Righteous Kill
Detectives Thomas Cowan (Robert De Niro) and David Fisk (Al Pacino), 30-year veterans of the NYPD, investigate the murder of a pimp, who appears to have ties to a case they solved years before.
16 February 1938, New York City, New York, USA
28 June 1974, Kettering, Ohio, USA
19 May 1973, Warsaw, Poland
20 September 1931, New York City, New York, USA
26 August 1967, Arzamas-16, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Sarov, Nizhegorodskaya oblast, Russia]
January 11, 2009
Pacino. DeNiro. Armed and dangerous. In a cop drama. In NYC. Together. Written by the writer of Inside Man. Sounds great, doesn't it? Well, what could've gone so wrong?
October 18, 2008
There's nothing righteous to be found here.
December 09, 2008
This thriller by Jon Avnet is mostly by the numbers, and its surprise ending, though effective, feels somewhat forced.
October 14, 2012
A murky, muddled, miserable mess, Righteous Kill spends 101 minutes failing to achieve what Heat managed in just six.
October 18, 2008
Say it ain't so, Bobby and Al.
August 30, 2009
The worst about Righteous Kill is that there's probably a perfectly acceptable procedural thriller somewhere in the mountain of cliches and stupidity that riddle the film.
September 26, 2008
They look like jobbing veteran actors picking up another payday in some routine cop filler, and Avnet's busily clueless direction offers them and the clunky writing little help. Pacino. De Niro. It's over.
February 01, 2009
Imagine this conversation: A phone call between actor Bob De Niro and director Marty Scorsese. Bobby: Hello, Marty. I've been calling and texting, but you never answer. (Silence) Bobby: I'm talking to you. Are you talkin' to me? Are you talkin' to me?
October 18, 2008
The movie, which has more than 10 credited producers, feels like one of those slick, for-the-money projects Hollywood studios cook up via graph charts and marketing surveys.
January 20, 2009
As far as bad movies go, Righteous Kill is something of a zenith.
March 09, 2017
The stars were handed inferior material to work with and, at best, can only make this tired plot watchable.
November 05, 2008
Nearly everything about this film is a cliché.
