You Numb Nuts have to be joking!!
Added 10/26/2009
De Niro & Pacino were the movie they were awesome.
You people take movies way to serious, instead of trying
to enjoy them.
Non-stop action, suspence and had you goin one way and at the end
you find out you had it all backwards.
I give the movie a 5 of 5 stars.
If your a true fan of De Niro & Pacino you'll like it!!
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Righteous Kill is worth watching!
Added 10/12/2009
Two of my favorite actors side by side is exciting enough. I hever had a clue about the ending. I really enjoyed watching them act together and enjoyed the movie till the end. The ending is surprising and having them both together was worth the time and money to watch it. It appears that they acted their parts, they acted well but just watching these two veteran actors on the screen made it worth watching. They don't even have to try, to be my favorites.
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De Niro and Pacino, great combination!
Added 9/30/2009
A very solid drama movie! Wow! De Niro and Pacino are great in this movie! The story is about a cop who is a serial killer of those who "escape" traditional justice. Great characters and alot of suspense. Well worth the time to watch it.
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"The badge is nice . . . as long as it comes with a gun."
Added 9/14/2009
Before I saw this thriller, I kept hearing many mixed reviews about it. From James Berardinelli to Spill Reviews, most found it very average. I finally got a chance to watch this Righteous Kill, but with very moderate expectations. After the film was over, I found myself liking it. Not loving it, but liking it. It wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible, either. It was . . . between average and above average.
I think I'll start with the bad. I'm not a fan of Curtis Jackson (50 Cent), so I knew right away that his acting was wooden and dull. He doesn't even say most of his lines right; it sounds a bit like gibberish to me. Now, if Christopher Bridges (LUDA!) played Jackson's part, then it would have been far more engaging. Also, throughout the film, there are numerous cliches that we've all seen before (good cop bad cop, for example). If there was even a hint of originality, I would have given it a higher rating. The third flaw we have here is the plot twist. We already know that Turk (played by De Niro) is not the killer, so the major twist at the end wasn't shocking enough. Then, we have the script, which isn't really Grade A material. Some of the dialogue was pretty cheesy, and some scenes felt very uneven. And lastly, the sex scenes . . . they were very out-of-place and very unnecessary.
Now, here's the good. First we have De Niro and Pacino. I mean, DE NIRO & PACINO! In the classic film Heat, they were only onscreen together for about ten minutes. Here, these two guys share the screen almost throughout the movie. And although, as I mentioned before, the script is pretty average, De Niro and Pacino deliver their lines very well. The supporting cast (Dennehy, Wahlberg, Gugino, and Leguizamo) do a very fine job as well. Finally, there are a bit of references to Heat that can be found here, and while they are a bit too obvious, they're mildly decent at best.
Again, this is a thriller that's not great and not horrible. I give it a B- because, even though there were some crappy moments, it's still fun to watch Pacino and De Niro interact with each other. Jon Avnet is a good director, but he could have given a lot of things here some improvement. I hope he gets to make far more sophisticated films in the future.
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america's critic
Added 9/11/2009
by far this movie was entertain it was just how the trailer put it out to be--- from the looks of other reviews they must of wanted it to be action packed, this movie fooled me it was great it is deffenitly worth watching.
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Review of 88 Minutes
Added 10/12/2009
This is a fantastic movie. I love Al Pacino and this movie was not a dissapointment. Lots of action and suspense and until the end, I was held to my seat.
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88 minutes
Added 9/28/2009
Good movie, but when is Al pacino ever in a bad one. It was suspenseful and exciting. i recommend to anyone
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Tick Tock Al, It's The Sound Of Your Career Running Out
Added 9/25/2009
I love Al Pacino and have watched him in many a bad movie. Even when the film sucks, like this one kind of does, he does something to make it watchable and entertaining for fans. Here he plays forensic psychologist Jack Gramm. In addition to his medical practice, Jack teaches a criminal studies class at a local college. He's a a bit of a ladies man after hours keeping company with call girls, his students (Alicia Witt and Lelee Sobieski), his secretary (Amy Brenneman) and even the dean of the college (Deborah Kara Ungar). It was Jack's crucial testimony years earlier that earned a rapist (Neal McDonough) the death penalty. On the day of the execution, Jack awakes to find a man on a motorcycle outside his house. When he arrives at work he sees that the motorcyclist has followed him. He then gets a call on his cell phone in which someone tells him he has only 88 minutes left to live. Jack starts an investigation that has his put upon gay secretary (Brenneman) making about a hundred phone calls and checking the records of the prison, his students, the woman he was with last night and so on and so forth. Jack is clueless as to who is taunting him and his paranoia causes him to run around campus like a madman snatching cell phones away from terrified students. Teaming up with one of his students (Witt), Jack attempts to prove that the murderer he put away is behind this latest threat. The film takes place in real time once Jack is threatened but it's never all that suspenseful. Jack takes the news in stride and he and Witt go to his apartment and basically chill for a half hour until he gets another phone call telling him where to go. Once the person's identity is revealed there have been so many ridiculous twists and turns that the film becomes laughable. The best scene involves an exasperated Jack yelling at an FBI guy (William Forsythe) who believes Jack is behind it all. "Did I blow up my own car? Did I shoot bullets at myself?", Jack yells. (His explanation of how his "DNA" came to be found on a murder victim is also pretty funny). Hell, in the bonus features Pacino admits that much of the film is illogical but that he was still attracted to the material for whatever reason. He says he had a good time making it but that doesn't guarantee that fans will have a good time watching it. The film was made way back in 2005 and shelved for nearly three years. It was directed by Jon Avnet who would reunite Pacino and DeNiro months later in 'Righteous Kill', another ridiculous film, but one that is much more entertaining than this one.
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