Feb 21 2009
The Righteous Kill
The Righteous Kill, this it the movie that brings DeNiro and Pacino together again but this time they share the entire movie together, awesome idea. To bad they chose a script that was out of a second hand detective novel in a Family Dollar store. The story could have been so much better, but here we have a serial killer hunting down evildoers in New York. Oh Gee, that’s a new one and of course one of our main cast is the perpetrator but which one. Who cares? We want to see the on-screen chemistry between the two leads which never quite happens. Even in the final moments of the film, the acting is there but it’s just not memorable. The fifteen minutes in HEAT where DeNiro and Pacino were just sitting and talking in a diner had more sizzle then this entire film. I actually started to laugh at one point when Curtis Jackson actually gets thrown out a window, the reason why the way the stuntman fell out the window actually looked like he was flying. This was a poor movie if I’m laughing instead of gasping at the scary parts. Plus you kind of know early on, who the killer is, because it’s insinuated that DeNiro is the killer because he’s giving a confession into a camera, but we all know that would be too easy. Very disappointing, the two of them should have been fighting terrorists or battling drug lords. I’m afraid we’re not going to see the two of them in a movie again for a long time. They’ll probably make a movie like Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas did when they were in there seventies (TOUGH GUYS). Carla Gugino, plays a cop as well in the film and we will be seeing her in tight spandex real soon in the WATCHMEN.
