It doesn't happen often. Two huge stars like Pacino and Deniro get together for a big movie, but that's Righteous Kill. Al Pacino and Robert Deniro star in this new police drama/murder mystery new in theaters this weekend.
These two play two NYC 30 year police detectives that have been partnered up for the majority of their time together on the force. They obviously are the dinosaurs of the department, and are struggling to maintain the edge that is paramount to being a great law enforcer. But the world is a different place than it was 30 years ago. They watch as the court system continually let them down and the skels they work so hard to arrest are walking free seemingly at will.
At times they take the law into their owns hands to get the "proper" result, and they cover up these "crimes" well. But suddenly out of nowhere a serial killer emerges killing off others that are bucking the legal system, and the search is on. Toss in some young cops who are thinking that our dinosaurs are the perpetrators, and you have RK.
I't always fun to see two big stars command the screen like these two, and make no mistake these two are the movie, end of story. RK, though for me looks more like a TV show on the big screen. One thing it seemed to lack was the "wow" factor of the movies, and the written parts for Pacino and Deniro were average at best. They are both good in RK, but this movie stops and ends with them together. Everything else around them is average at best, including the story itself.
There's nothing really wrong with RK. Should have been a lot better. A more compelling story line, and some snappier dialogue would have freshened things up a bit. But I will say, it is good to see the two of them on the screen together again.
Righteous Kill, hopefully will get the box office cranking again this early fall, after some really lean weeks at the movies. RK. Won't bore you to tears, and won't knock your socks off either. It's good, solid, salt of the earth movie making. Would have been nice to have a dash of cayenne pepper in it though for some added spice.
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