Righteous Kill
Most people respect the badge. Everybody respects the gun.
After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but aren't. Before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before.
Like the original murder, the victim is a suspected criminal whose body is found accompanied by a four line poem justifying the killing. When additional crimes take place, it becomes clear the detectives are looking for a serial killer, one who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. His mission is to do what the cops can't do on their own - take the culprits off the streets for good. The similarities between the recent killings and their earlier case raise a nagging question: Did they put the wrong man behind bars?
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Big stares, mediocre movie - easyHwolf
Watch it once then you can say you've seen it. It didn't really matter who the actors could have been, this movie's plot is not really that inspiring.
The trailer for this movie makes it seem really enticing but it falls flat on expectations.
I found the special features part more interesting than the movie itself.Could have been much better..... - Cricri7
Righteous kill won't go down in history even though Al Pacino And Robert De Niro team up in it. It tells the story of 2 cops and the suspicion that one of them is a serial killer that gets rid of "bad" people" the justice system could not get rid of. This movie is filled with excellent actors so I am wondering why it wasn't better. You get the sense that they rushed the movie when they lined up all the actors but they did not have the best scrip. They should have waited a bit more because it could have been way better than this.Go in with moderate expectations - Poet
The problem this film had was that most movie goers and movie critics were hoping that De Niro and Pacino were going to recreate their past greatness. Unfortunately, that is not possible. It would be like asking the Stones to make another Sticky Fingers or asking Zeppelin to recreate IV and their other great albums.
You have to take this movie for what it is: A good cop film with a great twist at the end. It's gritty and dark, yes; but, what is wrong with that?
I did not expect to see Taxi Driver or Serpico here. I was just hoping for some entertainment from two of the greats. and, i did get that!
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Big stares, mediocre movie - easyHwolf
Watch it once then you can say you've seen it. It didn't really matter who the actors could have been, this movie's plot is not really that inspiring.
The trailer for this movie makes it seem really enticing but it falls flat on expectations.
I ...Could have been much better..... - Cricri7
Righteous kill won't go down in history even though Al Pacino And Robert De Niro team up in it. It tells the story of 2 cops and the suspicion that one of them is a serial killer that gets rid of "bad" people" the justice system could not get rid of. This ...Go in with moderate expectations - Poet
The problem this film had was that most movie goers and movie critics were hoping that De Niro and Pacino were going to recreate their past greatness. Unfortunately, that is not possible. It would be like asking the Stones to make another Sticky Fingers or ...