Righteous Kill
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Movie Reviews of Righteous Kill
Movie Review: A Righteous Man Stands Before Me
Summary: 4 Stars
It's Pacino and De Niro,
but do not forget Gugino!
Blue shield and gun consume their lives;
is it a righteous kill for which they strive?
Rooster and Turk, for Law they work.
Solving crime should not cause a smirk.
When the body count starts to grow,
clues foreshadow truth that begins to show.
Corpses poetic, lawmen prophetic,
killers's mood becomes frenetic?
Six shots and a Russian dares death.
Borders, friendship, and trust gulp their last breaths.
Supporting cast provides a blast.
Leguizamo's name, talent vast.
A villian cop, the trust betrayed,
the plot twist is simple, about fifth grade.
The great actors, aging they are.
Catch a glimpse of the dwindling stars.
With luck it's not their last hurrah,
four stars out of five - for this cast, it's par.
Movie Review: Third time for Alpacino and Deniro together, which always makes a good movie!
Summary: 4 Stars
Third time for Alpacino and Deniro together, which always makes a good movie!
First the Godfather, then Heat, and now Righteous Kill that has both Robert Deniro and Alpacino together.
Deniro and Alpacino are two homicide detectives that are nearing retirement. They are asked to investigate into serial killings of ex-convicts who escaped punishment due to cracks in the judicial system. As a result this killer wipes them off the streets.
Throughout the movie we watch a recorded tape of Deniro confessing his murders that try to make you think he is the mysterious killer, only for us to discover in the end that he is not.
Quite interesting movie. I just knew it all along that Deniro was not the killer. I thought there must be a twist in the end because it was too easy and direct. It came out to be the case afterall.
Movie Review: Childhood memories!
Summary: 4 Stars
Jon Avnet directed this shocking thriller with a visible approach to the documental style, giving us hints here and there that allow us to pick up the pieces of this complex and haunting story.
A serial killer is cleaning up the city from well known gangsters, corrupt collaborators but at the moment a priest is murdered, the film acquires a new dimension and the awful nightmare by this victim-executor, paves the way to build a solid and penetrating portrait.
It's useless to remark that both giants of acting like De Niro and Pacino ignite the screen with his well known gifts.
A not so original and much less innovative Noir but it surely will keep you hold to your seat. It made me remind to "Internal affairs" from the early Nineties.
Movie Review: Capital offenses, lots of them?
Summary: 4 Stars
Many years on the job and seeing things most people
wouldn't believe, a cop can turn bad (in a good way?).
How do you catch a cop who knows all the methods/
Anger and frustration in older people who have
spent their lives trying to do their best
and still see no real improvement: actually
it appears that the whole social situation has gotten worse,
not better? Here we have a tough and tougher pair of detectives
played by two of the best character actors of our time.
Again they make the grit of the police drama come home
in a way that hard to watch, but well acted, directed and written.
Movie Review: "Self-righteous Critics"
Summary: 4 Stars
Lambasted by the critics, "Righteous Kill" is actually a good movie with a clever story. Granted, I figured out who the real killer is early on, but that doesn't diminish the fact that this is a suspenseful cop thriller.
Perhaps the critics savaged "Righteous Kill" because of its politically incorrect dialogue, specifically in regards to women. In any case, it doesn't matter. What matters is this movie has an interesting story, top-notch actors in Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino, and hard-hitting action. I give it three and a half stars.
--Bryan Cassiday, author of "Fete of Death"