the audience applauded

Lack of good storyline.

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

I admit I was excited when the cast of this movie was announced and even more so when I heard Robert De Niro and Al Pacino would be on screen together most of the movie. But when it came to the movie I was very disappointed as the plot was weak and bizarre and having both main actors playing heroes who were close friends didn't work. Why Michael Mann's Heat worked was the plot wasn't overly complicated and De Niro and Pacino played mortal enemies on opposite sides of the law. To describe this movie would be to call it the antitheses of Heat, a slow paced lame duck which promised much but failed to deliver, what a let down.

Usually, I'm not a big fan of the "cop drama" genre. In "Righteous Kill", however, the presence of Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and a plot line that keeps you guessing until the end really held my interest throughout.For a basic plot summary, "Righteous Kill" focuses on the harsh, seedier morality aspects of the NYPD. Front and center are detective partners Rooster (Pacino) & Turk (De Niro), who investigate a series of murders that test the boundaries of objectivity and emotional investment in a case. To say any more would give away potential spoilers.The main reason this film succeeds is because it keeps the viewer guessing the whole way through. It never bogs down or stagnates at any point, as the narrative continues to push forward in interesting and creative ways. Again, I could say more but am loathe to give away the "concept" of the overall film.Of course, the acting from Pacino & De Niro is terrific. Both play their roles perfectly and slip into the kind of chemistry and dialogue they have been providing moviegoers for decades (e.g. the De Niro attitude; the Pacino speeches, etc.).Those who revel in the "cop morality" issues will even rate this film much higher than myself, as it tries to examine the meaning behind being a cop.Overall, this is a good cop flick that even skeptics of the genre can enjoy due to the terrific acting & engaging storyline.

I started my collegiate career in Criminal Justice at the University of Houston Downtown. I thought I could help my community. I thought I would work with others who "care". I wanted to make a difference.This movie hit me in places in my soul that I forgot existed. A young woman with stars in her eyes and a heart to care for others more than she did for her own life and safety. A girl who would give up her life to make a better world for others. During classes, I saw that those others would kill cops like me without a second thought. In fact, it was cops exactly like me who ended up dead by those they were seeking to help.The long term prognosis for being a cop never turns out okay. At the end of the career, after the watch has been given...you go off to what? Coffee and newspapers at the local IHOP where Marjorie brings you your eggs. Then you go home and what? Be alone...go to sleep alone, watch TV alone, eat dinner alone and try not to remember what you saw over your career. Well, yes, if you are lucky.Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro...they are some kind of actors...actors who tell the stories written by writers about people most of us will never know. People living their lives each moment the best they can. This movie shows how incredibly complex this life is...Makes me wonder about the cop sitting across from me at Starbuck's...he doesn't know that we may have seen the same documentaries about the vocation. He went on to put on the badge, I went on to process debits and credits. I am posting to general ledger and he processes perpetrators on a daily basis.This is another aspect of this movie...when you are judgmental you always make the wrong call. What is reality? What decision is the best decision? How to you make the best decision when you have seconds to decide? How do you judge on the street, all hours of the morning to prevent crime of just take a report of the crime in the after math? Can you stop a train from going off the tracks when that train is YOU? It's torture but it is a fabulous, fabulous movie. Thank you to Robert DeNiro, 50 Cent, and Al Pacino along with every single person who helped to make this movie a reality. I applaud you. You made me remember an aspect of me that I forgot ever existed; Poets are dangerous. Well Done.

Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Carla Gugino, John Leguizamo, Donnie Wahlberg and Brian Dennehy star in this 2008 crime thriller. This focuses on New York veteran cops, Turk (De Niro) and his partner, Rooster (Pacino) who pursue a serial killer who leaves poems on each of his victims who have committed crimes. Leguizamo (Spawn) and Wahlberg (Saw II) play cops, Perez and Riley who suspect that the killer could be a cop. Soon, the evidence points to Turk who knows the victims and it could be him or someone else revealed to be the killer. Dennehy (Cocoon) plays Hingis and Gugino (Sin City) plays Karen who is Turk's girlfriend. This isn't as good as "Heat," but not bad and it's nice to see De Niro and Pacino together again. I recommend this.