Minneapolis Righteous Kill

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Genre: Drama
Release Date: 09/12/2008
Running Time: 101 mins
Director: Jon Avnet
Cast: Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo, Carla Gugino, Dan Futterman, Donnie Wahlberg, Rob Dyrdek, Trilby Glover
Producer: Alexandra Milchan, Daniel Rosenberg, Randall Emmett, Rob Cowan, Avi Lerner, Jon Avnet
Writer: Russell Gewirtz
Distributor: Overture Films
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Righteous Kill

Where once the decline of Robert De Niro's and Al Pacino's prodigious talent inspired howls of anguish and impassioned critical essays, it's a sad state of affairs when the best news about Righteous Kill, the cop thriller that stars them both, is that it isn't awful. New York City tough-guy detectives Turk (De Niro) and Rooster (Pacino) are investigating a serial killer who's bumping off heinous criminals acquitted by the judicial system, but suspicion soon turns to the detectives themselves. Screenwriter Russell Gewirtz's first script was another New York crime drama, Spike Lee's crackerjack Inside Man, which featured a slew of well-drawn characters as clever as the story's twists. But Righteous Kill (directed by journeyman Jon Avnet) jettisons most of the wit for macho bluster and a surprise you can see coming down the turnpike. While there's no point commenting that De Niro and Pacino are playing calcified versions of their once-great selves, at least Pacino is more reserved than usual—a welcome change. But between the film's police-procedural minutiae and trite thematic concerns (the weight of Catholic guilt, the thin moral line between cop and crook), Righteous Kill isn't so much bad as it is played out. No wonder the film's faded stars seem to fit right in. — Tim Grierson