A movie starring Al Pacino AND Robert deNiro? Could it go wrong at all?? When I read about Righteous Kill I was fascinated because I like both actors very much. Yesterday finally I was able to watch that movie. Here is the story in brief:
The film begins with a scene in which the police investigator Turk seems to confess that he has killed fourteen people. In a flashback those acts are fractionally shown.
Turk and his colleague Rooster are working as police officers in New York City. They investigate a murder case and find out that there are similarities to a previous case on which they were working some years before. At that time the killer was arrested. Turk and Rooster now are suspicious if the arrested person at that time really was the killer or if it was a serial killer who is now active again.
During the new investigations it is getting more and more clear that the killer must have been a policeman. Finally Turk gets the logical target of the investigation, because he was involved in the investigations of nearly every murder case.
So much for the story. To make it short: Good actors - poor story book. There is a real surprise at the end of the film...none of us expected it to end like this. But generally there are too many stereotypes for me: the black drug dealer (50 Cent) the stupid blonde, the Macho-Latino...it is all in here!
With this setup and the good idea, it could have been a perfect movie. But all that is left in the end is the pleasure to see really cool and professional actors like Pacino and DeNiro playing theie roles with a 100%.
Nice movie to watch but nothing spectacular.
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