Given the downright sloppiness of the storytelling and squashed hopes that De Niro and Pacino might electrify the screen again, Righteous Kill is hugely disappointing.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 5, 2024

…the only thing these Oscar-ized actors are looking for is a paycheck. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 11, 2022

De Niro and Pacino back together but firing blanks.

| Nov 20, 2020

A serial killer movie without any threat, a cop thriller going through the motions, and De Niro and Pacino seem blunted by the piece's overall lack of bite.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 22, 2019

There's nothing virtuous about Righteous Kill -- it's as predictable as summer rain.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2018

The stars were handed inferior material to work with and, at best, can only make this tired plot watchable.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 9, 2017

A murky, muddled, miserable mess, Righteous Kill spends 101 minutes failing to achieve what Heat managed in just six.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 14, 2012

| Original Score: B- | Feb 18, 2012

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

The worst about Righteous Kill is that there's probably a perfectly acceptable procedural thriller somewhere in the mountain of cliches and stupidity that riddle the film.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 30, 2009

As far as bad movies go, Righteous Kill is something of a zenith.

| Original Score: F | Jan 20, 2009

Pacino. DeNiro. Armed and dangerous. In a cop drama. In NYC. Together. Written by the writer of Inside Man. Sounds great, doesn't it? Well, what could've gone so wrong?

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 11, 2009

This thriller by Jon Avnet is mostly by the numbers, and its surprise ending, though effective, feels somewhat forced.

| Dec 9, 2008

...the phrase phoning-it-in was practically invented for Pacino and De Niro's work here...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 26, 2008

Russell Gewirtz's script is built around a trick, one that is simultaneously too clever by half and not clever at all (which itself is quite a trick).

Full Review | Nov 12, 2008

Nearly everything about this film is a cliché.

Full Review | Nov 5, 2008

Say it ain't so, Bobby and Al.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

There's nothing righteous about this tired and tiresome good cop/bad cop NYPD procedural from Avnet; in fact, it's pretty much an abomination from the get-go.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2008

So somebody finally got De Niro and Pacino to co-star in a movie together and this is the best they could come up with?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2008

A derivative and increasingly silly crime thriller.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008