| Original Score: B- | Feb 18, 2012

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

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

| Dec 9, 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

Righteous Kill is not particularly good. With any other stars involved, this would be swept under the carpet like any other mediocre procedural. But even with the big guys on board, it's a giant let-down.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2008

Instead, it's a rather pompous, disappointing one, and a squandered opportunity to boot.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2008

The movie goes nowhere and takes 100 minutes to do so. It should have cut its losses, gone for comedy and called itself Grumpy Old Cops.

| Sep 26, 2008

And so the film trundles on. A preposterously booming score just serves to emphasise the clichéd script, sound design and cinematography.

| Sep 26, 2008

They require a bigger stage, a sharper script and a more rigorous director. Without these, the long-awaited De Niro/Pacino show amounts to nothing so much as a novelty bout, a celebrity sparring session. Its sound and fury signifies very little.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2008

The plot is irrelevant because the film is utterly infatuated with the two big egos.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2008

They look like jobbing veteran actors picking up another payday in some routine cop filler, and Avnet's busily clueless direction offers them and the clunky writing little help. Pacino. De Niro. It's over.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Sep 26, 2008

Righteous Kill is a rote and lumbering thriller that forgets to supply any thrills, and which hangs on the revelation of a twist so obvious that tension dissipates long before the so-called big reveal.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2008

The movie is hectic, exhausting, and baffling.

| Sep 22, 2008

Righteous Kill isn't so much bad as it is played out. No wonder the film's faded stars seem to fit right in.

| Sep 18, 2008

It's not much fun to see these two reduced to Mad 온라인카지노추천 parodies of themselves. In the right movie, they'd stop coasting on their legends long enough to remind us how they became them.

| Original Score: D | Sep 17, 2008

Here's what I took away from Righteous Kill, the grade Z cop thriller...: If you can come up with the scratch, Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino will do anything: kid's parties, bar mitzvahs, retirement luncheons, you name it.

| Sep 12, 2008

In the end, neither actor can muster the energy to rise above the subpar material.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 12, 2008

Director Jon Avnet generously puts the actors together as often as possible, and the sheer satisfaction of watching Michael Corleone and Travis Bickle spark off each other almost mitigates the utter hokum that permeates every other element of the film.

| Sep 12, 2008

What a waste.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 12, 2008