Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Jun 5, 2024 1/4

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.

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Jason Best What's On TV Nov 20, 2020

De Niro and Pacino back together but firing blanks.

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PJ Nabarro Patrick Nabarro Feb 22, 2019 2/5

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.

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Kaleem Aftab The List Nov 4, 2018 2/5

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

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Mar 9, 2017 C+

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

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Ali Gray TheShiznit.co.uk Oct 14, 2012 2/5

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

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Mark Holcomb Time Out Nov 18, 2011 2/5

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Sonny Bunch Washington Times Aug 30, 2009 1.5/4

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.

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Rob Humanick Projection Booth Jan 20, 2009 F

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

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Brian Holcomb CinemaBlend Jan 11, 2009 1.5/5

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?

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Joshua Katzman Chicago Reader Dec 9, 2008

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

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Nov 26, 2008 2/4

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

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Andy Klein Los Angeles CityBeat Nov 12, 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).

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Ben Mankiewicz At the Movies Nov 5, 2008

Nearly everything about this film is a cliché.

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Jason Matloff Boston Globe Oct 18, 2008 1.5/4

Say it ain't so, Bobby and Al.

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Scott Nash Three Movie Buffs Oct 18, 2008 2/4

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?

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Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Oct 18, 2008 1/5

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.

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James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk Oct 18, 2008 2/5

A derivative and increasingly silly crime thriller.

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James Verniere Boston Herald Oct 18, 2008 C

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