Righteous Kill Critic Reviews
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Based upon 12 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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When actors are as great as De Niro and Pacino, watching them in a movie like Righteous Kill is deadly.Read the full review
It's not much fun to see these two reduced to "Mad TV" parodies of themselves.Read the full review
Righteous Kill's script is credited to "Inside Man's" Russell Gewirtz, and you wonder how the sleek, nuanced flow of that earlier movie evaded this one.Read the full review
Its failure to live up to even modest expectations is a blow. There's nothing righteous to be found here.Read the full review
Righteous Kill, a.k.a. The Al and Bob Show, is a cop flick with all the drama of "Law and Order: AARP." This movie defines drag-ass.Read the full review
A relatively harmless movie that becomes killing-a-mockingbird sinful for what it does to its leads.Read the full review
An ordinary cop picture boosted by two charismatic superstars but hindered by its dearth of surprises.Read the full review
A clutter of recycled cop-movie and serial-killer film clichés.Read the full review
Trudging through a thriller that would have felt warmed over in 1988, the pair investigate a serial killer.Read the full review
By the time the movie reaches its protracted conclusion, it feels like a slog. Pacino has a few funny lines, as does Leguizamo, but not nearly enough to save the film from collapsing under the weight of its own self-righteous tedium.Read the full review
