Righteous Kill Critic Reviews

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

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

When actors are as great as De Niro and Pacino, watching them in a movie like Righteous Kill is deadly.Read the full review

Unable or unwilling to match the visceral chops and moral provocations of superior serial-killer chillers, Righteous Kill is content to be a twisty genre exercise; it's like "Seven" as reimagined by M. Night Shyamalan.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

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

It's astonishing how much intensity and focus these two have lost, but the picture itself is not all that bad -- if you can get the collapsing-career thing out of your head.Read the full review