Righteous Kill

A pair of veteran New York City police detectives (Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino) are on the trail of a vigilante serial killer. After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but aren't. Before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before. Like the original murder, the victim is a suspected criminal whose body is found accompanied by a four line poem justifying the killing. When additional crimes take place, it becomes clear the detectives are looking for a serial killer, one who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. His mission is to do what the cops can't do on their own--take the culprits off the streets for good.

It would pretty much be impossible for me to not enjoy a movie with Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro in it. They played off each other exceptionally well. I thoroughly enjoyed the first hour and a half of this movie even though it was so beyond predictable where it was going. The movie kind of fell flat at the end though because apparantly the filmmakers thought that they had duped all of us and needed to completely drag out the end by explaining everything. The whole theater knew two minutes in to the movie how it was going to turn out, yet the script included a play by play replay. It would be like at the end of The Sixth Sense if they decided to spend twenty minutes going over how Bruce Willis was one of the dead people that the kid was seeing. It kind of ruins the holy $hit moment that makes the movie so good . . . . . and there wasn't even that kind of moment at the end of Righteous Kill yet they still found it necessary to talk about the swerve ending for twenty minutes. There - the rant is out of my system. Sorry about that. Even with all the negativity that I spewed towards this movie - I still actually found myself enjoying it.

I don't know whether to recommend this or not. I enjoyed it because like I said before - its Pacino and DeNiro, but it does pull up pretty lame.