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...Righteous Kill Directed by Jon Avnet; rated...
...years? Rooster describes retirement as "death with benefits." His work is his life, and he won't give either of them up. But a movie demands a little verisimilitude. Impolitic as it might be to make this observation, it's also unavoidable when talking about a movie like Righteous Kill: the camera is a remorseless appraiser of advancing...
...since, say, Dog Day Afternoon in 1975, he went the other way, playing the little guy who compensates by going big. It's a tactic more theatrical than cinematic, and Pacino usually makes it work by ensuring that he dominates any film he's in. A two-hander like Righteous Kill, though, demands teamwork. Pacino is still laying it all on the table; by playing more subtly, by demonstrating that being seen is often enough, De Niro underacts him under...
Thirteen years later, the same two actors have paired up for another R-rated crime drama, Righteous Kill, this time sharing almost every scene as veteran police partners pursuing a serial killer. But instead of a major studio, a young company called Overture Films is releasing the movie. And rather than giddy anticipation, advance press has included references to "How the mighty have fallen" (Los Angeles Times) and "Grumpy old cops" (MSNBC). (Read Richard Corliss' review here...
...industry's apathy toward Righteous Kill reveals both how badly the reputations of Pacino and De Niro have suffered in the past 13 years, and how fully the studios have abandoned the kind of pictures that made them stars. Righteous Kill is not a classic like The Godfather a or critical darling like Heat. It's a workaday crime thriller, opening in more than 3,100 theaters. But it's likely to be profitable for Overture, which is almost certain to recoup the more than $10 million investment it made in Righteous Kill at the Cannes Film Festival last year...