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MadGez
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Righteous Kill
Righteous KillQuote: Righteous Kill is a 2008 crime thriller film with elements of a buddy cop film directed by Jon Avnet, and starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. Righteous Kill also features John Leguizamo, Carla Gugino, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Dennehy, and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. The film was released in the United States on September 12, 2008.
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The Mr Pink
What would Jesus *not* do?
Joined: Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:55 am Posts: 829 Location: Going Up the Down Escalator
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Re: Righteous Kill
This was truly awful bordering on abysmal. Pacino and De Niro have gotten OLD and it really shows. They have become sad parody's of themselves, wait Pacino played a parody of the Fonz in this, which was truly sad. The film really has no point or purpose as they tell you who the killer is in the first ten minutes and then spend the next 90+ minutes pretending they didn't tell you. Its one thing to make a bad movie but when they deliberately insult your intelligence while doing so its just plain wrong.
Grade F
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Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:00 am |
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Jim Halpert
Stanley Cup
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Re: Righteous Kill
I'm guessing De Niro is the killer
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Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:01 am |
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Thegun
On autopilot for the summer
Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:14 pm Posts: 21628 Location: Walking around somewhere
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Re: Righteous Kill
Jim Halpert wrote: I'm guessing De Niro is the killer The trailers made it obvious if it is
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Fri Sep 12, 2008 12:39 pm |
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Mr. Lobotomy
Well I'm not stoned, I'm just fucked up - I got so high I can't stand up
Joined: Tue Aug 12, 2008 3:21 am Posts: 993
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Re: Righteous Kill
The Mr Pink wrote: This was truly awful bordering on abysmal. Pacino and De Niro have gotten OLD and it really shows. They have become sad parody's of themselves, wait Pacino played a parody of the Fonz in this, which was truly sad. The film really has no point or purpose as they tell you who the killer is in the first ten minutes and then spend the next 90+ minutes pretending they didn't tell you. Its one thing to make a bad movie but when they deliberately insult your intelligence while doing so its just plain wrong.
Grade F Wow, I was schocked. And F? Hopefully I still like it, I'm really, really anticipating it.
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Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:12 pm |
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Chippy
KJ's Leading Pundit
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:45 pm Posts: 63026 Location: Tonight... YOU!
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Re: Righteous Kill
Pink...
You hate everything.
How do you get paid to see movies?!?
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Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:22 pm |
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Harry Warden
Orphan
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Re: Righteous Kill
The movie definitely isn't F-worthy but it's not nearly as good as it should have been with the cast assembled. Pacino gives the better performance here; DeNiro goes a little overboard at times. Donnie Wahlberg does a decent job but Carla Gugino gives a weak performance.
Grade: C+
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Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:55 pm |
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Razor
Waitress in LA
Joined: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:02 pm Posts: 24 Location: In the sewer.
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Re: Righteous Kill
Razor says this movie is awful save your money for something good. F
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The Mr Pink
What would Jesus *not* do?
Joined: Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:55 am Posts: 829 Location: Going Up the Down Escalator
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Re: Righteous Kill
Chip [Bot] wrote: Pink...
You hate everything.
How do you get paid to see movies?!? First, I DON'T hate everything, just shitty films like this. Loved, Burn After Reading Second, I'm a manager at a movie theatre
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Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:34 am |
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Mr. Lobotomy
Well I'm not stoned, I'm just fucked up - I got so high I can't stand up
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Re: Righteous Kill
He doesn't hate everything....
he hates almost everything. But I like how he's really strict with movies, someone needs to be.
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Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:58 pm |
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Mr. Lobotomy
Well I'm not stoned, I'm just fucked up - I got so high I can't stand up
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Re: Righteous Kill
Holy shit Mr. Pink I just noticed we have the same rank.
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Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:59 pm |
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The Mr Pink
What would Jesus *not* do?
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Re: Righteous Kill
Ev@n wrote: Holy shit Mr. Pink I just noticed we have the same rank. I picked it back in August.
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Mr. Lobotomy
Well I'm not stoned, I'm just fucked up - I got so high I can't stand up
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Re: Righteous Kill
The Mr Pink wrote: Ev@n wrote: Holy shit Mr. Pink I just noticed we have the same rank. I picked it back in August. Oh yeah? Well I picked it... a couple days ago. But that's only 'cause I didn't get to see TT till' last saturday
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Viper Rodgers
Leader of the Pack
Joined: Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:35 am Posts: 1526 Location: A better place
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Re: Righteous Kill
Yeah, this movie was just another run-of-the-mill attempt at a serial killer thriller... D+Here is a link to my review i wrote last week... http://nevadasagebrush.com/blog/2008/09/16/too-self-righteous-or-killer-performance/
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baumer72
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Re: Righteous Kill
Most will tell you that a good film has to start with the story. I happen to agree with that. Although this film's main selling point is seeing DeNiro and Pacino on screen together for more than six minutes in a coffee shop, if the story itself was weak, it might not work.
Righteous Kill is an interesting title that can illicit hours of discussion. When is a killing, or in this case, a murder, acceptable? As one of the heroes says in the film after discovering a rapist that had been shot, "You should give the guy a medal that did this." If you go by the Bible, then murder is never right. If you go by the Criminal Code murder is never right, but if you go by a morality code, then no one is going to cry over a child molester meeting his maker, or in this case, the bullet from a 57 Magnum. The story is the glue that holds the film together. Now add DeNiro and Pacino doing what they do best, and you have one of the years most interesting films.
Righteous Kill benefits from some fantastic performances. Not only are The Corleone Boys fun to watch but Donnie Wahlberg, Carla Gugino and especially John Leguizamo hold their own. Carla Gugino is both sexy and downright hateful with her performance as DeNiro's nymphomaniac sometimes girlfriend. But make no mistake about it, this is the DeNiro and Pacino show. In one intense scene, Pacino tells Wahlberg and Leguizamo when discussing a case he worked on, " Whatever you do, don't bring up the Randall case. If he walks, he dies. I'll put a bullet right between his eyes. You understand me?" While doing it, his gaze, his stare could melt steel. Pacino has been accused of over acting in the past, and that is fair, but this is one of his finest performances in quite sometime. This is reminiscent of Heat. DeNiro is equal to the task as he has some very intense scenes as well, mostly with Pacino.
The story itself has one red herring after the other but if you pay attention closely enough, you will probably figure out who the killer is in the first half hour. And that really doesn't take away from the duplicitous nature of the film. Suspects are introduced and then more possibilities arise. And along for the ride are DeNiro and Pacino, eating up the scenery together.
It's kind of sad really, back in the 50's and 60's you could count on big stars working together. Since the 80's it has been more of a rare feat. We never got to see Arnold and Sly in the same film and we never got to see other giants as well. Times are changing now when you have people like Brad Pitt and George Clooney in every other film together or with groups like "The Frat Pack." It might be 20 years too late to have these two legends on screen, but it still nice that they gave us this before one of them decides he doesn't want to do it anymore.
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Mr. Lobotomy
Well I'm not stoned, I'm just fucked up - I got so high I can't stand up
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Re: Righteous Kill
Very good. I don't know why everyone but Baumer's hatin' on it. Great twist at the end.
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Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:35 pm |
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Chippy
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Re: Righteous Kill
Ev@n wrote: Very good. I don't know why everyone but Baumer's hatin' on it. Great twist at the end.
B He gave it the same grade as you...
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Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:35 pm |
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Mr. Lobotomy
Well I'm not stoned, I'm just fucked up - I got so high I can't stand up
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Re: Righteous Kill
Chip [Bot] wrote: Ev@n wrote: Very good. I don't know why everyone but Baumer's hatin' on it. Great twist at the end.
B He gave it the same grade as you... Umm, yeah. Incase you can't read I said everyone but Baumer.
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Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:37 pm |
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BJ
Killing With Kindness
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Re: Righteous Kill
Chip [Bot] wrote: Pink...
You hate everything.
How do you get paid to see movies?!? Pink is well rounded, he hates dreck that sucks bad indeed.
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Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:54 am |
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Gulli
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Re: Righteous Kill
The novelty of seeing Pacino and De Niro together lasts about 5 minutes. This means the next 90 are torturous on the eyeballs. And the twist is so bloody obvious it make's old Hitler speeches look like exercises in subtlety in comparison
To call this a warmed up thriller would be insulting to faulty heating equipment.
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Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:58 am |
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Riggs
We had our time together
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Re: Righteous Kill
I don't have much interest in seeing this so can please someone spoil me the twist?
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Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:14 pm |
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trixster
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Re: Righteous Kill
Somehow even worse than I was expecting. Utterly incomprehensible and totally fucking boring. It's not even a warmed-up thriller; it's leftovers that have been left in the fridge for far too long. A total waste of everybody involved. Definitely the worst movie I've seen so far this year. Riggs wrote: I don't have much interest in seeing this so can please someone spoil me the twist? They make you think throughout the movie that De Niro is the killer, including playing a confession tape by him at intervals throughout the film. At the end it's revealed that Pacino made him read that confession, as he is the real killer. An ultra lame chase ensues and De Niro ends up killing Pacino. The confession tape is revealed to be part of the inquest into the murders at the end. De Niro gets off and gets the girl! Yayz!
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Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:06 pm |
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makeshift
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Re: Righteous Kill
I watched a clip of the sex scene between De Niro and Gugino and it is a blatant ripoff of Don't Look Now.
Just thought that was funny.
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Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:57 pm |
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Libs
Sbil
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:38 pm Posts: 48626 Location: Arlington, VA
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Re: Righteous Kill
makeshift wrote: sex scene between De Niro and Gugino. Ewww
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Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:43 pm |
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zingy
College Boy Z
Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:40 pm Posts: 36662
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Re: Righteous Kill
Good lord, this is fucking boring.
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