Righteous Kill

The promo of the film runs like this: ‘Most people respect the badge. Everybody respects the gun’. It should have been ‘Most people like to see big actors. Everybody prefers a good film.’

In what could be a passable film of the year, two NYPD veterans confuse the department while trailing a serial killer.

Turk (Robert De Niro) and Rooster (Al Pacino) who have worked as partners for 30 years are pushed to work with young detectives Perez, Riley and CSI Karen Corelli, when a serial killer starts killing bad guys after courts let them free due to ‘lack of evidence’.

But when all fingers point to Turk himself to be the killer, Rooster begins playing his own game.

As the suspense continues Jon Avnet shows us Turk’s confession through a grainy video which somewhat lacks credibility, only to know later that it is a part of the film’s climax.The supporting cast is good enough especially when you see Carla Gugino as a sex-crazed detective.

Leguizamo and Wahlberg are convincing as the young cops who believe Turk is behind the killings.

Though Righteous Kill is not the best it still has got the right ‘masala’ — big actors and a brilliant promo — to get you to the theatre.
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English (A)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, 50 Cent, Carla Gugino, John Leguizamo, Donnie Wahlberg
Director: Jon Avnet