“De Niro. Pacino. What else do you need to know?” That’s the minimalist message the Righteous Kill commercials present you. What else indeed? The De Niro/Pacino tag team is a movie lover’s wet dream, the unification of two forces of nature, that has occurred only once before in cinematic history in Michael Mann’s classic Heat. (The Godfather Part II doesn’t count). So significant was this occurrence that many cinephiles chose to forgo the use of B.C. and A.D. to denote the passing of time and opted instead to refer to history as simply “pre-Heat” and “post-Heat.” Here in the post-Heat year 13 (2008 for the layperson) it seems that lightning is set to strike twice in the same spot, as director Jon Avnet brings together the two titans of method acting once again in the same film. De Niro. Pacino. What else do you need to know? Well, for one thing, you need to know that Righteous Kill will need to milk the legacy for all its worth because it’s not a good enough film to offer anything else.
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