The new from Jon Avnet - Righteous Kill - brings together two of the screens giants: Al Pacino and Robert De Niro - unfortunately to not much avail. Saddled with a pedestrian script that seems more obssesed with creating a twist than investigating the relatiosnhip between its' main characters , Righteous Kill never goes further than a straight-to-dvd thriller. On top of it, the plotline is also imbued with a strangely misogynistic tone - the pne female character in the film is built up as some sort of 'weirdo' and treated with great contempt!
The stars are wasted during hammy buddy-buddy scenes and the only veteran actor who manages to come out of this average mess with his head high is Brian Dennehy who plays the lieatunant of the district the two cops work in.
Perhaps Righteous Kill is something to kill time with during a dry period but right now, just as the release train is gearing up towards Festival season here in London, it can go no further than being a waste of anyone's time.