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this movie made me so sad and so angry!

i have been waiting my whole film-going life to see robert deniro and al pacino in a movie together.  ya we all know about The Godfather 2 and Heat (both great films), but they are on screen together for a few minutes in Heat and not at all in The Godfather 2, so Righteous Kill was going to be something special.  or at least that is what i hoped.  but like a kid that gets tube socks on christmas, i was so very disappointed.

i wasn't disappointed in deniro and pacino's performances.  they are both so smooth and have such presense on screen.  and watching them together gave me goosebumps.  if only the movie hadn't sucked so much!

and i will admit that i really wanted to love this film.  i wanted to say good things about it and i was willing to overlook some problems in order to do so, but this movie just wouldn't let me do that.  everytime i started to forgive something, something else crappy would come up.

i will say though, that therewas the germ of a good film here.  there were some moments of interesting ideas that looked liek the writer was trying to do something a little different then your typical cop film.  however, most of it was predictable and avnet made some real lame choices with the direction that frustrated me as well.