Righteous Kill

Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, 50 Cent, John Leguizamo, and Donnie Wahlberg

RIGHTEOUS KILL is the long-awaited sequel to HEAT featuring arguably two of the greatest, most intense actors of your parents' generation. Just kidding about the sequel part.

The movie was about these two on-the-way-out detectives trying to solve a bunch of serial killings connected by its violence, guns, and poems left at the scenes. A moral dilemma is presented early on which affects latter chain of events in the movie. The acting, as expected, was top-notch. It even surprisingly rubbed off on 50. Pacino was cracking me up the whole movie with his one-liners and his over-the-top acting. De Niro was his usual succinct, intense self.

Along with our protagonists trying to solve the murders, you, the viewer, must try to decipher what the hell is going on, too. I find that the older I get, the more I find myself rewinding $hit 'cause I can't understand what the hell's going on. It's not that it's hard to figure out. I guess when it comes down to it, I try to understand how everything is connected, so I end up confusing myself. Let's blame it on the OCD.

Good movie despite some nitpicky negative reviews. I think when you get two Goliaths together everyone expects the best movie ever made. It was still better than most. Kept me watching. Wasn't boring. Wahlberg and Leguizamo were funny, too.

If you like cop movies, you'll like this one. I give this movie two screen legends still burning up the screen with their intensity. Pretty impressive...