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Christopher Orr, The New Republic: Here's what I took away from Righteous Kill, the grade Z cop thriller...: If you can come up with the scratch, Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino will do anything: kid's parties, bar mitzvahs, retirement luncheons, you name it. Read more
Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine: There's no meat in Jon Avnet's generic cop thriller, not even the pleasure of Pacino's ham. Read more
Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies: Nearly everything about this film is a cliche. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: It's not that the crime thriller Righteous Kill is spectacularly awful. It's just thoroughly mediocre - a standard police procedural, a long episode of Law & Order, unremarkable but for the pairing of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. Read more
Joshua Katzman, Chicago Reader: This thriller by Jon Avnet is mostly by the numbers, and its surprise ending, though effective, feels somewhat forced. Read more
Mark Rahner, Seattle Times: What a waste. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: The novelty of watching De Niro and Pacino team up wears off pretty quickly. Read more
Jason Matloff, Boston Globe: Say it ain't so, Bobby and Al. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It's not much fun to see these two reduced to Mad TV parodies of themselves. In the right movie, they'd stop coasting on their legends long enough to remind us how they became them. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Pacino is careful to rein in his bad habits in such company, and De Niro is De Niro; neither, however, can do much with material this trite. So, watching them, we're really seeing, and applauding, the ghosts of roles past. Read more
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: In every way that matters (indeed, in just about every way a movie can), Righteous Kill fails to deliver. Read more
Tim Grierson, L.A. Weekly: Righteous Kill isn't so much bad as it is played out. No wonder the film's faded stars seem to fit right in. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: The movie is hectic, exhausting, and baffling. Read more
Bob Mondello, NPR.org: A slack, morally ambiguous, decidedly sub-'Dexter' serial-killer-cop story. Read more
New York Daily News: How not to dig into the experience of seeing two of cinema's greatest legends working side by side? Well, first we could focus on the plot: Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Al Pacino and Robert De Niro collect bloated paychecks with intent to bore in Righteous Kill, a slow-moving, ridiculous police thriller that would have been shipped straight to the remainder bin at Blockbuster if it starred anyone else. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Everybody involved has earned a more righteous, movie and righteous director, than this. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: A twisty, turny and ultimately silly thriller. Read more
Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon.com: Director Jon Avnet generously puts the actors together as often as possible, and the sheer satisfaction of watching Michael Corleone and Travis Bickle spark off each other almost mitigates the utter hokum that permeates every other element of the film. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: In the end, neither actor can muster the energy to rise above the subpar material. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Enduring a contrived and convoluted crime drama would be worthwhile if it featured powerhouse performances from the two best screen actors of their generation. Such is not the case. Read more
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: Taken purely on its merits as a psychological thriller, Righteous Kill is probably a two-star film. The third star is there strictly for De Niro and Pacino. Playing off each other, they stir up the ghosts of past greatness. Read more
Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: The power couple's onscreen chemistry, which should be the film's strongest calling card, is merely adequate, a major disappointment for those expecting a tug o' war between screen titans. Read more
Trevor Johnston, Time Out: They look like jobbing veteran actors picking up another payday in some routine cop filler, and Avnet's busily clueless direction offers them and the clunky writing little help. Pacino. De Niro. It's over. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Pacino has a few funny lines, as does Leguizamo, but not nearly enough to save the film from collapsing under the weight of its own self-righteous tedium. Read more
Neely Tucker, Washington Post: It's astonishing how much intensity and focus these two have lost, but the picture itself is not all that bad -- if you can get the collapsing-career thing out of your head. Read more