Movies Daily by Zach Cannon

Apple has the first two trailers for the much-anticipated De Niro-Pacino flick Righteous Kill. The two play partners on the NYPD who investigate a series of murders of notorious criminals. Because that’s too simple, or too similar to TV’s Dexter, the killer also leaves four-line poems that justify the killings. The trailers indicate that the killer could be a cop, while the synopsis on Apple hints that it’s all connected to a case from years ago and the partners may have put the wrong man behind bars way back when. GASP!

The film looks interesting, if not a little formulaic, like the kind of film that you’d catch on USA a few years after it’s initial release, but wouldn’t really rush to see in theaters. Judge for yourself and watch it here .

An interesting note: Pacino has said he took the role because he wanted to work with De Niro and the two look like they have good chemistry together. It might be worth seeing just for their team-up; they share more screen time together in just one of these trailers than they did in all of Heat and Godfather: Part II combined.

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