Righteous Kill
Righteous Kill is a gritty New York crime drama starring two big apple fixtures not to mention movie star legends Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Even though both seem a little jowly to still be packing a badge for the NYPD instead of collecting a pension they both bring their A game to a couple of dirty cop characters. Turk (De Niro) has a hair trigger temperament but is very obliging when it comes to the kinky peccadilloes of his girlfriend Karen (Carla Gugino). He’s the junior partner to Rooster (Pacino) who has an air of less volatility and more wisdom. In the past this team has not been above tampering with evidence so that the unpunished get their just rewards. When they’re assigned the case of a serial killer it starts to look like the bad guy is actually one of New York’s finest. With a grainy video featuring Turk as the talking head owning up to the killings popping up on screen it’s easy to see why the audience followed by fellow detectives Perez (John Leguizamo) and Riley (Donnie Wahlberg) not to mention their superior Lieutenant Hingis (the long absent Brian Dennehy) suspect that Turk is the culprit. Of course with every shred of evidence pointing to Turk it seems too pat that he’s the guy. Guilty or not it’s why the culprit feels righteous in the killing that keeps you hanging in till the end.