This movie just came up on my radar tonight. I’m not usually one to get all excited about true-to-life cop dramas, Street Kings looks interesting, but I can get these stories by living in the wrong neighborhoods twenty miles from where I’m currently falling asleep. Granted The Departed wasn’t too bad, but Boston is still another world to me. A good friend of mine, Willwindow, and I were talking about our experiences with stories, and he said something that really resonated with me. I have to paraphrase, but the sentiment was something along the idea of being only attracted to stories that take you somewhere. Basically, I ride the story, willfully dropping myself into it, and so if the story is about something I could experience, realistically, in my own life, I tend to not enjoy my experience with it.
Anyway, enough about me, this film shares a running theme I’ve noticed in cop dramas lately; a bent toward vigilante justice being the only way to get justice. Righteous Kill differs from the ones above by having two very talented actors, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. The feel I get from the trailer is that this film actually has something to say, and isn’t just an angst-ridden statement against authority. Anyway, enjoy…
Didst mine eyes deceive me, or did I see Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson up in this mug? Al Pacino is just awesome. I agree with Coffee, this movie looks like it would take me on a ride. Most of us walk around every day mentally slapping our hands every time we get an impulse to do something “inappropriate.” Movies like this let us “experience” what it might be like to just do it. I feel like this is both good and bad—cathartic and dangerous.