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Movie: Righteous Kill
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I saw a trailer for a movie that, from the trailer, seemed an awful lot like my fic Predator. Today I finally got to see the movie in question.
Sadly, it's not enough like Predator that I can sue them for plagiarism of my fanfic; on the bright side I'm glad about that because the movie plot has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. (The trailer still freaks me out, though and it would have been kinda cool if I could say Pacino and De Niro were in a story I wrote.)
The movie isn't especially good. It could have been: the premise is a good one but the script isn't as clever as the writer thinks. You can see the so-called twist coming a mile away, and like I said, there are a lot of plot-holes. Like, why bother with all that investigation when all they really needed to solve the case was a good handwriting analyst?
Still, it's worth a DVD rental, if only to see the two leads on a screen together. I'm not a huge Pacino fan, but De Niro is really good.
Oh, and for SPN fen, our very own Sterling K Brown is also in it, as one of the investigating cops.
Sadly, it's not enough like Predator that I can sue them for plagiarism of my fanfic; on the bright side I'm glad about that because the movie plot has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. (The trailer still freaks me out, though and it would have been kinda cool if I could say Pacino and De Niro were in a story I wrote.)
The movie isn't especially good. It could have been: the premise is a good one but the script isn't as clever as the writer thinks. You can see the so-called twist coming a mile away, and like I said, there are a lot of plot-holes. Like, why bother with all that investigation when all they really needed to solve the case was a good handwriting analyst?
Still, it's worth a DVD rental, if only to see the two leads on a screen together. I'm not a huge Pacino fan, but De Niro is really good.
Oh, and for SPN fen, our very own Sterling K Brown is also in it, as one of the investigating cops.
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It reminded you of "Predator"?
*intrigued*
I know it did not get very good reviews here.
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The trailer did. A serial killer who kills only bad guys (just like Jim in Predator); the investigating police realising the killer may be a cop himself (just like Jim in Predator); the killer using his badge to gain entry to a victim's apartment (just like Jim in Predator) and the evidence pointing to one of the investigation team.
The film itself does have some things in common with Predator but it's not that close. The relationship between the two lead characters does remind me a lot of the Jim/Simon friendship in my fic, but that's fairly typical of cops-on-screen, so no surprise.
(In a way, that's where the casting lets the story down. If they'd cast a couple of young-ish, good looking actors it would be a highly slashable pairing. I dunno about De Niro, but I really don't see Al Pacino as slashable.)
In Predator the twist is there is no twist: the reader expects Jim to be innocent, so when it turns out he's not, it's shocking even though the very first scene gives away that it's Jim. That's the cool thing about fanfic: you can play with the fans' expectations. The movie doesn't have that advantage, so the "twist" ending is kinda obvious well before you get there.
I know it did not get very good reviews here.
It's getting bad reviews because it's Pacino and De Niro but it's not as good as Godfather 2. Which...well, duh. Critics can be idiots sometimes.
This isn't exactly classic cinema but it does what it says on the tin: it's a decent gritty cop-drama, well acted, well shot - worth a watch, just maybe better seen on TV than the big screen.