“De Niro. Pacino. What else do tu need to know?” That’s the minimalist message the Righteous Kill commercials present you. What else indeed? The De Niro/Pacino tag team is a movie lover’s wet dream, the unification of two forces of nature, that has occurred only once before in cinematic history in Michael Mann’s classic Heat. (The Godfather Part II doesn’t count). So significant was this occurrence that many cinephiles chose to forgo the use of B.C. and A.D. to denote the passing of time and opted instead to refer to history as simply “pre-Heat” and “post-Heat.” Here in...
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