An average movie

When I first heard about this flick, that Robert De Niro and Al Pacino would finally work again together again more than 10 years after the legendary ‘Heat’, of course, I was excited and really eager to check the damned thing. Indeed, even though ‘Heat’ was really neat, De Niro and Pacino had only 1 or 2 scenes together which was rather frustrating and, with this movie, they would finally share some good screen time together. Unfortunately, the whole thing turned out to be rather disappointing. I mean, De Niro and Pacino were both pretty awesome and it was really neat to have them together but the story was nothing really interesting or original. Indeed, I thought it was rather lazy and the rather predictable twist at the end didn’t help either. At the end of the day, it seems that this collaboration just came too late in their career. Indeed, by now, both actors seem to have lost their sparkle and most of their recent movies were rather forgettable. If they would have made this in the 70’s or in the 80’s, when they were at the top of their game, it would have been probably pretty awesome but it wasn’t meant to be, I’m afraid. Anyway, to conclude, even though the whole thing was watchable, I think my rating is actually rather generous but I guess it is worth a look, at least, if you seriously lower your expectations.