Raging Bull

WORST! Robert De Niro and Al Pacino: Remember Michael Mann's virtuoso Los Angeles crime saga "Heat"? A masterwork that managed to be sprawling while taut and thrilling, luminously stylish while exceptionally emotional and extraordinarily acted, it was also the movie that teamed... more Robert De Niro and Al Pacino face-to-face for the first time. And we were excited, incredibly excited, even if the talented titans shared only one scene together. So you'd think that a mere 13 years wouldn't have erased the thrill of watching two legends, two stars of classics like "Raging Bull" and "The Godfather," two men who can yell and smolder and attack like nobody's business, right? Wrong. With "Righteous Kill," the De Niro-Pacino pairing collected little interest, no matter how much the studio tried to hype their potential awesomeness. The movie was underwhelming (it was no "Heat" obviously), so it's not entirely the actors' faults, but for men who used to pick and choose their material with one eye on their art and not on their paycheck, these guys have to take some of the (sorry) heat. (Overture Films)