The trailer for Righteous Kill, aka the Al Pacino-Robert De Niro cop drama from director Jon Avnet and Overture Films, is online, and it’s a real mixed bag that doesn’t necessarily give one hope that the movie is much more than an angular punch-card genre flick with a few hoo-ah! interactions between the two screen legends, who play police partners. It starts out strong enough, with the pair butting heads with an on-trial perp sprung from rape charges, and typically wry, on-the-job voiceover narration from De Niro (“Most respect the badge… everybody respects the gun”), but the preview’s musical choice of a loose-limbed version of “Sympathy for the Devil,” remixed by the Neptunes, is wrongheaded. It’s effectively lean, but this trailer whiffs on all the necessary menace and edgy cool that should be here. This would-be red-band trailer (self-made?) is much preferred, even if the punch of the voiceover from De Niro is dialed down a bit. Righteous Kill is set to release nationwide on September 12.