They first ignited the screen in Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 Oscar®-winning Best Picture, The Godfather: Part II. They did it again in director Michael Mann's 1995 Los Angeles crime saga Heat. Now, Academy Award® winners Robert De Niro (Raging Bull) and Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman) star as a pair of veteran New York City police detectives on the trail of a vigilante serial killer in the adrenaline fueled psychological thriller Righteous Kill, directed by Jon Avnet (Red Corner, Fried Green Tomatoes) and written by Russell Gewirtz (Inside Man). The cast also features hip-hop superstar Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson (Get Rich or Die Tryin’). After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but aren’t. Before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before. Like the original murder, the victim is a suspected criminal whose body is found accompanied by a four line poem justifying the killing. When additional crimes take place, it becomes clear the detectives are looking for a serial killer, one who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. His mission is to do what the cops can’t do on their own—take the culprits off the streets for good. The similarities between the recent killings and their earlier case raise a nagging question: Did they put the wrong man behind bars? Watch these two geniuses at work and find out.
Cast
Crew
Jon Avnet –Director
Jon Avnet – Producer
Boaz Davidson – Producer
George Furla – Producer
Lati Grobman – Producer
Avi Lerner – Producer
Alexandra Milchan – Producer
Daniel M. Rosenberg – Producer
Russell Gewirtz – Screenwriter
- Commentary
- Theatrical Trailer
- Director Commentary
- Featurette
Movie Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
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Reviews Counted: 142
TOP CRITICS'S REVIEWS
Rotten:
-Mark Holcomb, Time Out, November 18, 2011Rotten: This thriller by Jon Avnet is mostly by the numbers, and its surprise ending, though effective, feels somewhat forced.
-Joshua Katzman, Chicago Reader, December 09, 2008Rotten: Nearly everything about this film is a clich.
-Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies, November 05, 2008Rotten: Say it ain't so, Bobby and Al.
-Jason Matloff, Boston Globe, October 18, 2008
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