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Righteous Kill
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Directed by	Jon Avnet
Produced by	Avi Lerner Boaz Davidson Daniel M. Rosenberg Lati Grobman Randall Emmett
Written by	Russell Gewirtz
Starring	Robert De Niro Al Pacino Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson Carla Gugino Donnie Wahlberg Brian Dennehy John Leguizamo
Distributed by	Overture Films (USA) Lions Gate Entertainment (UK)
Release date(s)	September 12, 2008 (USA)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$60,000,000
Gross revenue	$36,086,081
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Righteous Kill is a 2008 thriller film directed by Jon Avnet, and starring Robert De Niro,^[1] Al Pacino, John Leguizamo, Donnie Wahlberg, and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson.^[2][3] The film was released in the United States on September 12, 2008.

Plot

A pair of 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 the detectives can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the vigilante murder of a righteous notorious pimp, who 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? 

Cast

• Robert De Niro as "Turk"
• Al Pacino as "Rooster"
• Carla Gugino as Karen Corelli
• Donnie Wahlberg as Detective Riley
• Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson as Marcus "Spider" Smith
• Brian Dennehy as Lieutenant Hingus
• Frank John Hughes as Charles Randall
• Rob Dyrdek as Robert Bradley
• John Leguizamo as Detective Perez
• Papoose as club rapper
• Jim Jones as club rapper

Production

Righteous Kill was directed by Jon Avnet, written by Russell Gewirtz, and produced by Avi Lerner, Daniel M. Rosenberg, Boaz Davidson, Lati Grobman and Randall Emmett.^[1] The plot revolves around police investigators hunting a vigilante killer. Righteous Kill had a budget of $60,000,000 and is an independent production put together by Nu Image's Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla.^[4] The film began shooting September 2007 in New York and Bridgeport, Norwalk, Stamford and New Haven, Connecticut & Lawrence. It was announced that Brian Dennehy will also appear in the film, as well as Darren O (Band of Brothers), Dan Futterman, Trilby G Manda, professional skateboarder Rob Dyrdek.^[5] This is Pacino and DeNiro's third film together, starting with The Godfather Part II (in which, they shared no screentime) but the second film they appear in a scene(s) together since the 1995 crime drama Heat.

The script originally called for an old cop and young cop dynamic, but Robert De Niro, the first lead actor to sign on for the film, suggested Al Pacino for the part after reading the screenplay. Pacino liked the script and said he felt a connection with the troubled detective: "It's not in my guy's DNA (to retire). ...Probably, his ambition is to die on the job. Sort of like an actor."^[6] De Niro said he had wished to perform alongside Pacino in such an expanded role for some time, but said "it's easier said than done"^[6] to make it happen. He added, "I wish at times we had been more proactive, but we weren't. Life, you know?"^[6]

Reception

Critical reaction to Righteous Kill has been mixed to negative. The film currently holds a 23% "Rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes^[7] and a score of 37 out of 100 on Metacritic.^[8]

Keith Phipps of The Onion's A.V. Club said, "The novelty of watching De Niro and Pacino team up wears off pretty quickly, [with them] trudging through a thriller that would have felt warmed over in 1988. Director Jon Avnet doesn't offer much compensation for the absent suspense."^[9] James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film two stars (out of four), saying: "This isn't just generic material; it's generic material with a dumb ending, and the director is a journeyman, not a craftsman. [...] Its failure to live up to even modest expectations is a blow. There's nothing righteous to be found here."^[10]

Ken Fox of TV Guide also gave Righteous Kill a score of two stars out of four, saying: "The entire movie is one big build-up to a twist that, while not exactly cheating, plays an awfully cheap trick. To get there, writer Russel Gewirtz and director John Avnet sacrifice mystery, suspense, sensible editing and everything else one expects to find in a police thriller just to keep the audience off-guard. It's not worth it, and the first real pairing of De Niro and Pacino is utterly wasted."^[11]

Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film one and a half stars out of four, saying: "By the time the movie reaches its protracted conclusion, it feels like a slog. Pacino has a few funny lines, as does Leguizamo, but not nearly enough to save the film from collapsing under the weight of its own self-righteous tedium."^[12] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave Righteous Kill one star out of four, saying: "Some people think Robert De Niro and Al Pacino would be a kick to watch just reading a phone book. Well, bring on that phone book. Righteous Kill, a.k.a. The Al and Bob Show, is a cop flick with all the drama of Law and Order: AARP."^[13]

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