Righteous Kill

A pair of veteran New York City police detectives are on the trail of a vigilante serial killer.

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?

Directed by: Jon Avnet
Written by: Russell Gurwitz
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Carla Gugino, 50 Cent, Donnie Wahlberg
Studio: Overture Films
Genre: Suspense
Official Site: www.righteouskill-themovie.com
Release Date: September 12, 2008 (wide)
Traile: www.youtube.com

Movie Trivia

- The script originally called for a 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.

- This will be Pacino and DeNiro's first film together since the 1995 crime drama Heat and the second since the 1974 drama The Godfather Part II.

World Release Date :

12 September 2008: Turkey
18 September 2008: Russia
19 September 2008: Taiwan
25 September 2008: Israel
26 September 2008: Estonia, Italy, Sweden, UK
3 October 2008: Finland
8 October 2008: France
10 October 2008: Denmark
16 October 2008: Portugal
27 November 2008: Argentina