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'''''Righteous Kill''''' is a 2008 American ] ] film directed by ] and written by ]. The film stars ] and ] as ] detectives on the hunt for a serial killer. It is the third film in which both De Niro and Pacino appear in starring roles (after '']'' and '']''), and also stars ], ], ], ] and ]. | |||
''Righteous Kill'' was released in the United States on September 12, 2008. The film received negative reviews from critics and grossed $78.5 million against a $60 million budget. | |||
'''''Righteous Kill''''' is an upcoming action and ] that will star ]<ref name="bbc1">{{cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=De Niro and Pacino pair up again | date=2007-05-18 | publisher= | url =http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6668757.stm | work =BBC | pages = | accessdate = 2007-05-18 | language = }}</ref>, ], ], and ].<ref></ref><ref></ref> The film will be released on ] ]. | |||
==Plot== | ==Plot== | ||
Police psychologists review video recordings of a man who goes by the nickname Turk, who states that his full name is Detective David Fisk, the "Poetry Boy" killer. The Poetry Boy earned the moniker for his ] of murdering criminals and leaving short poems with their bodies. Fisk reveals that he looks up to his partner of almost 30 years, Detective Tom Cowan, and considers him to be his role model of how a cop should live life. Turk's partner is known by the nickname "Rooster", and they are consistently referred to as such outside of the recordings. | |||
Two veteran New York City detectives (De Niro and Pacino) work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars? | |||
The story moves back to Poetry Boy's tenth victim, a pimp named Robert "Rambo" Brady. Turk and Rooster investigate the murder with the less-experienced detectives Karen Corelli, Simon Perez and Ted Riley. When they find a poem on the body, the cops link it to Poetry Boy. Turk is living with Corelli, who happens to be Perez's ex-girlfriend, causing tension among the three detectives. | |||
==Cast== | |||
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|] || Turk | |||
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|] ||Rooster | |||
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|] || Karen Kleisner | |||
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|] || Detective Riley | |||
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|] || Spider | |||
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|] || Lieutenant Hingus | |||
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|] || Randall | |||
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|] || Robert Milton Bradley | |||
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Poetry Boy murders acquitted rapist Jonathan Van Luytens and Father Connell, the latter a Catholic priest and ] (whose victims included Poetry Boy). Poetry Boy assaults an intended fourteenth victim, Russian mobster Yevgeny Magulat (who survives), and shoots at Perez's house and rapes Corelli. | |||
==Production== | |||
''Righteous Kill'' was directed by ] and written by ] and will be produced by Avi Lerner, Daniel M. Rosenberg, Boaz Davidson, Lati Grobman and Randall Emmett.<ref name="bbc1"/> The ] will revolve around ] investigators hunting a vigilante killer. ''Righteous Kill'' will have a budget of $60,000,000 and be an independent production put together by Nu Image's Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla. <ref name="var1">{{cite news | first=Dade | last=Hayes | coauthors= | title=De Niro, Pacino reunite for 'Kill' | date=2007-05-17 | publisher= | url =http://www.variety.com/VR1117965130.html | work =Variety | pages = | accessdate = 2007-05-18 | language = }}</ref> The film began shooting September 2007 in ] and ], Norwalk, Stamford and New Haven, Connecticut & Lawrence. It was announced that ] will also appear in the film, as well as ] ('']''), ], Trilby G Manda, professional skateboarder ]. <ref>{{cite news | title=Four More Join 'Righteous Kill' | date=2007-09-04 | publisher=JustPressPlay | url =http://www.justpressplay.net/movies/righteous-kill/news/four-more-join-righteous-kill.html | accessdate = 2007-09-04 }}</ref> This will be Pacino and DeNiro's first film together since the ] crime drama '']'' and the second since the 1974 drama '']''. | |||
Perez and Riley suspect Turk of being Poetry Boy due to his marksmanship skills and psych evaluations, so they arrange a secretly supervised meeting between Turk and suspected drug dealer Marcus "Spider" Smith, during which Turk supposedly will feel the urge to kill Spider. Turk, unaware of the setup, effectively proves his innocence during an encounter with Spider as he has the "wrong" gun and recites a humiliating but obviously inappropriate poem. After Perez and Riley leave the scene unsatisfied, Rooster kills Spider. During the scrape, Rooster inadvertently drops his journal. | |||
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. Pacino liked the script and said he felt a connection with the troubled detective: "It's not in my guy's ] (to ]). ... Probably, his ambition is to die on the job. Sort of like an ]."<ref name="EW Fall Preview">Labrecque, Jeff. "Fall Movie Summer Preview, September: Righteous Kill." '']'', Iss. #1007/1008, August 22/29, 2008, pg.50.</ref> De Niro said he had wished to hopes to perform alongside Pacino in such an expanded role for some time, but said "it's easier said than done"<ref name="EW Fall Preview" /> to make it happen. He added, "I wish at times we had been more proactive, but we weren't. Life, you know?"<ref name="EW Fall Preview" /> | |||
Turk stumbles on and reads Rooster's journal, in which Rooster deems that Spider will be Poetry Boy's fourteenth victim. Rooster puts Turk in front of a video camera and forces him to read the journal—revealing how the audience has ] to think that Turk is Poetry Boy. Rooster is the actual David Fisk/Poetry Boy, while Turk is actually Tom Cowan. Rooster lost his faith in the justice system when Turk, whom he admired, planted a gun at the house of an acquitted child molester and murderer named Charles Randall, convicting him. This had led Rooster to take the law into his own hands as the vigilante serial killer Poetry Boy. | |||
When Turk finishes, he chases Rooster to a construction site. Rooster fires aimlessly to force Turk to ], but Turk resists. When Rooster takes aim at Turk, Turk fires, striking Rooster in the chest. Turk calls for an ambulance, but Rooster begs Turk to let him die. After some hesitation, Turk calls off the paramedics, allowing Rooster to succumb to his wounds. | |||
Turk becomes the coach of a youth girls' baseball team, and Corelli cheers from the bleachers. | |||
==Cast== | |||
* ] as Turk | |||
* ] as Rooster | |||
* ] as Spider | |||
* ] as Karen Corelli | |||
* ] as Det. Teddy Riley | |||
* ] as Jessica | |||
* Shirly Brener as Natalya | |||
* ] as Cheryl Brooks | |||
* ] as Yevgeny Mugalat | |||
* ] as Stein | |||
* ] as Martin Baum | |||
* ] as Rambo | |||
* ] as Hingis | |||
* ] as Det. Simon Perez | |||
* ] as Glenn (uncredited) | |||
* Jim Jones as Cameo (uncredited) | |||
==Reception== | |||
===Box office=== | |||
''Righteous Kill'' grossed $40.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $39.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $79.4 million.<ref name=BOM>{{Cite Box Office Mojo |access-date=2023-01-17}}</ref> | |||
In its opening weekend, ''Righteous Kill'' opened at #3, grossing $16.3 million, behind new releases '']'' and '']''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=&yr=2008&wknd=37&p=.htm |title=Domestic 2008 Weekend 37 {{!}} September 12–14, 2008 |website=] |publisher=] |access-date=September 14, 2008}}</ref> ] paid $12 million to acquire the rights to the film,<ref>{{cite news |title=Coens' 'Burn' fires up box office |last=McClintock |first=Pamela |date=September 14, 2008 |work=] |url=https://variety.com/2008/film/box-office/coens-burn-fires-up-box-office-1117992159/ |access-date=September 10, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918014119/https://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992159.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 |archive-date=2008-09-18}}</ref> and stated that they would be happy if it could theatrically gross $25 million in the United States.<ref>{{cite news |last=Winters Keegan |first=Rebecca |title=''Righteous Kill'' Pairing Earns Hollywood Shrug |work=] |date=September 12, 2008 |url=https://time.com/archive/6909208/righteous-kill-pairing-earns-hollywood-shrug/ |access-date=September 10, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225093517/https://time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1841028,00.html |archive-date=2012-02-25}}</ref> By comparison, '']'', which starred Pacino and De Niro in 1995, grossed over $180 million worldwide. | |||
===Critical response=== | |||
{{RT prose|{{RT data|score}}|{{RT data|average}}|{{RT data|count}}|Al Pacino and Robert De Niro do their best to elevate this dowdy genre exercise, but even these two greats can't resuscitate the film's hackneyed script.|ref=yes|access-date=2023-01-17}} {{MC film|36|27|ref=yes|access-date=2023-01-17}} | |||
'']'' included ''Righteous Kill'' on its 100 Worst Films of 2008 list. | |||
Keith Phipps of '']'''s '']'' said, "The novelty of watching De Niro and Pacino team up wears off pretty quickly, trudging through a thriller that would have felt warmed over in 1988. Director Jon Avnet doesn't offer much compensation for the absent suspense."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.avclub.com/righteous-kill-1798204864 |title=Righteous Kill |first=Keith |last=Phipps |newspaper=] |publisher=] |date=September 11, 2008 |access-date=April 4, 2020}}</ref> Al Pacino and Robert De Niro do their best to elevate this dowdy genre exercise, but even these two greats can't resuscitate the film's hackneyed script. | |||
] 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 ], not a craftsman. ... Its failure to live up to even modest expectations is a blow. There's nothing righteous to be found here."<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.reelviews.net/reelviews/righteous-kill |title=Righteous Kill|first=James|last=Berardinelli|author-link=James Berardinelli|website=ReelViews|access-date=April 4, 2020}}</ref> | |||
Ken Fox of '']'' 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."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://movies.tvguide.com/righteous-kill/review/292919 |title=Righteous Kill Review |last=Fox |first=Ken |website=TV Guide |date=2008}}</ref> | |||
] of '']'' 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."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2008-09-11-righteous-review_N.htm|title='Righteous Kill' just feels wrong|first=Claudia|last=Puig|newspaper=]|publisher=]|date=September 11, 2008|access-date=September 14, 2008}}</ref> | |||
] of '']'' 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 '']: ]''."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/righteous-kill-114333/|title=Righteous Kill|first=Peter|last=Travers|author-link=Peter Travers|magazine=]|publisher=]|date=September 11, 2008|access-date=April 4, 2020}}</ref> | |||
However, Tim Evans for '']'' remarked that the film was "... an effective whodunnit but—more importantly—it poses refined, complex questions about how the law operates in a so-called civilised society."<ref>{{cite web|url= http://movies.sky.com/review/righteous-kill |last=Evans |first=Tim |title=Righteous Kill |website=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201045704/http://movies.sky.com/review/righteous-kill |archive-date=December 1, 2008 |access-date=April 2, 2023}}</ref> | |||
Al Pacino earned a ] nomination for Worst Actor for his performance in the film (and for '']'', also directed by Jon Avnet), but lost the award to ] for '']''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Wilson|first=John|author-link=John J. B. Wilson|title=29th Annual Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Award "Winners"|work=Home of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation|publisher=Golden Raspberry Award Foundation|url=http://www.razzies.com/history/08winners.asp|access-date=April 4, 2020|year=2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090427222315/http://www.razzies.com/history/08Winners.asp|archive-date=April 27, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
==Home media== | |||
The film was released on ] and ] on January 6, 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Righteous-Kill-Blu-ray/3017/ |title=Righteous Kill—On Blu-Ray|website=Blu-ray.com|access-date=April 2, 2023}}</ref> As of February 2009, 778,760 DVD units had been sold, gathering $16.9 million in revenue.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2008/RTKIL-DVD.php|title=Righteous Kill - DVD Sales|website=The Numbers|access-date=September 10, 2012}}</ref> | |||
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2008 American thriller filmRighteous Kill | |
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Directed by | Jon Avnet |
Written by | Russell Gewirtz |
Produced by |
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Starring | |
Cinematography | Denis Lenoir |
Edited by | Paul Hirsch |
Music by | Ed Shearmur |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Overture Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $60 million |
Box office | $79.4 million |
Righteous Kill is a 2008 American crime thriller film directed by Jon Avnet and written by Russell Gewirtz. The film stars Robert De Niro and Al Pacino as New York City Police Department detectives on the hunt for a serial killer. It is the third film in which both De Niro and Pacino appear in starring roles (after The Godfather Part II and Heat), and also stars John Leguizamo, Carla Gugino, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Dennehy and Curtis Jackson.
Righteous Kill was released in the United States on September 12, 2008. The film received negative reviews from critics and grossed $78.5 million against a $60 million budget.
Plot
Police psychologists review video recordings of a man who goes by the nickname Turk, who states that his full name is Detective David Fisk, the "Poetry Boy" killer. The Poetry Boy earned the moniker for his modus operandi of murdering criminals and leaving short poems with their bodies. Fisk reveals that he looks up to his partner of almost 30 years, Detective Tom Cowan, and considers him to be his role model of how a cop should live life. Turk's partner is known by the nickname "Rooster", and they are consistently referred to as such outside of the recordings.
The story moves back to Poetry Boy's tenth victim, a pimp named Robert "Rambo" Brady. Turk and Rooster investigate the murder with the less-experienced detectives Karen Corelli, Simon Perez and Ted Riley. When they find a poem on the body, the cops link it to Poetry Boy. Turk is living with Corelli, who happens to be Perez's ex-girlfriend, causing tension among the three detectives.
Poetry Boy murders acquitted rapist Jonathan Van Luytens and Father Connell, the latter a Catholic priest and child molester (whose victims included Poetry Boy). Poetry Boy assaults an intended fourteenth victim, Russian mobster Yevgeny Magulat (who survives), and shoots at Perez's house and rapes Corelli.
Perez and Riley suspect Turk of being Poetry Boy due to his marksmanship skills and psych evaluations, so they arrange a secretly supervised meeting between Turk and suspected drug dealer Marcus "Spider" Smith, during which Turk supposedly will feel the urge to kill Spider. Turk, unaware of the setup, effectively proves his innocence during an encounter with Spider as he has the "wrong" gun and recites a humiliating but obviously inappropriate poem. After Perez and Riley leave the scene unsatisfied, Rooster kills Spider. During the scrape, Rooster inadvertently drops his journal.
Turk stumbles on and reads Rooster's journal, in which Rooster deems that Spider will be Poetry Boy's fourteenth victim. Rooster puts Turk in front of a video camera and forces him to read the journal—revealing how the audience has been misled to think that Turk is Poetry Boy. Rooster is the actual David Fisk/Poetry Boy, while Turk is actually Tom Cowan. Rooster lost his faith in the justice system when Turk, whom he admired, planted a gun at the house of an acquitted child molester and murderer named Charles Randall, convicting him. This had led Rooster to take the law into his own hands as the vigilante serial killer Poetry Boy.
When Turk finishes, he chases Rooster to a construction site. Rooster fires aimlessly to force Turk to kill him, but Turk resists. When Rooster takes aim at Turk, Turk fires, striking Rooster in the chest. Turk calls for an ambulance, but Rooster begs Turk to let him die. After some hesitation, Turk calls off the paramedics, allowing Rooster to succumb to his wounds.
Turk becomes the coach of a youth girls' baseball team, and Corelli cheers from the bleachers.
Cast
- Robert De Niro as Turk
- Al Pacino as Rooster
- Curtis Jackson as Spider
- Carla Gugino as Karen Corelli
- Donnie Wahlberg as Det. Teddy Riley
- Trilby Glover as Jessica
- Shirly Brener as Natalya
- Melissa Leo as Cheryl Brooks
- Oleg Taktarov as Yevgeny Mugalat
- Alan Rosenberg as Stein
- Alan Blumenfeld as Martin Baum
- Rob Dyrdek as Rambo
- Brian Dennehy as Hingis
- John Leguizamo as Det. Simon Perez
- Adrian Martinez as Glenn (uncredited)
- Jim Jones as Cameo (uncredited)
Reception
Box office
Righteous Kill grossed $40.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $39.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $79.4 million.
In its opening weekend, Righteous Kill opened at #3, grossing $16.3 million, behind new releases Burn After Reading and The Family That Preys. Overture Films paid $12 million to acquire the rights to the film, and stated that they would be happy if it could theatrically gross $25 million in the United States. By comparison, Heat, which starred Pacino and De Niro in 1995, grossed over $180 million worldwide.
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 18% of 147 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.1/10. The website's consensus reads: "Al Pacino and Robert De Niro do their best to elevate this dowdy genre exercise, but even these two greats can't resuscitate the film's hackneyed script." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 36 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.
The Times included Righteous Kill on its 100 Worst Films of 2008 list.
Keith Phipps of The Onion's A.V. Club said, "The novelty of watching De Niro and Pacino team up wears off pretty quickly, trudging through a thriller that would have felt warmed over in 1988. Director Jon Avnet doesn't offer much compensation for the absent suspense." Al Pacino and Robert De Niro do their best to elevate this dowdy genre exercise, but even these two greats can't resuscitate the film's hackneyed script.
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."
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."
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."
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 & Order: AARP."
However, Tim Evans for Sky Movies remarked that the film was "... an effective whodunnit but—more importantly—it poses refined, complex questions about how the law operates in a so-called civilised society."
Al Pacino earned a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actor for his performance in the film (and for 88 Minutes, also directed by Jon Avnet), but lost the award to Mike Myers for The Love Guru.
Home media
The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on January 6, 2009. As of February 2009, 778,760 DVD units had been sold, gathering $16.9 million in revenue.
See also
References
- ^ "Righteous Kill". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 2023-01-17.
- "Domestic 2008 Weekend 37 | September 12–14, 2008". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved September 14, 2008.
- McClintock, Pamela (September 14, 2008). "Coens' 'Burn' fires up box office". Variety. Archived from the original on 2008-09-18. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
- Winters Keegan, Rebecca (September 12, 2008). "Righteous Kill Pairing Earns Hollywood Shrug". Time. Archived from the original on 2012-02-25. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
- "Righteous Kill". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 2023-01-17.
- "Righteous Kill". Metacritic. Fandom, Inc. Retrieved 2023-01-17.
- Phipps, Keith (September 11, 2008). "Righteous Kill". The A.V. Club. The Onion. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
- Berardinelli, James. "Righteous Kill". ReelViews. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
- Fox, Ken (2008). "Righteous Kill Review". TV Guide.
- Puig, Claudia (September 11, 2008). "'Righteous Kill' just feels wrong". USA Today. Gannett. Retrieved September 14, 2008.
- Travers, Peter (September 11, 2008). "Righteous Kill". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
- Evans, Tim. "Righteous Kill". Sky Movies. Archived from the original on December 1, 2008. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
- Wilson, John (2009). "29th Annual Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Award "Winners"". Home of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation. Golden Raspberry Award Foundation. Archived from the original on April 27, 2009. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
- "Righteous Kill—On Blu-Ray". Blu-ray.com. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
- "Righteous Kill - DVD Sales". The Numbers. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
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