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 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?
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