Righteous Kill is a 2008 crime thriller film with elements of a buddy cop film directed by Jon Avnet, and starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. Righteous Kill also features John Leguizamo, Carla Gugino, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Dennehy, and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. The film was released in the United States on September 12, 2008. Police psychologists review recordings of a man , who states his name as 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, Tom Cowan , and considers him to be his role model of how a cop should be. Pacino's character is known by the nickname "Rooster" and De Niro's by "Turk," and they are referred as such outside of the recordings. These recordings provide a narrative, and the film opens with the tenth victim, a drug dealer named Robert "Rambo" Brady . Turk and Rooster investigate the murder with the less-experienced Detectives Corelli , Perez , and Riley .
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| Release date: | September 10, 2008 |
| Directed by: | Jon Avnet |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Producer: | Lati Grobman, Avi Lerner, Jon Avnet, Rob Cowan, Randall Emmett, Alexandra Milchan, Daniel M. Rosenberg |
| Editor: | Paul Hirsch |
| Music by: | Edward Shearmur |
| Cinematography: | Denis Lenoir |
| Screenplay by: | Russell Gewirtz |
| Estimated budget: | $60,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller, Action |