Rama’s SCREEN

Via Empire, here is the UK Poster (click on it to enlarge) for RIGHTEOUS KILL, the thriller that reunites two screen legends, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino since their last collaboration in Michael Mann’s Heat.

Directed by Jon Avnet (88 Minutes) and also starring Carla Gugino, John Leguizamo, and Brian Denehy, the story is about a pair of veteran New York City police detectives who 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?

Folks living in the UK might get the better lookin’ posters but they have to wait til September 26th, 2008 to watch this movie, whereas we here in the U.S. will get to see RIGHTEOUS KILL as early as September 12th, 2008