Short Trial - Righteous Kill
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Short Trial - Righteous Kill |
| Original title | Righteous kill |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jon Avnet |
| script | Russell Gewirtz |
| production | Jon Avnet, Randall Emmett , Lati Grobman , Avi Lerner , Alexandra Milchan , Daniel M. Rosenberg , Rob Cowan |
| music | Ed Shearmur |
| camera | Denis Lenoir |
| cut | Paul Hirsch |
| occupation | |
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Righteous Kill - short process is an American film drama from the year 2008 . Directed by Jon Avnet and written by Russell Gewirtz .
action
The film begins with a scene in which police investigator Tom “Turk” Cowan apparently confesses to fourteen murders. Previous events are shown in a flashback .
Turk and his partner Rooster work as police officers in New York City . Turk is a dedicated police officer with a keen sense of justice. He suffers from the fact that criminals often have to be acquitted because there is insufficient evidence. Rooster, on the other hand, seems to leave this cold. They are investigating a murder case against a suspect who was acquitted by the court. Next to the corpse is a mocking poem. Soon there is another dead person who was also an acquitted suspect. There is also a mocking poem next to his corpse. They find that the murders are similar to a case they worked on a few years earlier. At the time, there was an arrest for Turk forging evidence. A child murderer had been acquitted and Turk slipped him the weapons from an unsolved murder case so that at least one murderer would have to pay. Turk and Rooster suspect they are dealing with a serial killer .
As a result, more people are murdered. The police had previously unsuccessfully investigated against all of them. Hence the suspicion arises that a police officer is committing vigilante justice. Eventually, Turk is the target of the investigation as he is linked to many of the dead and is prone to violence anyway.
Two colleagues, Detectives Simon Perez and Ted Riley, watch Turk and set a trap for him. The relationship with Perez is also strained because Turk has a sexual relationship with his ex-lover Karen Corelli, who also works for the police. Perez and Riley arrange for Turk to meet drug dealer Spider, believing Turk will reveal himself to be the perpetrator. However, this fails. When the detectives leave, Spider, Turk and Rooster are alone. Rooster murders Spider and reveals himself to Turk as the perpetrator. After the confession, Rooster tries to escape and is caught by Turk. Rooster admits that he burned all the bridges behind him and brutally raped Corelli. Rooster draws his gun to create a situation in which Turk must shoot him. Turk shoots him and Rooster dies in the presence of Turk, who first requests medical help for him, but cancels it at the request of his colleague, who would rather die. In the final scene you can see that Turk is returning to a normal life with Corelli by his side. Both seem to have built a serious relationship with each other.
background
The film was shot in New York City , Shreveport , Louisiana, and various locations in Connecticut . The records of the location shooting began on 6 August 2007 and ended on 31 August 2007. The shooting of principal photography began on 5 September 2007 and lasted until October 28, 2007. The production costs of the film were estimated at 60 million US dollars . It was financed as an independent production by Emmett / Furla Films and Millennium Films , which offered the worldwide distribution rights on the sidelines of the Cannes International Film Festival in May 2007 .
The film premiered in the Philippines on September 10, 2008. It opened in US cinemas on September 12, 2008 and was released in German cinemas on January 1, 2009. The cinema release in Switzerland took place on January 8, 2009, in Austria the film was shown from March 27, 2009. On the opening weekend in the United States, nearly $ 16.3 million were raised. It grossed approximately $ 76.7 million worldwide, including approximately $ 40.1 million in US cinemas. Overture Films paid over $ 12 million for the marketing rights to the film, outbidding Warner Bros. Pictures and Universal Pictures , each bidding over $ 10 million. In the original version, the film had a running time of two hours, which, however, did not meet with a positive response during test screenings. The film was then shortened to around 100 minutes, which made it more action-heavy. Some scenes that fell victim to the cut are included in the trailer. On July 3, 2009, Studiocanal released the film in Germany on DVD with an FSK-16 rating.
Randall Emmett, one of the producers, told Variety magazine that friends De Niro and Pacino had done a lot to help make the film - it was an idea of the two actors. Previously, there had been two scenes together in Heat (1995) while they would have played both in The Godfather - Part II (1974), but without scenes in common.
synchronization
The German-language dubbed version produced the Berliner Synchron after the dialogue book by Andreas Pollak and the dialogue director of Engelbert Nordhausen on. Engelbert von Nordhausen took on several speaking roles at the same time.
| actor | German speaker | role |
|---|---|---|
| Al Pacino | Frank Glaubrecht | David "Rooster" Fisk |
| Robert De Niro | Christian Brückner | Tom "Turk" Cowan |
| Brian Dennehy | Klaus Sunshine | Lieutenant Hingis |
| John Leguizamo | Nicolas Boell | Det. Simon Perez |
| Donnie Wahlberg | Torsten Michaelis | Det. Ted Riley |
| Curtis Jackson | Tobias Kluckert | Spider |
| Carla Gugino | Schaukje Könning | Karen Corelli |
| Melissa Leo | Arianne Borbach | Cheryl Brooks |
| Ajay Naidu | Patric Tavanti | Dr. Chadrabar |
| Barry Primus | Bodo Wolf | Dr. Prosky |
| Saidah Arrika Ekulona | Martina Treger | Gwenn Darvis |
| Trilby Glover | Magdalena Turba | Jessica |
| Terry Serpico | Tobias Kluckert | Jonathan Van Luytens |
| Alan Blumenfeld | Hans Teuscher | Martin Baum |
| Malachy McCourt | Engelbert von Nordhausen | Father Connell |
| Sterling K. Brown | Gerald Paradise | Rogers |
| Engelbert von Nordhausen | police officer | |
| Oleg Taktarov | Waléra Kanishcheff | Yevgeny Mugalat |
reception
Justin Chang described the film in Variety magazine on September 11, 2008 as a "twisty genre exercise" and as the weakest of the three films together with the main characters. It seems like a variation of seven based on the ideas of M. Night Shyamalan - at the same time predictable and unnecessarily tortuous.
Wesley Lovell wrote on oscarguy.com based on the film trailer that the film looks stylistically like a dime version of French Connection - Brennpunkt Brooklyn (“The film doesn't look like anything more than your dime store French Connection reinvention”).
Christina Krisch wrote on March 26th, 2009 in the Kronen-Zeitung that De Niro and Pacino, even if they did their best and pushed themselves to the fore with a practiced presence, did not manage to spice up a bland script.
Julia Evers wrote on March 28 in the OÖN that the director in the film would slip on clichés, genre set pieces and the script, including the content of one-dimensional female characters. If after this strip the fan heart pounded faster, it would be out of anger. In the television program, the viewer would make short work of this.
The lexicon of international films wrote: "Uninspired as a flashback of narrated thrillers, the formal inconsistency of which makes the director indictable."
Awards
Al Pacino was nominated for a Golden Raspberry for Worst Actor in 2009 .
Web links
- Official website (German)
- Cut Short - Righteous Kill in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cut Short - Righteous Kill at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Cut Short - Righteous Kill at Metacritic (English)
- Short Trial - Righteous Kill in the online film database
- Entry in the All Movie Guide (English)
- Movie trailer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release Certificate for Short Trial - Righteous Kill . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2008 (PDF; test number: 116 256 K).
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations , accessed August 21, 2008
- ↑ a b c d Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results , accessed August 21, 2008
- ↑ a b BBC : De Niro and Pacino pair up again on news.bbc.co.uk, accessed on August 21, 2008
- ↑ a b Variety : De Niro, Pacino reunite for 'Kill' ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 17, 2007, accessed August 21, 2008
- ↑ a b c Internet Movie Database : Launch Dates , accessed August 21, 2008
- ↑ boxofficemojo.com , accessed July 18, 2009
- ↑ a b c d e Internet Movie Database : Background information
- ↑ a b c Short Trial - Righteous Kill. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on February 26, 2012 .
- ↑ Film review by Justin Chang ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 26, 2008
- ↑ www.oscarguy.com ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 21, 2008
- ↑ Kronen-Zeitung of March 26, 2009
- ^ Upper Austrian news of March 28, 2009
- ↑ Short Trial - Righteous Kill. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : Nominations and Awards
