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Righteous Kill
2008
· Movie
· 101 min
F
MEANRANK
47/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5511
- IMDb #4539
- Google retired #3443
- Rotten Tomatoes #4842
- Metacritic #4773
- Letterboxd #5268
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5174
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4703
- Metacritic Critics #4486
- Metacritic Audience #4784
- Criticker #3729
- Kinopoisk #3203
- AlloCiné #5255
- Trakt #4578
Every rating
18–68
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 18, highest is Google on 68. Critics average 27, everyone else 51.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Two veteran New York City detectives hunt a serial killer who is murdering criminals who have escaped justice. The killer leaves poems at the crime scenes, taunting the police. As the investigation deepens, evidence begins to point towards the possibility that the vigilante killer may actually be one of their own, a fellow police officer.
Details
- Director
- Jon Avnet
- Writer
- Russell Gewirtz
- Released
- 11 September 2008
- Country
- United States, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $60.0M
- Box office
- $79.5M
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