Time: 13:30, December 19, 2010
Movies: 1) Sacrifice; 2) Righteous Kill
Sacrifice
Director: Kaige Chen
Cast: Man Cheuk Chiu, Bingbing Fan, You Ge, Hai Qing, Xiaoming Huang etc.
Genre: Action/Drama/History
Production: Shanghai Film Group Corporation
Synoposis
The Zhao Family has enjoyed reputation and prosperity for generations till the big family of three hundred were almost all killed within one day by Tu Anjia. To protect the only survivor, the new-born baby of the family, Cheng Ying, who practiced midwifery, sacrificed his own son. Ying brought the child into Tu’s home and raised him up there for 15 years for the final revenge…
Righteous Kill
Director: Jon Avnet
Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, John Leguizamo, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Dennehy
Genre: Crime/Drama
Production: U.S.A.
Synoposis
Police psychologists review recordings of a man who is presumably Detective David Fisk (De Niro), 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 his role model of how a cop should be.
These recordings provide a narrative, and the film opens with the tenth victim, a drug dealer named Robert "Rambo" Brady (Dyrdek). Turk and Rooster investigate the murder with the less-experienced Detectives Corelli (Gugino), Perez (Leguizamo), and Riley (Wahlberg). When they find a poem on the body, they link it to the Poetry Boy.
As Poetry Boy murders acquitted rapist Jonathan Van Luytens and Father Connell, a Catholic priest and child molester (children including Poetry Boy himself), tension builds between Turk, Corelli, and Perez. Turk is now living with Corelli, who happens to be Perez's ex-girlfriend. Meanwhile, Rooster plants a gun at the house of acquitted child molester and murderer Charles Randall (Hughes), convicting him. Poetry Boy assaults Perez, Corelli, and an attempted fourteenth victim, Russian mobster Yevgeny Mugalat. Perez and Riley suspect Turk of being Poetry Boy due to his markmanship skills and psych evaluations, so they arrange a secretly supervised meeting between Turk and a drug dealer Marcus "Spider" Smith (Jackson) (during which Turk supposedly must kill him). However, Turk proves his innocence during an encounter with this drug dealer as he has the "wrong" gun and humiliating but obviously inappropriate poem. After Perez and Riley leave the scene unsatisfied, Rooster kills Spider. During this scrape Rooster inadvertently drops his diary.
Turk stumbles upon and reads Rooster’s journal, Rooster claims Spider as Poetry Boy's fourteenth victim. Rooster puts Turk in front of a video camera and forces him to read the journal. At this point, it is realized that the recordings from the film’s beginning and therefore the narration merely set Turk up as a red herring, and Rooster is the actual Poetry Boy. Turk’s name is actually Tom Cowan, and Rooster's David Fisk (they were only referred to as "Turk" and "Rooster" outside of the recordings).
When Turk finishes, he chases Rooster to a construction site. Rooster fires aimlessly to convince Turk to report that the Poetry Boy is assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, and fleeing, but Turk resists. When Rooster takes aim at Turk, Turk fires several rounds at Rooster. He calls for an ambulance, however Rooster begs him to withdraw the ambulance. After some hesitation, Turk calls off the ambulance, allowing Rooster to bleed to death. He is last shown coaching a Police Athletic League baseball team as Corelli looks on.