Ricochet is a 1991 American action crime thriller film, directed by Russell Mulcahy, written by Steven E. de Souza, and starring Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T, Kevin Pollak, and Lindsay Wagner, with Mary Ellen Trainor reprising her role as Gail Wallens from Die Hard.

The film details a struggle between a Los Angeles district attorney (Washington) and a vengeful criminal (Lithgow) whom he arrested when he was a cop.

In 1983, rookie LAPD officer and law student Nick Styles meets Alice and drifts away from childhood friend Odessa, who has become a drug dealer in South Central Los Angeles.

Styles and his partner Larry Doyle patrol a carnival, where they encounter hitman Earl Talbot Blake and his accomplice, Kim.

Styles fakes his own death by blowing up Odessa's drug lab, secretly escaping the blast through a clothing chute as Blake watches in horror.

Originally, the screenplay to Ricochet by Fred Dekker was written as a Dirty Harry film, but Clint Eastwood deemed it too grim.

[citation needed] The score of the film was composed, produced, and conducted by Alan Silvestri, who collaborated with Stephen Hopkins in Predator 2.

The score album included an unheard alternate fanfare cue for the Silver Pictures logo, composed by Silvestri.

After his departure from Warner Bros. for Priority Records, it was later included as part of a bonus CD packaged with copies of Home Invasion.

[8] Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert gave the film two thumbs down on their show At the Movies, describing it as ridiculous, goofy, embarrassing, unsavory and distasteful but also stylish, ambitious and having some smart dialogue.

It premiered on October 4, 1991, making $4,831,181 in its opening weekend, 2nd behind The Fisher King, ending up grossing over $21 million in its theatrical run.