Brad Pitt stars in this darkly comic thriller based on a 1974 George V. Higgins crime novel. Jackie Cogan (Pitt) is a professional 'point man'--that is, the investigator who prepares the way for a hitman--who is assigned to track down a pair of junkies who have ripped off a mob-protected poker game. The star-studded supporting cast includes Ray Liotta, James Gandolfini, Scoot McNairy and Sam Shepard.
Set during the U.S. recession of 2007-08, 'Killing Them Softly' is an inspired gangster movie from director Andrew Dominik ('The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford') that takes place in the aftermath of a robbery at a mob run card game. The film doubles as a pointed satire on American culture and examines the underbelly of small-town Mafioso, think Matteo Garrone's 'Gomorrah' in the age of austerity.
Soft spoken hit man, Brad Pitt, is called in to find and take care of the pair of amateur stick-up men who ripped off middling mobster Ray Liotta's card game. But can't seem to get much done what with all the toing and froing, calls to the bosses back home and the general sense of disorder in the crime business. 'Killing Them Softly' is a film where words are as deadly as bullets, where life & death is casually discussed over a Scotch or in a parked car in the rain. Dominik directs with a sure hand and gives the characters plenty of room to manoeuvre with the detached, almost dreamlike, slow burn approach he used in the 'Assassination of Jesse James...'. This visual style and pacing tends to divide audiences but I think it works here, developing the personalities and making the brutal bursts of violence all the more jarring. The cast are uniformly excellent and Pitt's brilliantly written and delivered monologue makes it worth your while. 'Killing Them Softly' won't appeal to everyone and requires a bit of concentration to pick up on the undertones, but its' certainly one of the more creative crime movies to come out of Hollywood for a while. Worth a look.
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. Brad Pitt stars in this darkly comic thriller based on a 1974 George V. Higgins crime novel. Jackie Cogan (Pitt) is a professional 'point man'--that is, the investigator who prepares the way for a hitman--who is assigned to track down a pair of junkies who have ripped off a mob-protected poker game. The star-studded supporting cast includes Ray Liotta, James Gandolfini, Scoot McNairy and Sam Shepard.
Brad Pitt stars in this darkly comic thriller based on a 1974 George V. Higgins crime novel. Jackie Cogan (Pitt) is a professional 'point man' - that is, the investigator who prepares the way for a hitman - who is assigned to track down a pair of junkies who have ripped off a mob-protected poker game. The star-studded supporting cast includes Ray Liotta, James Gandolfini, Scoot McNairy and Sam Shepard.
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