Killing Them Softly

Killing was a rather mediocre Crime movie set around the final days of the 2008 election. There’s so much yapping, you’d think David Mamet wrote this but it’s loosely based upon a book I’m not going to look up.

Brad Pitt stars as a free agent hitman hired by the Boston mafia to find out who robbed an illegal poker game. It doesn’t take him very long to discover who the bumbling thieves were but the person behind the operation is someone he knows, so this needs to contracted out. Meanwhile, to send a message, Ray Liotta also has to be whacked to send a message because he had his own game robbed a few years back, never mind his innocence over this matter.

Is it violent? At times. Was it entertaining? No, I found it rather boring and this may have been an ego project for Pitt to show off his acting chops. Killing is more realistic like Goodfellas in how organized crime isn’t glamorous, most of the money making is done through mundane things but there was too much high-brow jibber jabber trying to make a point about America.