Review of Killing Them Softly (2012) by Kevin L — 04 Jan 2015

Pretentious and incoherent, Killing Them Softly is a poorly made and monotonous crime drama. The story follows a mob enforcer who's called in to restore order when it's suspected that a poker heist was an inside job.

There are some impressive actors in the cast, Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta, James Gandolfini, and Richard Jenkins, but the performances (aside from Pitt's) are underwhelming. And the script is atrocious, full of insipid dialog that seems to go of forever.

Yet, more than anything else it's the directing (which accentuates all of the film's problems) that really makes Killing Them Softly the inane piece of tripe that it is.