Review of Killing Them Softly (2012) by Eric A — 11 Jul 2014

Killing Them Softly repeatedly touts its anti-capitalist politics with all the subtlety of a shotgun shell to the face. And though Dominik occasionally reminds us that he is a capable filmmaker, the handful of appreciable sequences/shots are trounced by an unforgivably thin narrative, unnecessarily prolonged scenes of drugs and violence -- drenched in a maddening slo-mo, no less -- and the most useless, poorly-written monologues uttered by completely uninteresting characters.