VividSimon Simply Perfect

Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Pjtaylor-96-138044 Excellent writing and performances perforate this oddly structured and slowly paced piece, one which doesn't introduce its anti-hero protagonist for quite some time and, as such, fails to establish a proper connection with him in the way that's necessary for the total destruction of every other developed link to this world to work. When 'Killing Them Softly (2012)' works, it really works and there's a frankness about the picture that allows even the most mundane of scenes to almost instantly draw you in. It's just the lack of discipline - or perhaps a sheer determination to shove in tons of not-so-subtle Obama-election-era American commentary - that often makes the overall experience a disjointed and somewhat dysfunctional one. 6/10

Nils Urban The biggest gripe I have with this movie is that it feels like emptiness has been blown up with more emptiness. Don't make the mistake I made and watch it till the end because your patience won't be rewarded.What you will get a lot is: people sitting in cars making meaningless, boring and unrelated (to the plot of the movie) conversation most of the time. All the transition scenes filled with political talk (for the most part from Bush) doesn't add anything to the movie either. what an amazing failure. the only thing this movie has to offer are some great slow motion scenes of people being beat up or shot and great acting that is blown away by irrelevance.I can not follow the arguments being made in favor of this movie: - that it is comparable to an old classic. (it is not. that would be an insult to those classics!) - that it has Tarantino style dialogues. (absolutely not! it is lenghty like Tarantino but that's all it is, whilst Tarantino delivers) - that it is gritty or dark. (nope...)very disappointing movie but great acting.

VenturousArtist Killing Them Softly alludes various political messages regarding greed, violence, theft, dangerous entrepreneurship and irony. Unfortunately, the film portrays these elements very loosely without actually maintaining its concentration and identity. It was advertised as a dark thriller with an inflated mob-mentality story, but was revealed to be a mediocre deflated mob-mentality story with some inappropriate comedic elements.Despite the wonderful cinematography, soundtrack and acting from the cast, the film alone divided from these additions is an unexciting and shallow film adaptation of the 1974 novel Cogan's Trade by George V. Higgins. Though changing the source material is a risky decision among any adaptation, it here however would've benefited for newcomers, fans, and would've possibly given the film more opportunities to indulge deeper in its political agenda.Instead, it sends disjointed and elongated messages that could've been memorable if were handled cleverly. The film shamelessly descends into an unfinished, unexciting, misguided and tedious experience for the audience. If the film allowed more character development and distance for less predictably dull outcomes, it would've been a superior product opposed to the novel.It's not terrible - but rather a slow and disappointing experience.

huguespt How this movie has an over 6 score on here is beyond me. The story line sounds great, some great big name actors, specially with Brad Pitt, I bet he wishes he didn't do this movie. I don't know what went wrong, maybe the directors view as you have a great story line/plot, great seasoned actors and yet it is so slow, well I would never watch it again, I will never recommend it to anyone, it is a waste of good time.I wont bore you with a brief of the story as the story line above tells/sells it well, it just doesn't work on so many levels. Sorry Brad and Ray. Someone on here rated it a 10 and compared/stated it to be as good as the time immemorial mob films of the 70's, I can't believe it. I Should have known better, I am writing/Watched this movie in March of 2016, it was broadcast on a Government Broadcaster, never known for paying the big bucks for good quality US drama and even worse was scheduled at 11pm so that tells you it is of very little resale value as Govt Broadcasters don't like to pay, were Private Broadcasters do pay and that's why you will see the Godfather series still for many years to come on prime television channels, not Govt Broadcasters. This is a dud.