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Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.

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46 Comments for 'Killing Them Softly' - Audio Review

January 27, 2013 at 9:23 PM, said ...

My Review of Killing Them Softly http://www.ryanhawbecker.com/2012/11/killing-them-softly-movie-review.html?spref=tw …
January 09, 2013 at 4:13 PM, negraHead said ...

Why is it after only a month or 2 all the audio reviews don't work anymore. This is the third time tring to download a a review and hit with the "404 not found" error.
December 10, 2012 at 5:02 PM, said ...

Brad Pitt is a phony
December 07, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Leon said ...

For anybody who's still check this post: The ONLY reason we don't have Brian on all the reviews is because it doesn't work to have more than 4 people on the mic at one time (trust me, we tried and tried). However, look for Brian to be our #1 fill-in guy when one of us needs to be out.

Ex: You can catch Brian in our recent review of "UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: Day of Reckoning"
December 07, 2012 at 2:41 AM, demonknight said ...

The Assasination of Jesse James was a good fucking movie, yeah it was a little slow but still great, this movie was ok, I wish they would just make a Sopranos movie directed by Scorsese that would be awesome!!!!
December 03, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Michael O'Donoghue said ...

I Laughed so hard at the end of this movie.
December 03, 2012 at 8:29 PM, said ...
December 03, 2012 at 7:27 PM, said ...

I thought this was overrated. The cast is good to varying degrees but, while I don't mind dialogue heavy films, half of the dialogue (usually the first half dialogue in every scene) does not have a purpose. It could have been easily cut out and it would not have made a difference except better pacing. Also, the plot on paper is interesting with 2 dumb guys robbing the mob and the mob hires a hitman to take revenge but they overcomplicate it with needless dialogue and political references to the 2008 economic crash. When it finally takes off within the last 10 minutes, it suddenly ends like someone pulled the plug. While not a terrible film, it is a medicore film that has been overly praised by critics.
December 03, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Mike Malesky said ...

Killing ME Softly ... with boredom. So many critics out there praised this movie up the butt and I was a fool enough to listen to them and waste my money. You could have told this movies plot in thirty minutes if you scraped away all of the unnecessary and irrelevant plot threads, like a certain character whining about their wife for at least 20 minutes of screen time. There are all of these attempts at being artsy and different with editing and cinematography choices but it always distracts from what little story is there. It tries to pretend to be smart by shoving down the elections and the state of America down our throats for a cheap social commentary. Really, this is a stupid movie trying to disguise itself as a smart one.

I kept checking the time and considering walking out but thought that maybe there would be at least one surprise from this boringly straight forward story. Instead there is an incredibly unsatisfying and abrupt conclusion and you're left sitting for a moment, wondering if critics are getting paid off for their praise. Minus a good cast and some pretty visuals that were totally unnecessary and self indulgent, this has little going for it.
December 03, 2012 at 12:38 AM, said ...

Killing Them Softly? More like not killing them at all, I thought it would be a good mob movie, but it became a wave your finger at politics and watch some true hitman get caught up in a mess up of a poker ring who are ran by stupid people. This is some bullshit to me. It didn't help I got stuck next to people who couldn't shut up.

Also if you want to hear losers talking about their dicks and fucking animals this is your movie, cause half of the movie is just that.
December 02, 2012 at 9:35 AM, said ...

Brad Pitt looks so hot in the movie posters !! Too bad this movie is already out of cinemas in the UK D:
December 02, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Roy Edvard Isaksen said ...

Dang it, i was hoping this was going to be a review of Dave Chapelle's Killing them softly.
December 01, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Dr. Detfink said ...

I agree with Cyrus in terms of it doesn't work because some of these conversations are interesting but go for too long and don't lead anywhere. Is that by design? I can't say.

I enjoyed very much some of the atypical moments you see in mob related films such as the part where Pitt & Jennings are in the car and Pitt is telling Jennings how stupid it is to injure a guy when they'll inevitably have to kill him anyways to save face because it's like getting billed twice for the same service. Hysterical.

I also like the concept of a "on-call" hit man who shows up and basically has to be sent back because he's causing more problems than the job requires. The line with James Gandolfini to the hooker about her anus had me laughing pretty good. Even though he's been in a million mobster films, he still knows how to lay those lines thick. "Oooh!" :)
December 01, 2012 at 1:35 PM, said ...

Fuck this movie. I'm so pissed to hear critics like it.
December 01, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Kevin Ho said ...

Word is that this is getting an F cinemascore, obviously audiences were expecting something different.
December 01, 2012 at 8:21 AM, escort said ...

You guys talking about the greasy Heroin Junky makes me want to see this.
December 01, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Dr. Detfink said ...

I liked the underlining economic element to this film. Just the whole line of how the mob goes back and forth to kill a guy, even though they know he had nothing to do with the crime but as Pitt said, "Look, what is most important is getting every one back doing what they are supposed to do..."
November 30, 2012 at 9:23 PM, said ...

@MDS "ORIGINAL version that made the song famous and not just some re-hash by copycats"

When someone mentions "killing me softly" They will more than likely go to The Fugees version...sooo...who made the song famous? Those "copycats" did...and I prefer the Fugees version much more than the original.
November 30, 2012 at 8:28 PM, said ...

I almost always agree with Leon, I usually feel like I need to take what everyone else says with a grain of salt, at least as far as negative aspects of a movie, I feel like Leon has an ability to take off the rose colored glasses while watching a movie. Though that's not to say I don't enjoy hearing everyone else's review, and that's also not to say I think Leon is "right", I think we just have similar taste in movies probably. Anyway great review guys.
November 30, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Coca-cola said ...

Fucking hell. If you are going to post a song at least be honest about it and post the ORIGINAL version that made the song famous and not just some re-hash by copycats:

1973 Roberta Flack's version
November 30, 2012 at 5:32 PM, said ...

@stiver dont forget FUCK brian!
November 30, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Jack Martine said ...

@Stiver

Nah, he's cool.
November 30, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Patrick said ...
November 30, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Christian Bergman Jr. said ...

Wow, totally agree with LEON. In fact I agree with him more frequently these days.

I think the film's more than allegorical, I think its observational. It presents an attitude towards survival that may have either brought about our current economic circumstance or is actually a result of what would ultimately be our current economic circumstance.

It's not quite teaching you something as it is showing you something, and whether or not what we see is something unacceptable is up to us. Do we or do we not need to change?
November 30, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Travis Pickle said ...

Didn't think Pitt was very good in this, I haven't really liked him in anything since Fight Club

Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelson are great! Gandolfini disappears and Sam Shephard is criminally under used! 1 scene!!! that's it? wish he was the lead not Pitt.

Anyway, glimpses of greatness, some amazing shots but just fucking oddly disappointing!

;(

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