Killing Them Softly

2012
16
1 Std. 37 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,2/10

156.497

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

2.931

251

Jackie Cogan is a professional enforcer who investigates a heist that went down during a mob-protected poker game.

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Als ein erfolgreicher Anwalt das letzte verbliebene Mitglied eines gewalttätigen Clans, der seit Jahrzehnten die Nordostküste durchstreift, erobert und zu "zivilisieren" versucht, setzt er d... Alles lesenAls ein erfolgreicher Anwalt das letzte verbliebene Mitglied eines gewalttätigen Clans, der seit Jahrzehnten die Nordostküste durchstreift, erobert und zu "zivilisieren" versucht, setzt er das Leben seiner Familie aufs Spiel.Als ein erfolgreicher Anwalt das letzte verbliebene Mitglied eines gewalttätigen Clans, der seit Jahrzehnten die Nordostküste durchstreift, erobert und zu "zivilisieren" versucht, setzt er das Leben seiner Familie aufs Spiel.

Regie
- Andrew Dominik
Drehbuch
- Andrew Dominik
- George V. Higgins
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,2/10

156.497

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

2.931

251

Regie
- Andrew Dominik
Drehbuch
- Andrew Dominik
- George V. Higgins
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 3 Gewinne & 9 Nominierungen insgesamt

Benutzerrezensionen509

Ausgewählte Rezension

7/10

Negotiating a hit

Watching Killing Them Softly put me in mind of the great crime caper film of the Seventies, Charley Varrick. That's the one where Walter Matthau and some accomplices pull off a bank heist in a small out of the way bank in an obscure New Mexico town. Only the bank is a place where syndicate money is held and laundered. Joe Don Baker is the hit-man sent after them and he loves his work. Fortunately at least for Walter Matthau he's smart enough to outwit Baker. Killing Them Softly has no Matthau among the targets as the tale is told from hit-man's point of view.

The hit-man or at least one of them is Brad Pitt and he gets no pleasure in his work, it's a business like any other. He wants to be well compensated for his services. In fact he wants to Kill Them Softly which to him means taking them out with a rifle with scope because he doesn't want to hear their pleadings. Or by surprise in one case where everyone knows its coming, but the victim.

Two real criminal losers Ben Mendelsohn and Scoot McNairy are hired by Vincent Curatola to rob an illegal gambling establishment run by Ray Liotta. With Liotta you can see a bit of his Henry Hill from Goodfellas, with Hill running just this kind of place as he headed into middle age in the mob.

The reason for this target is that several years earlier Liotta ripped his own card game off, but eventually was forgiven when the gambling started booming again. Curatola is sure the mob will look right at Liotta again. Not that they don't look at Liotta again, but they're smarter than that. They always are.

Once the caper goes down in comes Pitt, but also with a few competitors, James Gandolfini being one. That's where Pitt starts negotiating his deal.

Brad Pitt gives a good performance here, but for me the real stars are McNairy and Mendelsohn. You will rarely losers with a capital "L" portrayed on the screen as they are with these two. In a way they ought to be put out of their misery for their own good. Still you feel sorry for them somewhat.

Interesting mob movie with some deep black comic overtones.

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15. Juni 2013
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Wissenswertes
The Turkish former minister of culture found the movie so offensive that he told the press that he wanted the age bar for this movie to be raised from 13 to 18 or, if possible, remove it from the theaters altogether.

Patzer
After using his shotgun and putting it in the getaway car, Jackie wipes down the car of evidence but fails to retrieve his gun and his fingerprints on it.

Zitate
[last lines]
Barack Obama (on TV): [on TV delivering his election victory speech] ... to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many, we are one.
Driver: You hear that line? Line's for you.
Jackie Cogan: Don't make me laugh. We're one people. It's a myth created by Thomas Jefferson.
Driver: Oh, now you're gonna have a go at Jefferson, huh?
Jackie Cogan: My friend, Jefferson's an American saint because he wrote the words, "All men are created equal." Words he clearly didn't believe, since he allowed his own children to live in slavery. He was a rich wine snob who was sick of paying taxes to the Brits. So yeah, he wrote some lovely words and aroused the rabble, and they went out and died for those words, while he sat back and drank his wine and fucked his slave girl. This guy wants to tell me we're living in a community. Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America, you're on your own. America's not a country. It's just a business. Now fucking pay me.

Alternative Versionen
There are two versions of this film. One is the theatrical release, and another the rough cut. Runtimes, respectively, are: "1h 37m (97 min)" and "2h 30m (150 min) (rough cut):.