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Watch: Killing Them Softly 2012 123movies, Full Movie Online – Three amateurs stickup a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse. Brad Pitt plays the hitman hired to track them down and restore order..
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	6.2/10 Votes: 145,464
	74% | RottenTomatoes
	64/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1794 Popularity: 11.152 | TMDB

Reviews:

A forceful socio-political commentary
The idea of film being used as a medium for political themes and socio-economic commentary is nothing new, even recently with films such as Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Margin Call aiming to tackle the 2008 financial crisis. But few films have been as unsubtle as Killing Them Softly. Set to the backdrop of the 2008 election, the criminal underworld of an American city has been hit by its own financial crisis after a mob poker game is robbed by two criminals (Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn). With no trades or money being moved, a mob manager (Richard Jenkins) brings in a fixer, Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt), to solve the situation. But none of his actions brings back confidence, whether right or wrong. Writer/director Andrew Dominik admirably uses a gangster story as a metaphor for the financial crisis, but the handling was atrocious. Dominik has no faith in his audience to draw these connections, and even worse, come away with its own conclusions; he opts to spoon-feed us the cliff notes as we watch. This is most evident with the constant use of speeches by George W. Bush and Barack Obama made at time, enforcing the parallels Dominik wanted to make. There are constant references to terminology used at the time, particularly the theme of bringing back confidence to the world, the theme that public perspective is more important than actual actions and we are reminded that the gangster world’s situation is the same as the financial world’s one. This forceful approach does not allow us to see a natural story. Killing Them Softly is a very dialogue-driven film that breaks the old cinematic maxim of “show, don’t tell.” We are told that the mob has turned corporate and that there is a crisis, but we do not get to see it. It would have been more interesting to see mob bosses arguing and coming up with theories and seeing that gangsters were unwilling to make any deals in the midst of the crisis. Killing Them Softly ends up rather dull as a result. There are some moments that show what Dominik is capable of: the robbery scene was filled with tension and things felt like they would actually kick off. Whenever violence was used in general, it was incredibly grim and brutal. There is a highly stylised moment when Cogan commits his first assassination, completely played out in slow motion — a brilliant little sequence. The film hits hardest in these scenes. The big saving grace of Killing Them Softly is the acting. There is a great cast with Pitt, Jenkins and James Gandolfini being the biggest draws. They were committed actors doing the best they could, elevating the dry material provided with excellent delivery and chemistry. Pitt and McNairy played the most likable (and I use that term loosely) characters, and were the most well-drawn and conflicted characters in the film. McNairy was the most human, reacting naturally to his situation, and Pitt is able to be cold-hearted and professional when he acts upon his deadly task. Killing Them Softly is a film that feels its political parallels are enough of a mask for it to be seen as an intelligential masterpiece, but it feels too demeaning to have everything spelled out like that, which was made worse given the story played second fiddle to these political parallels. There was potential for a great film if there was a good re-write, but it ends up being one of biggest disappointments of 2012.

How the Mob Solves an Economic Crisis
I guess I should say third time lucky with this film. The first two times were while I was on a plane flying at 30000 and sometimes, even with the technology of having the television in the back of the seat in front of you, and listening to the film through headphones, you are not able to truly appreciate the nature of the film. Also, at least in my case, I ended up falling asleep, and this is not really the type of movie that one can fall asleep through (unlike Die Hard Another Day, or even Jack the Giant Killer) and still understand what is happening.

It is interesting that the film is played in the background of the 08 presidential election and the economic collapse that led up to it. Many of the films you see these days don’t have a background like this, but in a way it is also comparing and contrasting the dichotomy that is the American way of life. There is the top down view that is played out over the media and there is the bottom up view that nobody sees. In fact, the three corpses that come out of the film never seem to even hit the news, and in the end find their way into a freezer at the morgue.

The economic crisis of 08 is reflective of the economic crisis in the film, but they are solved differently. It is almost as if the film makers are suggesting that mob justice is the justice that works. Basically, years ago, an illegal poker game was robbed, and after a shakedown nothing turned up and everything went back to normal. Then the guy, who was running the game that was robbed, mentioned that he was the one who robbed it, and in response everybody saw it as a joke.

What happened though was that somebody else thought that he could then rob such a game and get away with it because they would all blame the other guy. However, as is mentioned in the film, this cannot be allowed to happen. They all know that this guy was not behind the second robbery, but it is not a question of truth that is at stake here, it is a question of reputation. If this robbery is to go the way of the other robbery, then any old punk would try their hand at this. As such, the first robbery is swept under the carpet, but with the second robbery, the mess needs to be cleaned up, and cleaned up in such a way that the street knows that they simply cannot behave in that way.

This is where the economic crisis comes in, and all of the rubbish that spewed out of the mouths of both Bush and Obama. In a way it is similar, but different, because the response was different. In the underworld, the enforcer moves in, deals with the problem, and the situation has rightened. However, in the larger economic world, the government moves in and attempts to patch things up through bailout plans and security buybacks. Four years later the problem still hasn’t been solved, but what has happened is that these companies, the ones that are too big to fail, have simply been told that if they run into trouble, then the government will bail them out.

Nobody even mentions the background until the end, where Cogan (the enforcer, played by Brad Pitt) looks up at the screen and scoffs. He lives on the street and he knows how things work on the street. He sees right through the fine sounding talk of Obama, and the idealism that America is a nation of people working together. It is not, it is a world were everybody is on their own, and they sink or swim on their own. If order is to be maintained, then those who step outside of that order must be dealt with, and dealt with in such a way that a message is sent to others to let them known that such things will not be tolerated. In a way the underworld probably works much better than the world of the legit because the use of force is real, and nobody is immune from the wrath of the enforcers.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 37 min (97 min), 2 hr 30 min (150 min) (rough cut)
Budget 15000000
Revenue 37930465
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director Andrew Dominik
Writer Andrew Dominik, George V. Higgins
Actors Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins
Country United States
Awards 3 wins & 9 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital, Datasat
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Cordin High Speed Framing Camera (extreme-high-speed gun close-ups), PanArri 235, Panavision G-Series and Super High Speed Lenses (some scenes), Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL2, Panavision G-Series and Super High Speed Lenses, Phantom Flex, Panavision G-Series and Super High Speed Lenses (high-speed shots)
Laboratory Cineworks, New Orleans (LA), USA (telecine) (as Cineworks), DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints by) (as Deluxe Laboratories), EFILM Digital Laboratories, Hollywood (CA), USA (digital intermediate services provided by) (as EFILM Deluxe)
Film Length 2,664 m (6 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 50D 5201, Vision3 250D 5207, 500T 5230), CineMag
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Panavision (anamorphic) (source format), Phantom CineMag (2K) (source format) (high-speed shots)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 2383), D-Cinema