Killing Them Softly (2012)

Very enjoyable and not at all what I expected. I could have done without them pounding away at the economic collapse allegory, but the "lack of story" everyone is talking about is exactly what I found interesting. Not everything is important.

It all comes down to the very last sentence.

Pretty decent mob movie with not much of a plot to speak of. Set during the financial crisis, draws a lot of heavy-handed parallels between underworld economics and the country's.

There wasn't much to this movie - but what there was of it was done well. Gandolfini was gold. Pitt was too cool for me to enjoy, but it was alright. Not enough story to really sink your teeth in to though.

Really like this movie. James Gandolfini gives my favorite performance of the year. "You want ass, there's no ass in the whole world, like a young Jewish girl that's hooking." "You take that to the bank." Ben Mendelsohn also kills it.

Great! A simple story told with excellent writing, great characters and a bunch of dark humour. Maybe a tad slow for some people but I loved it. Bonus drinking game: Start and then finish your beer at the beginning and by the end of any scene with only two people speaking.