Killing Me Softly

[Soulboy]

Anyone else seen it?

Hugely hyped, top notch cast list (Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta and James Gandolfini ), yet turned out to be a massive anti-climax of a film.

Ray Liotta and "Tony Soprano" simply reprise their roles from Goodfellas and The Sopranos, further pigeon-holing themselves into their one source of income these days... gangster movies. While Brad Pitt took on the mantle of the "the man with no name" riding into town to sort everything out.

Every cliche is on view, and the clanking metaphors comparing the demise of old-fashioned gangsters and the American economy was more signposted than the road to the swamp!

The final speech at the end was toe-curlingly embarrassing, as we are told, without the slightest hint of irony, that the US is not a community it's a business. Wow. Who'd have thunk that...

A pale shadow of the great gangster movies of the modern era, and one to be missed. Not even good enough to be recommended as a video purchase.

Just buy Goodfellas or Casino and watch those again...

 

[ICT-Tam]

Yeh, watched it last Friday. Have to say i was really disappointed. I could just tell the whole way through they were pinching ideas. They tried to make Pitt's character like the guy from Drive. I.e good looking, quiet type who plays by his own rules but I thought he was just odd. The scenes of pure dialogue weren't interesting enough either to sustain the length of them. Lawless got much worse reviews but it was a better film in my opinion.

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

Was on my to do list along with The Sweeney film. Might not bother then

 

[ChrisNUFC]

So it's not even worth watching one time (one time)

*gets coat*

 

[LongsightM13]

Going to see it tonight.
I recently finished the 1974 novel on which it's based, Cogan's Trade by George V Higgins.
That is a brilliant book but is 99 per cent dialogue — everything, in fact, except the robbery and the beating — so will be interesting too see how they transfer much of the story to action.
From the reviews I've read, moving it from the 70s to the present day was not a success. They have also changed some of the characters.
Still, I'll make my own mind up.
I've also read the original novel of Savages by Don Winslow. The film out now is by Oliver Stone but looks a bit trashy and B-movie. Still, I'll give it a spin.
Lawless was very good