A movie that I have watched recently is Killing Them Softly.  This movie is a noir crime film with Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, and Ray Liotta.  This movie is about an illegal poker game that gets robbed by two poor criminals. It all fails when Johnny's partner later reveals that they robbed the game.  This movie had some good aspects, and some bad.

The main thing that annoyed me about this movie was the acting of the main characters.  Johnny Amato (Vincent Curatola) didn't do a good job playing this role.  Throughout the movie it was hard to tell what kind of character he was trying to be.  At some points it seemed like he was a nervous wreck, and other times he seemed under control.  Also his dialogue seemed very scripted, and not authentic.  Also the character Russel (I don't know if it was intentional) was so annoying.  He made a ton of pointless lines and was an eye sore to the viewer.


Other than that the movie was pretty solid.  Brad Pitt was a BA character.  His character was sharp and knew what he was doing.  It was entertaining watching his character investigate what happened.  Also watching him interact with James Gandolfini was good.  Seeing these two successful actors work well defanitly made the movie better.  The best scene of the movie was when they were robbing the game.  I liked this scene because I liked seeing all these characters being taken from.  The players witnessing the game added fuel to the fire.


Overall, I liked this movie.  I thought it had a lot of potential, it could of been better.  I would give it a 3 out of 5 stars.