For the life of me I can't understand the putrid reviews this film is getting. It's certainly no masterpiece, yet it isn't the abysmal train-wreck that some of these reviews suggest. It is a talky, nihilistic and brutal expose into the low-life criminal underbelly of America, an America in the midst of the financial crisis. It's clear from alot of these reviews that the film's wink wink shot a capitalism and it's every man for himself, go it alone attitude was over the head of most viewers. That's not surprising seeing as how the same [...] public ignored director Andrew Dominik's last Brad Pitt film, the criminally under-seen but brilliant Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Both films require a certain amount of patience, though with Softly, the payoff is not as substantial. It's populated with ugly characters who say ugly things and the film really has nowhere in particular to go. The script is good, if you can handle the constant barrage of profanity and Pitt is excellent, delivering a tempered, subdued turn as the hit-man. His closing lines sum up the entire film perfectly and are worth the price of admission.
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