Cogan - Killing Them Softly

This black comedy about unhappy assassins who have hit hard times is a compelling comment on economic bloodletting in the real world

Movies about assassins generally show them as ascetic samurai loners, broodingly dismantling and reconstructing their weapons as they wait for the hit in monkish seclusion, chain-smoking, keeping small talk to a minimum with their employers, who are in a similar laconic state, and who, in any case, may be secretly awed by their hitman's icy professionalism. Killing Them Softly is different. This killer, Cogan - played by Brad Pitt - is relaxed and talkative; he is craggy, leonine, casual and imperious; absolutely on top of his game, but with a flaw. [...]

di Peter Bradshaw, articolo completo (4884 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Guardian 20 settembre 2012