“Killing Them Softly,” is a stimulation of George V. Higgins’s novel “Cogan’s Trade”. This is a gruesome little offense film that directed by Andrew Dominik.  The movie begins with a fidgety boy (played by Scoot McNairy) who robs a mobbed-up poker game with his Australian associate (played by Ben Mendelsohn) and the entrepreneur (played by Vincent Curatola). The most important concern of “Killing Them Softly,” is the forceful fairness to be done by a sad man who does it after having some episodes of philosophical talks with different acquaintances.  

Even though Brad Pitt is there as the killer, with a sensible professional called Jackie Cogan, the film has a pleasantly petty mood. “Killing Them Softly” was shot in and around New Orleans but set in a broken-down Boston.