Movie review...

Saw "Killing them Softly" this weekend. What a colossall waste of time. Even top-notch actors like Brad Pitt and James Gandolfini ( "The Sopranos", "The Last Castle" ) couldn't save this stinker. Brad Pitt is a hitman for some unknown organization, that's never revealed. James Gandolfini is a fellow hitman that Pitt recruits for a job and then betrays because the guy's a drunk. Ray Liotta ( "Goodfellas" "Heartbreakers", "Narc" ) is totally wasted as one of Pitt's targets. He's only in two scenes-one where he's brutally beaten by two thugs and one where he's brutally murdered in a drive-by bt Pitt. You don't even really know why the "organization" wanted him whacked, or why Pitt ws trying to talk the go-between out of it. There's some cool cars one thug drives a 1968 GTO, another has a 1971 Buick GS Skylark, and Pitt's ride is a Jet-Black 1968 Olds Toronado ala-"The Dark Half".  However there's no car chase action, no real action at all outside of Liotta's slo-mo "Sam Peckinpah" style murder, and it ends with Pitt demanding more money for the job from his contact. You never know who any of these people were, who Pitt was working for, or why they needed to be whacked. The one funny scene is a political argument where Pitt pontificates on what a hypocritical asshole Thomas Jefferson was. This speech rivals his classic one in "Fight Club"-  ( "We are a nation of consumer slaves, were kept chained to jobs we hate to pay for shit that we don't need." ) Too many unanswered questions, and not enough action.  Maybe "Jack Reacher" will be better.  Mastermind