One of the most under appreciated films of the past ten years

Yup

I feel like I could appreciate it more, but... nah. It has its good scenes, though.


You want something corny? You got it!

I agree. I was super impressed. (All the more so because I thought the Jesse James movie was very overrated.) I'm still trying to wrap my mind around it being the only non-horror film other than Solaris to get an CinemaScore F. I don't understand that at all.

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Agree. Love every second of this film.

Agreed and it's very faithful to the book.

Agreed 100%, shocking it's rating is 6.2 on IMDB for me it's a 7.7 to 7.9 at best. I can see why the critics and audience might have taken agaisnt it at the time of it's release. Critical of Obama and his government was a brave ballsy move that didn't pay off and I'm sure it pissed off a lot of the film critics who supported the man. Also for audiences expecting a Snatch like comedy/gangster instead got a slower pace downbeat film instead weren't please. The film reminds a lot of the 70's gangster films like The Friends of Eddie Coyle.

It's a far bleaker film the more you watch it, seen as how stupid and dumb everyone is besides Brad Pitt's Jackie and Richard Jerkin's Driver/Council man. You actually feel for Scoot McNairy's low rent criminal Frankie as he clearly knows as it leads to his end that he's out of his depth. Fantastic performances all round, especially from James Gandolfini as Mickey, the over the hill and heartbroken hitman Jackie hires and Ben Mendelsohn as Frankie's junkie mate Russell. Also Ray Liotta in a smallish role. Brad Pitt probably delivers one of his best performances for me in this.

Andrew Dominik is such a underrated director, with only 4 films under his belt in 19 years. One of them in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford been one of the best films in the last 19 years. Looking forward to his action film War Party with Tom Hardy and his Marilyn Monroe biopic Blondie coming up.

I agree...watched it again the other night. The dialog is fabulous and for those bitch about this flick miss the entire metaphor of the movie being an indictment against the crumbling of America and its work ethic and standards (even though it is through the lens of criminality).

I turned this on Hulu because I could not find anything else to watch and thinking that I would turn it off in less than 5 minutes. It is not the kind of movie I usually like. Well, surprise, surprise, it held my interest and I kind of liked it. Now, I did not like to enough to classify it as under appreciated, or anything really special, but it was good.