'Killing Them Softly' a cut above usual crime thriller fare

Crime does pay and the price tag is your life in 'Killing Them Softly', an artfully composed, slow-burning crime thriller based on the novel 'Cogan’s Trade' by George V Higgins.

Writer-director Andrew Dominik, who previous helmed The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, transplants the setting of the book from 1970s Boston to 2008 Louisiana, using the passing of the political baton from outgoing president George W Bush to Democrat rising star Barack Obama as a backdrop to the skulduggery.