Brad Pitt likes to “kill them softly, from a distance”

Oct 20, 2012 09:44 GMT  ·  By

These past few days everyone but his mother threw Brad Pitt under the bus for his collaboration with Chanel and the resulting Chanel No. 5 ad. Let’s take this opportunity to focus on that which makes Brad a household name, his acting.

A brand new, international trailer for his latest film, “Killing Them Softly,” has just been released. See it below, embedded at the end of this blog post.

In the Andrew Dominik-directed film, Pitt plays a hitman who’s hired to track down and settle the score with two smalltime robbers who had the misfortune to steal from the mob.

This is also included in the trailer below, which serves mostly as an explanation for the title. Wait for it at the end of the video.

“Killing Them Softly” also stars Richard Jenkins, James Gandolfini and Ray Liotta, and is poised to become one of the strongest runners in next year’s Oscars race.