A mob poker game gets robbed, and Brad Pitt is brought in to kill the folks responsible so business can get back to normal.
This movie is a political statement, and not only does it not try to hide it, but it's shoved in your face constantly. The statement is basically crime=government, and nobody is truly looking out for us.
Anyway, the film itself is really boring, and poorly written. It's one of those films where you can actually sense the film maker's smugness and feeling of intellectual superiority.
So Brad is brought in by this crooked city councilman to kill the folks who robbed the game. The best part of this is that Pitt is the smartest guy in the room. He's the hitman, yet here he is telling the people hiring him exactly what he needs to do, who they need killed, and suggesting who they hire.
He also gives this long speech about killing that explains the movie's title. That speech explains that he likes to kill from a distance. Why am I pointing that out? Guess what he really doesn't do in the film? To give you an example, his longest kill was with a shotgun, and from an angle that made no sense whatsoever. Seriously, no professional would have ever used that angle.
James Gandolfini is in the movie for some reason. He doesn't do anything. I don't know what he was supposed to symbolize. Maybe how it's good to have friends?
The cinematography is pretty good, except for the actual poker game robbery, which drags.
Not worth seeing.