The mafia hires a professional killer to go after the men who robbed an illegal poker game.

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In an unnamed dark and rainy American city, a dry cleaner calls on two losers - a wannabe wiseguy and an Australian junkie - fresh out of prison to rob an illegal poker game. Once the job is done, the organizer of the game, a mafia underling, is severely beaten because the mob suspects him of heisting their game. The mob bosses' lawyer then hires a hit man named Cogan (Brad Pitt) to find and eliminate the robbers...

After the excellent Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Australian director Andrew Dominik's new movie is dark, intensely stylized, magnificent and poetic, despite some extremely violent and pessimistic scenes. He shows an America imploding thanks to capitalism, where gangsters and the mafia have not been spared the effects of the financial crisis. While James Gandolfini as a nasty, alcoholic killer and sex-fiend who's being cheated on is great, it's Brad Pitt who best sums up the situation in what's sure to become a cult tagline: "America is not a country, it's a business."