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A swift scan of the week's top half-dozen releases reaffirms this axiom: When the big release is a Gerard Butler romantic comedy, a better time will be had in every other corner of the cineplex. Chief among the alternatives ought to be Killing Them Softly, which reunites star Brad Pitt with director Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James … ) in a downbeat thriller that sports a metaphorical 1970s leather jacket. Pitt is the only kind of movie star who can get a film like this made, but sadly, even at his great age, he is seemingly still too cherubic to pull off a character as mean as he's supposed to be.
Also from the '80s, Van Damme and Lundgren trade blows in Universal Soldier Day of Reckoning, another incomprehensible addition to their weird cyborg franchise.
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