'Killing Them Softly' trailer: Brad Pitt hunts two lowlifes to the tune of Johnny Cash

The first trailer for the Brad Pitt underworld thriller Killing Them Softly is light on plot, and heavy on moody atmospherics, from the smoke slowly wafting from Pitt’s goatee-ringed mouth to the killer use of Johnny Cash’s “The Man Comes Around.” The film won raves when it premiered at Cannes for Pitt’s performance as a mob enforcer tasked with tracking down two lowlifes who robbed a mobbed up poker game. Check out the trailer below:

Killing Them Softly, which reunites Pitt with writer-director Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford), opens on Oct. 19.

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