Easy Money
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76 out of 100

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7.4 out of 10

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  • Starring: Dragomir Mrsic, Joel Kinnaman, Lisa Henni, Mahmut Suvakci, Matias Padin
  • Summary: Easy Money is a Swedish crime thriller based on the international best-selling novel Snabba Cash by Jens Lapidus. Lower-class business student JW falls in love with a sexy heiress while living a double life mingling with Stockholm’s wealthy elite. To keep up the façade of his lifestyle, he’se’s lured into a world of crime. Jorge is a petty fugitive on the run from both the police and Serbian mafia. He hopes that brokering a massive cocaine deal will allow him to escape for good. Mafia enforcer Mrado is on the hunt for Jorge, but his efforts are complicated when he’s unexpectedly saddled with caring for his young daughter. As JW’s journey ventures deeper into the dark world of organized crime, the fate of all three men becomes entangled and ends with a dramatic struggle for life and death. (The Weinstein Company)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 22 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 26
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  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    Jul 12, 2012
    100
    Easy Money may well be the crime film of the year, or the decade.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    Jul 10, 2012
    80
    In a director's note Mr. Espinosa describes his fascination with "the idea of thief's honor" and with portraying criminals who, from their point of view, "are trying to do good through their own ethics." And this soul-searching quest lends Easy Money a depth rarely found in gangster films.
  3. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Corliss
    Jul 12, 2012
    80
    Well acted and acutely observed, the film doesn't try to be a conventionally satisfying coke-land action film.
  4. Empire
    Reviewed by: Kim Newman
    May 20, 2013
    60
    There's plenty here to show why director Daniel Espinosa caught Hollywood's eye, even if this pre-Safe House crime drama holds few surprises.

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  1. MarcDoyle
    5
    I won't spend a ton of time on this review other than to say I anticipated this film extremely highly. I'm a fan of Joel Kinnaman from The Killing and Safe House, and the story looked terrific. Unfortunately, even though the acting is terrific (including the outstanding Serbian lead), the story just does NOT come together. Too many threads, not enough focus. I would have loved to have seen the writers give it another shot before they started filming.… Collapse
  2. CMC
    4
    This film is weak and feels like a TV production. Fast cutting and shaky cameras will only get you so far. Central casting did a good job, but all of the good acting is compromised by ridiculous overlays of attempted emotional depth. Do we really believe that the super-bad guys all have guilt, babies, and life-plans underneath all their badness? Not in this film for sure. The number of high reviews must point to the paucity of good films out there. The Talented Mr. Ripley this is not, although it wanted to be.… Expand

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