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- 2012
- R
- The Weinstein Company
- 2 h 4 m
- 2012
- R
- The Weinstein Company
- 2 h 4 m
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’s lured into a world of crime. Jorge is a petty ...
Directed By: Daniel Espinosa
- 2012
- R
- The Weinstein Company
- 2 h 4 m
- 2012
- R
- The Weinstein Company
- 2 h 4 m
Easy Money
75
6.5
Where to Watch
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’s lured into a world of crime. Jorge is a petty ...
Directed By: Daniel Espinosa
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
75
81% Positive
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
19% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
75
81% Positive
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
19% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
One of the most involving of the many first-rate thrillers that have come recently from Scandinavia.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 User Ratings
6.5
59% Positive
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
28% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
13% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 User Ratings
6.5
59% Positive
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
28% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
13% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
There's a lot I like about this gritty thriller based around the Serbian Mafia. You get an interesting insight into that world. The acting is fine, the characters are believable, but none of them are really likeable, even if you get shown that they have a human side. I suppose I'm old fashion and I like rooting for someone in a film. It's very full on, violent and intense with slick production and good music but a bit silly and contrived. Some odd moments that just make you laugh out loud. Like some guy in a room screaming in slow motion because he's had such a bad day
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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.
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Well acted and acutely observed, the film doesn't try to be a conventionally satisfying coke-land action film.
In some ways Easy Money recalls Steven Soderbergh's "Traffic." They have drug dealing in common, of course, but also a sense of constant swirl and density of onscreen population.
A hit in its native Sweden as "Snabba Cash," the English title is a piece of cheap irony; this is a crime thriller where no one gets away clean, and every action has its irrevocable reaction.
A story stretched thinly between two many characters, without the dynamism or momentum to keep itself charging onwards.
Betrayals will occur and loyalties will be tested, but it's the audience that ends up ripped off.
This is a very disappointing movie that amazingly is made somewhat tolerable by the commanding presence of lead actor Joel Kinnaman. His portrayal of the naive chancer is so deserving of a better film. The story lacks context and focus and is surprisingly quite a drag lacking in any real tension,pace or cohesion. The last 20 minutes or so kick things into high gear, but for a two hour plus film it really is a case of too little too late.
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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.
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Production Company
Tre Vänner Produktion,
Film i Väst,
Nordisk Film,
Sveriges Television (SVT),
Nouvago Capital,
intervista digital media,
Network Movie Film-und Fernsehproduktion,
ZDF/Arte,
Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI),
Eurimages,
Nordisk Film & TV-Fond,
Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein,
Canal+
Release Date Jul 11, 2012
Duration 2 h 4 m
Rating R
Awards
Guldbagge Awards
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
