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Easy Money Reviews
First in a series of three films - watch in order as the storyline develops. Poor Swedish guy, JW, gets dragged into the brutality of the hidden, criminal clashes of the different ethnic mafias in Sweden. What is strong about this film is the gradual build up of the characters, with their varying loyalties, their strong codes of honour, which forces them into acts of brutality.
Great film although veers toward cliche towards the end.
Every inch a thriller with a proper all-bets-are-off finale, and a clever reworking of ancient themes of family, love and treachery.
Director of "Safe House" brings his look at the drug trade in Sweden. Somewhere between the raw "Pusher" trilogy and the epic "Drug War". If it seems too good to be true it probably is. A man with no family tries to make it into the 1% with drugs.
Wow! what a great film, excellent story, superb acting. everything was on point the action & drama done just right.
What an amazing film. I went into this movie virtually blind. I had recently gained an interest in the lead actor, Joel Kinnaman, and after seeing him in the 온라인카지노추천 series 'The Killing' I wanted to see him in more! I didn't let the subtitles put me off and I waded in. I'm so glad I did. It's a powerful piece of drama. If Joel starts to get the right parts in Hollywood he is going to have an amazing career. I'm now really looking forward to seeing where this story goes in Easy Money 2.
For A Foreign Film It Wasn't Too Bad, However..Understanding The Cultural Nuance Of Things Was Difficult At Times As The Tone Gets Lost With A Quite Choppy Story. Part Action / Part Emotional Rollercoastet..Leave It At That.
It's another crime thriller about a guy who wishes he had more than life has dealt him, gets a quick and easy step in and soon finds he is way out of his depth. It's a familiar story but it's done reasonably well. The first half of the movie does run a little slow but the second half makes up for it with tension and double crosses everywhere you look. It certainly made me want to catch the sequel so it was worth watching
Another great reason to love a good Scandinavian thriller. Another great $1.68 DVD bin find.
EASY MONEY is well-acted and relentless, but this Swedish crime thriller suffers from bloated direction. Read full review >> http://caseymoviemania.blogspot.com/2013/11/easy-money-euff-2013.html
Easy Money is an engrossing Swedish crime drama involving three interconnecting yet separate narratives that weave together to form one larger all-encompassing story. The film is directed by Daniel Espinosa (Safe House) and is based upon the 2006 novel by Jen Lapidus of the same name. Three men -- JW, Jorge and Mrado -- lead distinctively separate lives and each are unknown to one another; but as their stories move forward it becomes obvious that their lives will soon find themselves intersecting with one another and as their stories build in tension and desperation it is uncertain what fate will have in store for each of them when their stories all finally converge. The three men each find themselves caught up and entangled to various degrees in the criminal underworld of Stockholm. JW is a small-time identity thief studying economics at university but in order to maintain the high standard of living his new girlfriend expects of him, he begins to deal cocaine which connects him to former convict Jorge who just broke out of prison and wants revenge on those who snitched on him putting him behind bars. Jorge is after Mrado's boss -- a Serbian mafia kingpin who is one of the heads of the Stockholm underworld. The most recognizable star is Joel Kinnaman ('The Killing', Lola Versus, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) who plays naïve JW who ends up being the moral center of the film. Easy Money was highly successful in Europe and it won such acclaim that it attracted the attention of Martin Scorsese who some say took such a liking to the film he is the one who released it stateside (which isn't actually true). Easy Money has two already-filmed sequels that I look forward to seeing in the near future ... this clearly means I recommend Easy Money to those who like this genre of film. It is a smart, slick, stylish, subtitled (shucks -- remember it's Swedish!) and suspenseful piece of work!
Scandinavian thriller. Raw. Fast pace. Thrills. Betrayal. Torn between two. Dilemma. Easy Money spins of independent with grace.
OK, but I have always had problems with films that don't have a single likable character in them.
In absolutely no way related to the goofy 1983 Rodney Dangerfield flick of the same name, Easy Money is a Swedish export full of gang violence, backstabbing and really quite wonderful acting. A recent release here in Ireland, the movie follows three main characters whose individual stories progressively overlap and eventually explode in a super dramatic climatic zenith towards the end. Gritty and darkly subversive, Easy Money is one of the most intense dramas I've seen in a long time. JW (Joel Kinnaman) is an economics student at Stockholm University, who drives taxis, pushes drugs and parties with the bourgeois in his free time to fund his education. Jorge (Mattias Padin Varela) opens the film with an inventive yet undeniably plausible prison break, although subsequent events clearly show that he hasn't become a law-abiding citizen. Mrado (Dragomir Mrsic, a real-life reformed bank robber) is also involved in the narcotics trade, though being recently burdened with a daughter he may be investigating more wholesome career paths. This trio of dramas expose the layered aspect of organised crime, while simultaneously reminding us that even hardened criminals are, in fact, human beings. Easy Money is brought to us by Daniel Espinosa, the director of 2012?s disappointing Safe House. While that film was marred by a clunky script and embarrassingly bad editing, his latest endeavour suffers no such abnormalities. Through a myriad of accents and languages (Swedish, German, Spanish, English, Serbian and Albanian all get an airing) we are treated to memorable characters and powerful dialogue; certain scenes pack such a dramatic punch that they are genuinely jaw-dropping. One moment in particular at an illegal dog pound is beyond harrowing. Trundling along as it does at breakneck speed, we scarcely have time to savour a beautiful shot or cathartic scene before we're whisked away to one of the other parallel storylines. It's this unflinching sense of pacing that really makes the movie fly by - it's one of those misleading two-hour films that feels like half its actual length. Nefarious dealings are propped up by random bursts of beautiful cinematography - from sunsets to people lying bloodied in nightclub toilets, this movie is certainly a winner in the visuals department. Leagues ahead of any crime thriller Hollywood has produced in recent months, Easy Money is an exciting and powerful drama that packs plenty of dramatic punches. The performances are all great, the story is involving, the art direction is impressive.... This movie rocks. It's no Godfather,but then again, neither is anything else... Except The Godfather.