Easy Money is a smart, affecting, slow burn of a movie, a spectacular example of Nordic noir. The sequel suffers by comparison, though. I’m “biast” (pro): have a soft spot for Joel Kinnaman
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
If you’ve enjoyed the new remake of RoboCop — or even if you didn’t — you can’t go wrong by checking out newly minted Hollywood leading man Joel Kinnaman in a fantastic film made on his home turf of Sweden. (Were you fooled by Kinnaman’s flawless American accent? He’s not American.) Easy Money, from 2010, had only a small release in North America in 2012, unsurprising given the general lack of interest by U.S. audiences in reading subtitles. Its similarly limited release in the U.K. in 2013 is surprising, however, because...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
If you’ve enjoyed the new remake of RoboCop — or even if you didn’t — you can’t go wrong by checking out newly minted Hollywood leading man Joel Kinnaman in a fantastic film made on his home turf of Sweden. (Were you fooled by Kinnaman’s flawless American accent? He’s not American.) Easy Money, from 2010, had only a small release in North America in 2012, unsurprising given the general lack of interest by U.S. audiences in reading subtitles. Its similarly limited release in the U.K. in 2013 is surprising, however, because...
- 2/19/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Director: Daniel Espinosa; Screenwriters: Daniel Espinosa, Maria Karlsson; Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic, Lisa Henni, Mahmut Suvakci; Running time: 124 mins; Certificate: 15
Up-and-comer Joel Kinnaman will be donning the visor for a remake of RoboCop next year, but this crime thriller is a low-tech affair made in his native Sweden. It's not short on ambition, though. Writer/director Daniel Espinosa, who has also been singled out by Hollywood bigwigs (and recently helmed Denzel Washington thriller Safe House) wrestles a sprawling novel into shape.
Still, a little patience is required early on as he flits between the daily tribulations of economics student Jw (Kinnaman), Chilean fugitive Jorge (Matias Varela) and Serbian hired muscle Mrado (Dragomir Mrsic). Initially, Jorge appears to be the star of the show, pulling off a daring prison escape while Jw drives his cab and hits the books, dreaming of a better life.
Meanwhile, Mrado is lumbered...
Up-and-comer Joel Kinnaman will be donning the visor for a remake of RoboCop next year, but this crime thriller is a low-tech affair made in his native Sweden. It's not short on ambition, though. Writer/director Daniel Espinosa, who has also been singled out by Hollywood bigwigs (and recently helmed Denzel Washington thriller Safe House) wrestles a sprawling novel into shape.
Still, a little patience is required early on as he flits between the daily tribulations of economics student Jw (Kinnaman), Chilean fugitive Jorge (Matias Varela) and Serbian hired muscle Mrado (Dragomir Mrsic). Initially, Jorge appears to be the star of the show, pulling off a daring prison escape while Jw drives his cab and hits the books, dreaming of a better life.
Meanwhile, Mrado is lumbered...
- 7/15/2013
- Digital Spy
There’s a new director in town, garnering the attention of action-film lovers. Less than half a year after the release of Safe House, starring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, Director Daniêl Espinosa is back with a visually alluring film called Easy Money.
The new film stars Joel Kinnaman of AMC’s The Killing. There isn’t much dialogue in the new trailer from The Weinstein Company. The trailer focuses on giving you a visual glimpse at a social arena of wealth depravity, which inevitably leads to violence.
Editor’S Pick: Interview With Daniel Espinosa
Easy Money is based on the novel by Jens Lapidus and stars Kinnaman, Matias Padin Varela, Dragomir Mrsic, Lisa Henni, Dejan Čukić, Annika Whittembury, Lea Stojanov, and Fares Fares.
Watch the trailer below:
Easy Money opens in theaters on July 11, 2012.
Story:
Directed by Daniêl Espinosa (Safe House), Easy Money is a Swedish crime thriller based...
The new film stars Joel Kinnaman of AMC’s The Killing. There isn’t much dialogue in the new trailer from The Weinstein Company. The trailer focuses on giving you a visual glimpse at a social arena of wealth depravity, which inevitably leads to violence.
Editor’S Pick: Interview With Daniel Espinosa
Easy Money is based on the novel by Jens Lapidus and stars Kinnaman, Matias Padin Varela, Dragomir Mrsic, Lisa Henni, Dejan Čukić, Annika Whittembury, Lea Stojanov, and Fares Fares.
Watch the trailer below:
Easy Money opens in theaters on July 11, 2012.
Story:
Directed by Daniêl Espinosa (Safe House), Easy Money is a Swedish crime thriller based...
- 6/25/2012
- by Bags Hooper
- BuzzFocus.com
About half way through Easy Money (or its untranslated, much punchier Swedish title, Snabba Cash) one of the criminal heavies tells a story about being trapped in an elevator as a small child with a friend where they pried the doors of the elevator open and climbed up to the floor above. The elevator was half-way stuck between floors. The friend realized he forgot his sweater and went back for it, yet when climbing out for the second time, the elevator re-activated and tore the poor lad in half. Normally I am not a fan of such heavy handed symbolism explicitly in the dialogue (shades of Paul Haggis, maybe), but in a film such as this, whose goal is to completely re-purpose the gangster and 'big score' straight up genre picture into a more character based morality tale, a sign post or two cannot hurt. There are constant punctuations of...
- 10/12/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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