Easy Money Review

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.

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A class-conscious Scandinavian crime film whose impact is dulled by some extraneous subplots, Daniél Espinosa's Easy Money nevertheless makes a solid vehicle for Joel Kinnaman.

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JW is played brilliantly by Joel Kinnaman, who is familiar to American audiences of "The Killing" on AMC.

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So sobering an example of why crime doesn't pay that it could be shown to petty drug thugs to scare them straight.

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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.

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Well acted and acutely observed, the film doesn't try to be a conventionally satisfying coke-land action film.

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One of the most involving of the many first-rate thrillers that have come recently from Scandinavia.

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This jazzy crime melodrama is engrossing and exhilarating because of Espinosa's impressive command of a wide range of filmmaking skills.

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