Saturday, 2 June 2018

Easy Money

(Daniel Espinosa/2010/Sweden)

A crime thriller that winds three stories around each other quite successfully to keep the story engaging and moving til the end. There’s a low level drug dealer involved with an Albanian crime gang, a hitman for a rival Serbian gang and a young Swedish man living a double life posing as a wealthy playboy by day and moonlighting as a taxi driver whilst studying to try and fund his fake lifestyle. Their three lives become inextricably linked and dependant on each other. The level of character development and realness of their situations goes a long way to raising the story above the usual crime thriller plot but where it goes slightly awry is ending as a kind of morality tale. Doing bad things is bad mmkay. But this aside it’s a decent watch and surprisingly pacy for a Swedish crime drama.

(2.5/5)

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