In the final part of the Snabba
cash trilogy based on Jens Lapidus’s novels we find Johan ‘JW’ Westland
(Joel Kinnaman whose latest film Child 44
is on general release) in Los Angeles trying to discover how his missing sister
died, with Jorge Salinas Barrio (Matias Varela) determined to carry out one
last very high value hoist so he can build a hotel on the sun kissed coast of
Mexico and retire to a life of luxury with Nadja (Madeline Martin) his
girlfriend. Making a far greater impression
than in the first two films, we see an awful lot more of the vicious Mafia
gangster and suspected Serbian war criminal Radovan Kroynec (Dejan Cukic), but
unbeknown to him the police have infiltrated his criminal organisation via a
young recruit Martin Hagerstrom (Martin Wallstrom) who against all the odds
falls in love with Radovan’s sinisterly attractive daughter Natalie (Malin
Buska).
....plus a rather sinister lady. |
In Easy Money 3: Life Deluxe (2013) we
find yet another director in the chair, this time its Jen Jonsson who was
responsible for the story and the screenplay. Although this final part is more
exciting than Easy Money 2: Hard to Kill (2012) and does have some very good action
packed sequences there always appears to be to much going on, giving the viewer
a very complicated narrative to digest, that at times is hard to follow. So
much so that the films jumps backwards and forwards between timespans to help
explain the ‘whys and wherefores’ of each situation which in my opinion is
cheap story telling or just maybe the director is not doing a good enough job.
To sum up the trilogy the first part, Easy Money (2010) is certainly the
best of the three movies and indeed is the one you should not miss.
The End. |
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