Ca$h (2010)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Too much of everything

Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The Pandora's Box theme is a pretty common theme in crime films. Someone finds a suitcase full of cash (Shallow Grave) or something else of great value in the most ordinary of places.In this story a suitcase full of cash literally falls into the main character's lap. In the most satisfying scene of the movie (a bad sign if this scene occurs early in the film as it does here), our down on his luck blue collar hero uses the cash to pay off bad debt, sticking it up their bank manager's nose in the process. Great scene. The villain vanquished, the hero returns to his home the victor to share in the spoils with his equally "beautiful people" wife.The only trouble is, it belongs to Sean Bean, who comes after the money with all the vengeance of Ned Stark looking for his missing head. Once Ned ... whatever his name is in the movie ... finds our lovely but temporarily rich couple, he shacks up with them and the movie descends into a weak 21st century version of Fun With Dick and Jane (1977), minus the witty dialogue and great acting of that crime caper classic, in that "Ned" demands Jane and Joe Schmuck turn to a life of crime in order to pay back what little amount they had time to spend.Bet you didn't see that coming? Well I did. So I'm only giving it a 6/10

If you don't like spoilers, please be warned.Right from the beginning I had a hard time not screaming at the screen. It felt like these characters were guaranteed to do the exact opposite of a rational person any time an important decision needed to be made. I'm sorry to say this, but they came off to me like well acted idiots.I won't pretend I didn't like the performances. I gave this movie two stars because... well, ask yourself this question: What would you do if a bunch of money landed on the hood of your car? Now imagine a movie about two people who do things that are far stupider (yes I said "stupider") than that. If you could find these people and get your money back, wouldn't you? So would I, but not the way Bean's character did.It ended up feeling like one stupid decision after another that ended these characters up in the dumbest situation I can imagine, and I'm pretty creative. Hardly any of it felt right, and I found it difficult to really root for any of the characters. Honestly, I kind of wanted Bean's character to get away with it and kill these morons by the end. I know that's bad, but at least I'm honest.This movie's one redeeming quality is a scene between Bean and Cheadle where he calls him on what I considered to be a very important bluff. If the rest of the movie were as ballsy as that scene, we might have had ourselves a movie. Well, at least it wasn't another predictable series of clichés like Hollywood so often produces these days.

Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie are facing financial problems to pay their mortgage after a period of unemployment.While driving his old Buick below an overpass, a case falls onto the hood of the car and he finds that there are more than six hundred thousand dollars inside.Sam and Leslie quit their job; pay their mortgage; buy a Land Rover; and refurnish their house. Meanwhile a British criminal arrives from London to visit his brother Reeve in jail.He tells his brother that he threw the stolen money away to destroy the evidences of the heist, and saw a Caucasian in an old car retrieving the case.Pyke chases and finds Sam and partially retrieves the money, but more than seventy-four thousand dollars have been spent by the couple and Pyke wants them to refund the amount in five days.....it starts off really well, a totally offbeat movie, that could be lost in any genre, but soon turns into a by the book thriller. Bean owns this movie from the moment he appears, and he is the reason that this film works. he is menacing without showing it, and Obessessed with money, which is clearly shown from the number of times he easily deducts sums of money in his head.But where Bean succeeds, the the other two stars fail miserably. Hemsworth starts out really good, but by the beginning of the third act, he's annoying, and it feels like he is copying his lines. Bean asks him to do do something, Hemsworth says no, menacing look from Bean, so on and so on.Halfway through the film, in my opinion, Leslies character should have been killed, as she is the most annoying on of all, not knowing which side to bat for, and embarrassingly enjoying the robberies.So for the first half of the film, it's a superb satire on the media, bending stories about money, and obsession.The rest lets it down, but well worth seeing for Bean.

Not all movies are made to be artistic or masterpieces. This is just a random criminal/drama movie that can be entertaining depending on who's watching. It definitely has flaws but had a lot of unintentional weirdly funny scenes. It was an entertaining movie and that's it; nothing special. Still, the movie was a lot better than 80% of the crap movies these days that do half ass job trying to imitate classic movies from the 70' and the 80's.The characters' dialogue script writing was a little amateurish but oh well.......It's a good movie to pass free time!