Film Review – Easy Money

“Easy Money” separates itself from the crime picture competition with its attention to the nuance of character, not the spellbinding flashes of illegal activity. It’s a raw effort, using a Euro financial crisis atmosphere to engineer a new form of troublemaking, though there’s nothing here that snowballs into a light caper. Instead, “Easy Money” is dark and emotionally textured, keeping the patient rewarded with a genuine depiction of bothered souls caught between dreams of responsibility and the danger of survival. It’s not a film of predictability or resolution, but grit, with director Daniel Espinosa (last winter’s “Safe House”) finding a fascinating tone of helplessness to forcefully slice through the expected tough guy attitude. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com