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Easy Money II(Snabba Cash II)

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Sweden · 2012
1h 39m
Director Babak Najafi
Starring Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic, Fares Fares
Genre Crime, Thriller, Drama

JW is serving hard time in prison and struggling to get back on an honest path. On leave from prison, and back in contact with his former gang, JW learns that once you've walked in the shoes of a criminal there just may be no going back.

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The A.V. Club by A.A. Dowd

True to its franchise roots, the film is atmospheric, well acted, and frustratingly intent on draining every last drop of pleasure from the genre-movie conventions it cannibalizes.

70

The Dissolve by Chris Klimek

Rarely has a life beyond the law seemed less enticing than it does in Babak Najafi’s bleak crime picture. It’s unrelentingly intense and utterly humorless, but there’s no denying the skill and brio with which it unspools.

75

The Playlist by Jessica Kiang

It’s a sequel that, over a tighter running time, kicks against the law of diminishing returns, and only succumbs to it after a fight.

60

Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf

Too many characters contribute to a dulling of the cross-cultural spark found in the original (and in the better-known A Prophet). Kinnaman doesn’t have as much to play with this time — without his double life, he’s just an unsmooth criminal.

75

New York Post by Kyle Smith

Najafi stages action scenes with an intense, queasy beauty and elevates what is in its outlines a routine crime drama to near-operatic proportions.

70

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

For the second film, Babak Najafi has succeeded Daniel Espinosa as director. The structure here is more mechanical, and the ambience scruffier, as the complicated story shifts from one disreputable lowlife to another.

50

Village Voice by Zachary Wigon

Not fully understanding its own merits, Easy Money is accidentally fascinating in some moments, but purposefully formulaic in many more.

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