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Now that we know that everyone is a crook, having seen the movie, it's interesting that even the wife's mother stole part of the money she was given for safekeeping Of course, it's a fable, as the money drops out of the sky......from a van that Sean Bean is driving from a bank heist. He goes to jail and his twin brother comes along to go out and retrieve the money....which he does, every penny.

Don't see this movie if you have a pessimistic view toward your fellow man. The only legal crook they show is the loan officer, which was hilarious in view of the fact that bankers are now our worst crooks.

Sean Bean is the greatest actor today, as he can be in real stinkers and still shine. what an expert. Almost as good as inhabiting various roles as Laurence Olivier, but just the hunk version.

If you don't expect much of this movie, you'll enjoy it. The sheer racist and bigoted views expressed at the beginning are in a way hilarious, as they are definitely politically incorrect. But being as it was in Chicago, they should have had some anti-Catholic humor, if they're going to put down blacks, Muslims, Indians, loan officers, mothers-in-law, Asian shop keepers, 'innocent' young wives, and 'big strong' husbands.

Pretty interesting study in the effects of fear, and the Stockholm syndrome. The writer here knows his Freud.

Ca$h stars Sean Bean as Pyke, a criminal whose jailed brother tells him he had to let go of a ton of money during a car chase. It just happens that it falls on the roof of the car of Sam (Chris Hemsworth), a poor, don on his luck guy. Along with his wife, Leslie (Victoria Profeta), they automatically blow a lot of the money. It is then Pyke asks them to give them back the money they still have & pay him back the money they spent. That could be them trading in a car, or even robbing convenient stores. It's a good premise made into a fun movie, but it doesn't offer anything besides entertainment. There was already a movie like this called No Country For Old Men, so there's nothing original, and it's not really brave, but it's certainly entertaining. Bean, Profeta, and Hemsworth are all good, although Bean being the great actor that he is outshines both of the lesser actors. Ca$h does veer off into some unnecessary places, but it keeps the audience fully engaged most of the time, and Ca$h provides nice thrills and a decent social satire. The soundtrack by Jim Bianco is also excellent, and adds a lot to the film. So overall, I highly recommend this film for a matinée.

In Chicago, the workers Sam Phelan (Chris Hemsworth) and his wife Leslie (Victoria Profeta) are facing financial problems to pay their mortgage after a period of unemployment. While driving his old Buick below an overpass, Sam sees a wallet falling down on the hood 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 the British criminal Pyke Kubic (Sean Bean) arrives from London to visit his brother Reeve Kubic (Sean Bean) that is imprisoned and tells him that he had thrown the stolen money away to destroy the evidences of the heist but he had seen a Caucasian in an old car getting the wallet. Pyke chases and finds Sam and partially retrieves the money, but more than seventy-four thousand dollars have been spent by the greedy couple and Pyke wants them to refund the amount in five days.

"Ca$h" is an entertaining movie where everybody is corrupt in the end, even those that have been robbed and declare a larger amount to benefit with the insurance. Sean Bean performs a peculiar but very dangerous criminal with a great knowledge of economics. Chris Hemsworth is the typical American low middle class with a great alienation and lack of general culture and the unknown Victoria Profeta is hot and very funny with her big mouth. The screenplay is enjoyable and the resolution of the situation is satisfactory. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Reféns do Crime" ("Hostages of the Crime")

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.

In this day of cookie-cutter thrillers and Hollywood formula flicks, writer/director Stephen Milburn Anderson and producer Naveen Chathappuram bring us a film that shatters genre rules. It's a story about the power of money and how it manipulates human behavior. In a movie manufactured by Hollywood group-think, this film would have been about two innocent victims (Sam and Leslie) who struggle to make their mortgage payments and one day, during a police chase, a briefcase bursting with cash lands on their old car, they decide to keep the money and the bad guy comes looking for it. It would be the naive couple's story.

But Ca$h isn't that simple. The story starts with Pyke Kubic (Sean Bean), a Brit flying into Chicago to help out his twin brother, Reese (Sean Bean), whose cash-laden briefcase collided with law-abiding Sam's car. So Ca$h is a brother loyalty story. Besides, the brothers make a business deal: Pyke will recover Reese's cash and they'll split it 50/50.

The line blurs between the traditional antagonist and protagonist, especially as the story progresses. Pyke's unexpected accommodating manner and willingness to help Sam and Leslie collect the cash they stowed and recover the rest they spent, paint him as a likable character, not an evil antagonist. But Pyke has powers of persuasion, both intellectual and physical, and Pyke won't stop until he gets what he wants. So he moves in with Sam and Leslie until every last penny of the cash is back in the briefcase.

Pyke is a savant with numbers. When he learns from Leslie the exact tally of cash that was in the briefcase, he keeps a running tab in his mind of missing cash until every cent is replaced. There is a dark gleefulness in many of the scenes. Pyke escorts the couple to Leslie's mum's house, where they've left a large sum of the cash for safekeeping. They discover that Mum has "borrowed" $600 and Pyke says, "When it comes to cash, nobody can be trusted." When Pyke takes the couple to the banker who was foreclosing on their mortgage until Sam showed up with $7,000 in cash (from the briefcase of destiny), Pyke negotiates a brilliant deal with the bank to loan the couple $11,000.

Sean Bean's (Lord of the Rings, Flight Plan, Patriot Games, National Treasure) performance as Pyke is natural and intense. He draws the audience in with his character's centered calmness, unrelenting focus on his goal and precarious balance of civility and violence. Bean plays his character's genius for numbers and deal-making juxtaposed with his descent into thug-driven brutality, when absolutely necessary, with fluid complexity.

Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek, A Perfect Getaway) as Sam gives us a sympathetic, yet humanly flawed character who struggles briefly with the morally right thing to do. It's easy to accept Hemsworth as Sam. He looks like a nice guy; he acts like a nice guy until Pyke shoves Sam into the black hole of criminality. Hemsworth makes the tricky transition from respectable citizen to ruthless armed robber in a convincing arc of desperate acts.

Ca$h isn't a thriller in academic film terms. It's not a traditional action film, either. If the film must have a label, it is neo noir satire. Noir features a desperate protagonist who is an anti-hero. That certainly fits Sean Bean's Pyke/Reese characters. As the story progresses, it also fits Sam and Leslie as they begin to enjoy the power a gun brings to a moment of confrontation, when they're on the trigger end of the 9mm.

Writer/director Stephen Milburn Anderson wrote this script in the Nineties and sat on it until he could make the movie his way. Not giving in to the hellish Hollywood development machine, Anderson and his producers bring us a "genre" film gone rogue.

Just because Hollywood doesn't have the right-size box or label for Ca$h doesn't mean it's not a package worth opening. It's a surprising present of cinema delight and if you are fatigued with Hollywood drivel, Ca$h has your name on it.

Sean Bean plays a British bad guy and his twin brother in the Cook Co. Jail. His brother, Reese had a suitcase of illegal money which he tossed out the window while be chased by Chicago's finest. The suitcase lands on top of a Buick station wagon. Pyke, the brother who is not on jail is tasked to locate the money by following the cash being spent in Chicago (not realistic, but it gets us from point A to point B). Point B is Sam (Chris Hemsworth) and Leslie (Victoria Profeta) who have found the money. They are forced to give back the cash, but when they come up short because they had spent a few thousand of it, Pyke is not overly understanding.

The film is self described as a "twist-filled crime thriller." There were no significant twists, and the "thriller" aspect of the film was more akin to a 70's thriller than the fast paced modern films, and at times seemed a bit slow. I didn't find the acting as convincing as the other critics and Pyke's obsession was unrealistic...but without it there wouldn't be a story.

F-bomb, sex, no nudity.

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

Don't ever borrow money from a man like Pike Kubic! He is worse than a loan shark, because he will insist in getting the complete amount, down to the last penny. Pike, whose twin brother Reese has been serving a prison term, is called to Chicago to help recover the money his twin had to throw away as he was being chased by the cops after a heist of more than six hundred thousand dollars. The idea is to recover the loot and the twins to share the cash 50/50, something that makes Pike creative in trying to get his hands on the cash.

Lucky Sam Phelan happened to be in the right place as the bag was thrown. He cannot believe his good fortune. In fact, he and his wife, Leslie, are about to lose their home because they cannot come up with the money they own to the bank that lent them them money. With the found treasure, the Phelans begin to enjoy the good life, making purchases they would not have been able to afford otherwise.

Enter Pike. He is a suave type of criminal, only too intent in getting what he feels it is rightfully his. When he finds Sam and Leslie, he becomes their worst nightmare. Pike will make the couple do things they would have never thought possible. Pike wants them to pay exactly the full amount of the take, or else, they will suffer the consequences. When the Phelans thought it would be enough of things they have to sell to repay Pike, he decides it is about time they start holding up convenience stores all over Chicago so he can get the total owed to him. The Phelans, in the end, outmaneuver the menacing Pike in an ironic twist at the end, but little do they know that brother Reese will soon be free.

"Ca$h" is a film with a different angle on the genre in which criminals go after the people that get hold of the money they stole. Stephen Milburn Anderson, who also wrote the screenplay, inserts some humor into the story of the man that is not overly generous with what he perceives belongs to him. The film is easy on the eye as we follow the complicated ways of how the Phelans must act in order to give back the money that was not theirs to begin with. The penny pinching bandit is something that breaks the mold. After all, with so much money that was not his, why insist in getting the exact amount the Phelans got from him?

Sean Bean makes a good impression as Pike/Reese. The film is more of a fun tale, rather than a crime film, in spite of the menacing Pike appearance. Mr. Bean has a lot of fun playing the obnoxious bandit. Chris Hemsworth and Victoria Profeta play the Phelans.

So, this is a crime/action film where Sean Bean plays the bad guy, and because he plays the bad guy you can probably guess what ends up happening to him, though I will leave it at that because, well, that would be a spoiler. Actually, come to think of it, Sean Bean does have a reputation, so when he appears in a film as a bad guy, you can probably guess what happens. Well, sort of because he also plays the bad guys' twin brother, so there is that.

Anyway, this is a movie about a couple of working class individuals who are on the verge of losing their home (namely because they were unemployed, and considering that the film was released in 2010 it probably makes sense). Anyway, out of the blue a case full of money falls on their car, so they decide to use to to solve their problems. The problem is that it turns out that the owners of this money wants it back (well, okay, they aren't actually the owners since it is stolen, but you know what I mean), so they have to basically get it back.

Yeah, it wasn't a bad movie, in fact it was quite fun in part. Okay, yeah, it certainly wasn't all that realistic - if somebody was committing the number of armed robberies that these people were committing there is no way that they would get away with it. Then again, when has the movies been, well, realistic. I wouldn't even say that it is a new concept - I'm sure I've seen versions of it before. Still, I thought it was a fun film, so yeah, it's certainly worth watching. Then again Sean Bean is always a win.

That word alone could be a fair summary of Cash. Expectations were high after watching the small scene that Zune shows as a preview -when Sam pays his mortgage debts with part of the money he just found-, but that was just an illusion. I can't believe how Sean Bean decided to take a role in such a bad film.

This movie lacks originality, script, even rhythm. It shows some of the weirdest situations i've ever seen in a movie... How can the be so calm having a criminal -possibly murderer- in their own house? There is no moment in the movie in which the young couple sense any kind of fear at the sight of having to deal with a person who is assaulting their house and holding them captive. Acting flaws are pretty obvious in Victoria Profeta's part, transforming from one day to other from a silly housewife into a rabid, insult-obsessed girl with a liking to assault robbery for absolutely no reason.

This movie is absurd. Comedical without wanting it. Terribly simplistic and irrelevant. Spend your time with something funnier like, don't know, eating plastic or stomping your head to a wall.