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Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Ca$h has an obnoxiously tongue in cheek title, and a premise that could have easily run off the rails into the silly zone. But rejoice: It knows how to create a tense, unpredictable environment accented by the slightest bits of naturally occurring humour here and there, a winning combination indeed. Sean Bean doesn't often get a movie to himself, or at least get to play the lead. Here's he's the top dog, and while most would argue that he's the antagonist as well, I'm in the opposite corner on that one. Yes he's a criminal, yes he goes to extreme lengths to get his money back, but he's a rigidly disciplined and staunchly fair bloke, driven by a set of principles and operational tics that reek of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and trust me, it takes one to know one. Oh, and he gets to play identical twins as well, pulling a Parent Trap and acting opposite himself which is a delight to see. When reckless career criminal Reese Kubrick (Bean) dicks up a robbery, loses a bunch of money and gets apprehended, a young couple think they have hit the jackpot. Played by Chris Hemsworth and Victoria Profeta, they find the money and make that fateful cinematic mistake of trying to keep it for themselves. Before they know it, Reese's brother Pyke (also Bean) comes looking for them, and believe me when I say that this guy is a dude who finds what he's looking for. Fast. The young couple has already begun to indulge, and as Pyke barges into their lives he finds a great deal of the amount spent. He then buckles down and calmly, coolly forces them to come up with every remaining cent of the 'deficit', as he calls it, even if it means doing a bit of illegal stuff themselves. Bean has a ball as the icy cool, ruthlessly efficient prick who plays hardball with a glint in his eye. He's karma manifest, a very real and very dangerous metaphor for the perilous risk of excessive currency and ill gotten gains. It's a terrific role for him, both in the moments of dangerous serenity and the few rare instances where he loses his cool streak, which sting like daggers. Hemsworth and Profeta play their standard roles very nicely. An arbitrary bit of fun: the actor Glenn Plummer shows up for a hysterical cameo as a dude named, I kid you not, Glenn The Plumber, who receives a whollop of a verbal beatdown from Bean that serves as the film's most lighthearted moment, and is a riot for anyone who gets the reference. Snuck into limited DVD release back in 2010, this one deserves more than the small shelf space it's gotten. Fun stuff.

Although the execution of this film is only so-so - it straddles the line between crime thriller and quirky comedy and is not quite successful in either genre - I'd recommend watching it for Sean Bean alone. For this is a film that Bean completely dominates, appearing in almost every scene, with tons of dialogue and acting opportunity, and acting everyone else off the screen in the process.It almost feels like the film has been written as a tribute to Bean and I'm not complaining. He's a hoot as a criminal dedicated to tracking down every cent of his stolen cash, bringing plenty of his trademark deadpan humour to the part. Bean exerts an air of authority, of quiet menace, like few other actors and his presence here is second to none. His character is a guy who rarely has to resort to violence, instead controlling people through his personality alone. He's fantastic, the best I've seen him in years.The rest of the film is okay, but the director can't hide the fact that most of the budget was spent on getting Bean and the rest of it feels rather cheap and lacklustre. It's amusing to see Chris Hemsworth, pre-THOR fame, appearing here and giving a rather weak performance in contrast to Bean. And the ending is one of the lamest cop-outs I've seen in a good while. Thank God Bean is here to distract us from these shortcomings.

Anybody that actually paid cash to see Ca$h probably was asking for a refund. This simplistic, well, I hesitate to call it a story, was one of the most moronic movies I ever wasted my time on. Fortunately I caught it on Epix and did not have to specifically pay for it. It was one of those movies that you start watching and think, wow, this is awful, I wonder if it can get any worse? And boy does it! It just digs about the deepest a hole a movie could dig for itself, and then it dies in it. So unrealistic and cheap looking. Save your money and time. The lead character is so overplayed, it is amusing. Moreover, he is probably the biggest wuss ever, which begs the question why the guy that plays Thor just doesn't clobber him already.

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.