646f9e108c JW (Joel Kinnaman, Robocop, The Killing), the promising business student who became an organized coke smuggler in Easy Money, is serving hard time in prison and struggling to get back on an honest path. There are glimmers of hope in his life - some venture capitalists are interested in a new piece of trading software he&#39;s developed, and while behind bars he&#39;s made peace with an old enemy. This all proves to be an illusion. On leave from prison, and back in contact with his former gang, JW learns that once you&#39;ve walked in the shoes of a criminal there just may be no going back. This was one of the movies I was looking forward to see this year. (That said, I didn&#39;t have high expectations, I was only looking forward to see it)<br/><br/>Mostly I was curious of how they would build things up after a so well-written and trustworthy predecessor. I was a bit disappointedthe movie turned out to be like most movies in the genre. The movie is worth watching, but compared to Snabba Cash /Easy money it&#39;s not a worthy followup.<br/><br/>Easy Money was based on a book by a writer who has got direct contact with people involved in this kind of criminal activities, which made it trustworthy, down to earth but still exciting in a Swedish environment.<br/><br/>Easy Money 2 however, is loosely based on the trilogy of these books, which makes the movie lack of facts, reliability and makes it &quot;just another movie&quot; in the genre.<br/><br/>The actors do play their part in this movie, the screenplay is however not that good, which makes the overall experience worse.<br/><br/>Give it a shot, and see for yourself, but try to see itjust a movie that have the same charactersanother movie, don&#39;t watch it if you&#39;re looking for a good sequel. The first one was a small sensation. Can Swedes make crime movies, which won&#39;t be ridiculed and parodied the week after? Yes, they could.<br/><br/>The same can be said about the sequel. The story is more unlikely this time and there are some more clichés, but the characters are anyway not square. They are hoodlums with complications and there&#39;s a well functioning story-telling with passable action scenes.<br/><br/>Not that you believe posh Stockholm being like that and why should you believe it about the subs? But movies like this have their own agenda, for better and for worse. This is for better. Can be watched, if you don&#39;t have anything more exciting going on in your own life. 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.
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