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Easy Money: Hard to Kill

2012 · 1h 39m Action, Crime, Drama
Directed by Babak Najafi

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Overview

JW 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's developed, and while behind bars he'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've walked in the shoes of a criminal there just may be no going back.

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Fresh

Thin, intense and yet somehow cool, Kinnaman is on his way to stardom, and it's easy to see how these movies gave him lift off. This is a tough, crackling crime story, well-executed and tense throughout.

Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh

A deep pool of underworld characters and a focus on multicultural tensions in Stockholm lend crime drama some added interest in "Easy Money: Hard to Kill" ...

Tom Russo, Boston Globe
Rotten

Because JW isn't the strutting, duplicitous peacock he was in the first movie, the role isn't as rewarding this time out.

Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten

Though "Hard to Kill" forges new ground on the rich character histories developed in the first film, they feel like a random trio assigned the same punishment whose lives eventually intersect - and as such, the emotional moments never land.

Inkoo Kang, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

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

Kyle Smith, New York Post

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