Armand and nothing more. at first sigh. because the script is not an inspired one and the idea too seductive for explore in the best manner. the acting is far to be bad but not more than decent. a film about a suitcase with money and large references to The Box. but, unfortunately, it is not enough. so, the decent job of Sean Bean who looks to create a mix of humor and thriller who is only in few scenes reasonable. a film of a great idea. not bad, not good, only an exercise to use different ingredients, few actors and crumbs of action movies for a story who could be interesting but remains only chain of conventional solutions.

chris-3493 Not a great movie, poor script and weak acting from all the main protagonists. The plot line is, as an earlier review, alluded to, very simplistic although although not as much as many other crime movies. I had the misfortune to see Bruce Willis in 'cop out' the other day which made this seem unbelievably complex in comparison. The earlier reviewer got a few things wrong. The scene where Sam And his wife leave for the day is, badly done granted, a flashback to before he comes across the cash. Sam endures a sleepless night worrying about money and the impending bank manager. Presumably he was on his way to the bank when the case fell on to his car and this is why he was 5 minutes late. In short, the first opportunity he gets, back home with his wife, he does count the cash. Secondly, the greeting to the manager of "my banker" wasn't for the viewers benefit but was a sarcastic salutation to show how Sam no longer regarded his position as subservient to the bank manager, heavy handed but really quite obvious. Thirdly, the scene with the black guy wasn't great but Sean Bean's accent wasn't Irish, nor was it anywhere else in the film, but broad Sheffield in Yorkshire where Sean Bean is from. I did find the start a bit puzzling as we saw a short haul BA 737 landing at a UK airport only to find Sean Bean walking out into a US car lot. Simple stuff like this should have died with the 70's.

FlashCallahan 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.

Wizard-8 "Cash" has an irresistible premise: What if you came across a huge amount of money? If you decide to keep it, what would happen if the owner came looking for it? The first seventy-five minutes of the movie are pretty captivating. The beginning of the movie playfully jumps back and forth in time, giving us the setup piece by piece until we know fully who is who and what's going on. But as the movie goes on, the whole movie is stolen by Sean Bean. He is absolutely GREAT as the "fixer" brought in to solve the problem. He's not only a scary character, but he has a whole bunch of little touches (like pausing to drink from a kitchen faucet before starting a beatdown) that keep us interested in him and stop him from becoming one-note.Mostly because of Bean, I am recommending the movie. However, I have to admit that the movie has some serious flaws that prevent it from being a GREAT movie. We learn next to nothing about the protagonists before they get the money. When Bean enters their lives and starts terrifying them, they come across as more perplexed than scared. And although they own their own home, for some reason they don't get a mortgage that would more than pay for their remaining debt to Bean. The last half hour of the movie gets somewhat absurd when Bean forces the couple to rob convenience stores to pay the balance of their debt. Still, there's enough good stuff here to make the movie worth renting at your local video once it moves off the new release shelf to the catalog section.