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People are voting emotionally.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This film tells the story of a married couple who lands themselves almost seven hundred thousand dollars that literally falls out from the sky. However, it's rightful owner tracks them down and demands every cent of the money they have taken and spent. "Cash" may sound like an interesting idea, that a couple undergoes changes that they could never imagine. Chris Hemsworth and his on screen wife form a sweet couple who are honest and innocent. The guy who wants the money back, however, counts every cent even though he has recovered most of the money. It gets super tedious and even ridiculous that the characters in the film keep counting cents every minute. Why keep counting the cents when you can count in hundreds of thousands? It makes the film so annoying, and it's more like an accountant's wet dream.

The film looks like a cheap knock off of The Desperate Hours with hints of dark comedy and cheap racism. Just look at the way the Sikh character is treated and even Glenn the Plumber.Sam Phelan (Chris Hemsworth) and his wife Leslie (Victoria Profeta) are facing debt problems. While driving his old Buick a case full of money lands on his bonnet. With this windfall they quit their jobs, pay their debts off, buy a fancy car and things for their house.Pyke Kubic (Sean Bean) comes to town from the UK to help out his twin brother, Reese who was involved in the robbery and threw the money over before he was arrested. Reese remembers what kind of car it landed on.Pyke traces Sam and retrieves what is left of the money. However through threats, psychological and physical, he also wants the seventy four thousand dollars that the couple have spent.The film has an off beat premise has first Pyke traces the culprit by finding out who purchased an expensive car with cash. Once he finds Sam, he makes the couple retrieve the cash before he decides he wants to them to pay back every cent.The film was made before Hemsworth bulked up as Thor as Sam is rather bland although Profeta is very mouthy as his irate wife. Bean keeps things interesting as the smart villain who can get very nasty but the film goes off the rails as the couple end up robbing liquor stores to make up the shortfall. Surely Pyke would had realised he would had lost everything if he had got caught with them.The film looks too much like a straight to DVD movie, rather cheaply made and even though offbeat its only mildly interesting.

If you don't like spoilers, please be warned.Right from the beginning I had a hard time not screaming at the screen. It felt like these characters were guaranteed to do the exact opposite of a rational person any time an important decision needed to be made. I'm sorry to say this, but they came off to me like well acted idiots.I won't pretend I didn't like the performances. I gave this movie two stars because... well, ask yourself this question: What would you do if a bunch of money landed on the hood of your car? Now imagine a movie about two people who do things that are far stupider (yes I said "stupider") than that. If you could find these people and get your money back, wouldn't you? So would I, but not the way Bean's character did.It ended up feeling like one stupid decision after another that ended these characters up in the dumbest situation I can imagine, and I'm pretty creative. Hardly any of it felt right, and I found it difficult to really root for any of the characters. Honestly, I kind of wanted Bean's character to get away with it and kill these morons by the end. I know that's bad, but at least I'm honest.This movie's one redeeming quality is a scene between Bean and Cheadle where he calls him on what I considered to be a very important bluff. If the rest of the movie were as ballsy as that scene, we might have had ourselves a movie. Well, at least it wasn't another predictable series of clichés like Hollywood so often produces these days.

This is a movie that you watch, get some fun out of it and forget when it's over. And this is meant as a compliment.We might argue what the purpose of cinema is, but Ca$h has an entertaining story with premises that are mostly believable. The cast delivers an overall decent performance. However, with less known actors it would have been just one of many B-movies.Sean Bean is excellent and there is no need to elaborate on that. Chris Hemsworth reveals his limitations as an actor. When you see him in Ca$h you understand he's been a logical choice for the role of Thor which came out roughly a year later. Victoria Profeta was my treat in the movie. With her looks and skills i wonder where she'd been before and makes me ponder what it takes to make it in Hollywood.