To me, this movie is perfection.

How sad is this?

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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.

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.

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.

That word alone could be a fair summary of Cash. Expectations were high after watching the small scene that Zune shows as a preview -when Sam pays his mortgage debts with part of the money he just found-, but that was just an illusion. I can't believe how Sean Bean decided to take a role in such a bad film.This movie lacks originality, script, even rhythm. It shows some of the weirdest situations i've ever seen in a movie... How can the be so calm having a criminal -possibly murderer- in their own house? There is no moment in the movie in which the young couple sense any kind of fear at the sight of having to deal with a person who is assaulting their house and holding them captive. Acting flaws are pretty obvious in Victoria Profeta's part, transforming from one day to other from a silly housewife into a rabid, insult-obsessed girl with a liking to assault robbery for absolutely no reason.This movie is absurd. Comedical without wanting it. Terribly simplistic and irrelevant. Spend your time with something funnier like, don't know, eating plastic or stomping your head to a wall.