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Plot Summary
Slick, expensively produced caper is set inside swank Parisian penthouses and Riviera seaside resorts as it follows the title character played by Jean Dujardin (star of the OSS 177 comedy franchise) as he launches an acquisitive, diabolical crime spree motivated by the death of his brother during a botched investment scam. Ca$h assembles a formidable team: Jean Reno is Maxime, a criminal mastermind whose hot accomplice Garance (Alice Taglioni) becomes the object of Ca$h's affection. Things become complicated when an undercover cop (Valeria Golino) infiltrates the team. Writer-director Eric Besnard stages loads of high-wire action including plenty of double-crosses and mistaken identities in a film whose grammar is inflected with Soderbergh-ian freeze frames, split screens, slo-motion and surveillance footage, not to mention helicopter shots and chase scenes. From IFC Films.
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Customer Reviews
Great Exotic Con Adventure
If you are anti foreign setting, you will not like this movie. If you're open to the world outside your borders and enjoy a good con movie, this is a good one for you. Sure, the plausibility of the story may be a bit far-fetched, but what con story isn't? It's exotic, refreshing and yes, somewhat original. It takes place in Paris and in Monaco/French Riviera, the acting is good, and Jean Dujardin really looks like he's having fun. I really liked this movie for what it is, very good entertainment. Nobody in it will be up for an Oscar, even though Dujardin earned one.
Cash well spent
A truly fun movie, the kind Hollywood wishes it could make. It's everything the overblown, overacted and overrated actors and director of Ocean's Elven tried to do and couldn't.
A con movie overdone
First, the language is mostly French with some English mixed in as some of the police officers speak English. There are subtitles but I felt those were at times hard to read against the background.
As for the story, the movie continually invalidates what was seen in previous scenes and goes on with the next plot twist. After a while, this seems a bit cheap and as a consequence you learn not to care to much. The concept of a con movie seems overdone in this case. The movie does not go to great lengths to make it all believable but rather leaves this up to the viewer. Also, the ending felt a bit strange for the viewer and somewhat unsatisfying.
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- $7.99
- Genre: Comedy
- Released: 2008
- © Pulsar Productions, TF1 International, TF1 Films Productions 2008