Cash (2010/aka Ca$h/Lionsgate DVD)

 

Picture: C+     Sound: B-     Extras: C-     Feature: C

 

 

Stephen Milburn Anderson’s Ca$h (2010) is another would-be slick thriller that never manages to work on any level and makes just about every mistake and misses just about every opportunity it could, thanks in part to the highly formulaic Anderson script.  Sean Bean (Ronin, GoldenEye) plays twins (one in prison, one not) and the free one loses a suitcase of stolen money found by a couple (Chris Hemsworth, the actor playing Marvel Comics’ Thor and Victoria Profeta), but it is not long before he catches up with them and terrorizes them.

 

This includes terrorizing them and threatening them to break federal laws and many other things, but I was never totally convinced of any of this and this becomes an excuse to be slick, silly and it all loses credibility early on.  Tim Kazurinsky (Saturday Night Live) even shows up, but this is a mess that is all over the place and what few interesting things that happen here, we have still seen many times before and done much better.  Hemsworth was coming off of the Australian hit series Home & Away, as well as a role in the 2009 Star Trek revival and has some star appeal.  Unfortunately, this will go down as a bad curio with two name stars.

 

The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image is soft with motion blur and shaky camera work that all works against the production, while the Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is nothing special, but has somewhat of a soundfield.  The music choices are laughable and awful.  Extras include a making of featurette, Anderson feature length audio commentary and Deleted & Extended Scenes that could have not saved this.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo