Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Jim Contains a partial spoiler at the end with a warning line as a comment about another review...I found this a delightful, fun and entertaining French movie about a masterful and highly convoluted confidence crime (or crimes). Thanks TF1 et al for a fun and entertaining movie! I'm recommending this one to friends for light entertainment. I feel it is well cast, has some fine contemporary actors/actresses and I believe they play their characters well. I feel an easy-going style, fun, light-hearted portrayal to the characters that plays well in the overall style of story. This is, after all, light-hearted pure entertainment. I can imagine the characters fun to portray and this film fun to make. The scenery and setting are bright and up-scale. Nothing is dreary or drab, adding to the overall light-hearted and delightful feel. I feel the reveals are well paced and will not give away too much or too little (at least for me) right up to the end. The pace seems right to me. It felt quick but not rushed. It kept moving and left me little time to ponder deeply, something I feel appropriate for this type of movie. There is virtually no action in this movie, it is all comedic drama with what I feel is well-paced tension and relief. Some dialog is in English, some in French. I've not been able to figure that one out, since all the characters speaking English are supposedly French. The English dialog has some Anglicisms recognizable to me (e.g. a "fiver") but may not be to some in the US and the English accents British or Canadian. The English (I'm not a francophone) subtitles for the French dialog seem very natural with the characters and what little French I know although I can't speak for the total accuracy of the translation. This is one of the easiest subtitled movies to watch I've seen, and I tend to browse the foreign film sections of video stores and rentals more than any other section. I think all but the most naive viewers will start realizing what is really happening very close to the end, but not too soon to spoil the ending. I think the writers, director and cast have all made viewers' reveal timing nicely elastic and not brittle.Partial Spoiler Alert.... One reviewer felt that no group would do anything this elaborate just to leave _____ out in the Mediterranean in a boat out of gas and found that too far outside the realm of suspended disbelief for comfort. I believe that review completely misses the strongly implied impending mortal revenge about to take place off camera and just past the movie's time line. But, I may be willing to suspend disbelief for this form of entertainment a little more than that reviewer. As with all movies of this type, the intricacy of the scheme hatched is far beyond what anyone would sensibly rely on in real life. End Partial Spoiler...

jotix100 As the story begins, we watch a truck stopping in front of an office building. The man that descends from the vehicle is an exterminator, supposedly, but of course, he is someone impersonating a bug man. He gets rid of some secretaries and begins to arrange the place, changing into a business suit. He is Solal, a well connected member of a mafia family operating in France. He had set an appointment with Lardier, a man that knows his identity and knows he was set up. Solal is murdered on the spot.Solal's family swears to avenge his death. His brother, nicknamed Cash, enters the story at this point. He and his family have devised a plan for getting the murderer and for a caper that involves the stealing of valuable diamonds that a rich man will be bringing to a resort hotel in the Riviera.There is an ambitious police investigator, Julia Molina, who is into Cash's activities. She wants to infiltrate the operation because she has a plan in mind that might be flawless. For that, she must become irresistible to another group that is being put together to help with the caper. She is in for a big surprise! "Ca$h" is a French thriller by Eric Besnard, who also wrote the script for the film. One thing for sure, Mr. Besnard has a keen eye in which to set the action. The director takes us on a tour of the world that only a few privileged people get to know and play. Mr. Bernard has written a lot for the movies. Giles Henry, the cinematographer, clearly understood what the man in charge wanted, giving the film what it needed to go along with the action.Jean Dujardin plays Cash with playful style. Valeria Golino, a good Italian actress usually seen in American films, is on hand to play Julia Molina. Jean Reno, an actor that has done a lot of action films, doesn't have much to do in here. Alice Taglioni, Francois Berland, Cieran Hands, and the rest of the supporting cast make a good contribution to the picture.

Mihnea the Pitbull The comparison is fateful - for better (as "unavoidable") and worse (as "suicidal"). The main fault lays in the characters (none has the perverse charm of Gondorff and Hooker) and in those parts of the script that depict the heists (not by far as ingenious as in the best movies of the genre, but neither as hair-pulled and flat as in the "Ocean..." series). Fortunately, the direction is fast-paced and stylish, so this saves the day more or less. And... okay, I won't spoil the ending, but one thing should be stated: it's totally unlikely. You do NOT pull such an elaborate farce, ONLY to send (...) screaming in a motor boat without fuel in the middle of the Mediterranean.Further, the perpetual use of the trick "I'm not who you thought me to be" is hugely abused of, reminding rather of "The Pirates of the Caribbean". What really stands is the sparkling direction and the old-fashioned style, nostalgically recalling the end of the Seventies. For such a merry flick, it's positively refreshing.

Vik Weimer Apart from the numerous stylistic resemblances between "Ca$h" and the Ocean's 11/12/13 movies (funky music, editing pace, use of colorful light, etc.), you have to realize that this is a very different movie. Of course, if all you have seen in this genre is Ocean's 11, and you're easily distracted by style, then of course you draw parallels, and you might prefer the Ocean's movies.This is, please let me emphasize this, this is NOT a heist movie! So don't expect a heist movie! This movie is more in the line of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", in that it's filled with con artists, scams, twists, and a sometimes very comedic approach to all that.Sure it could be better here and there, but it's a really nice feel good crime/(little bit of)heist/con movie, charming and entertaining, and I left the movie theater with a big grin.Not perfect, but enjoyable.