Joel Kinnaman: Jorge Matias Padin Varela

J.W. Kinnaman Dept: Shot with a functional mixture of hand-held cameras and busy editing, Easy Money is a decently made film, complexly plotted and well-acted, with a panoramic sense of the European criminal underbelly dialogue is in a half-dozen languages . But what really distinguishes it from any number of drug-escapade stories is the unusual and welcome sense of Dostoyevskian moral gravity of the narrative, according to Globe and Mail. But the principal story focuses on J.W. Kinnaman , a preppie-looking type from the sticks who hides his poor family background while trying to fake his way through Stockholm s rich set and pursue a wealthy beauty Lisa Henni . Studying by day and driving a cab by night, he makes up lies to impress his business-school classmates. When a professor tells the class that one person s crisis is another s opportunity, he takes the economics lesson as a personal mission. Shortly after, when J.W. s Arab dispatcher and clandestine drug trafficker , Abdulkarim, gives him a fat bonus to collect Jorge, J.W. ends up saving the escaped con s life. That gets him on the inside track of Abdulkarim s drug-trafficking racket and based on the bestselling novel Snabba Cash , by criminal lawyer Jens Lapidus, it s a look at the social net of the criminal world in the tradition of Traffic British or U.S. versions rather than a conventional police procedural. On the basis of this Swedish box-office hit, director Daniel Espinosa was tapped to direct the Denzel Washington thriller Safe House . As well, The Hollywood Reporter has announced that an American remake, starring Zac Efron, is in the works, and the movie s star, Joel Kinnaman TV s The Killing , will headline the remake of Robocop . The film opens with one of the three principal characters, Latin American immigrant Jorge Matias Padin Varela , rappelling a prison wall and racing through the forest to an escape car. Jorge has a pregnant sister he wants to see, but he also has a connection to a German supply of cocaine. Meanwhile, a middle-aged Serbian drug thug and father of a adolescent daughter, Mrado Dragomire Mrsic , is trying to get to Jorge to beat some information out of him before killing him. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.