Snabba Cash II 2012

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Najafi stages action scenes with an intense, queasy beauty and elevates what is in its outlines a routine crime drama to near-operatic proportions ... Read more

A.A. Dowd, AV Club: There's something depressingly schematic about the way director Babak Najafi, replacing prior helmsman Daniel Espinosa, crosscuts among the mad scrambles of his down-on-their-luck protagonists. Read more

Tom Russo, Boston Globe: A deep pool of underworld characters and a focus on multicultural tensions in Stockholm lend crime drama some added interest in "Easy Money: Hard to Kill" ... Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Thin, intense and yet somehow cool, Kinnaman is on his way to stardom, and it's easy to see how these movies gave him lift off. This is a tough, crackling crime story, well-executed and tense throughout. Read more

Inkoo Kang, Los Angeles Times: Though "Hard to Kill" forges new ground on the rich character histories developed in the first film, they feel like a random trio assigned the same punishment whose lives eventually intersect - and as such, the emotional moments never land. Read more

Jordan Hoffman, New York Daily News: How many times do these guys need to hear that crime doesn't pay? Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Because JW isn't the strutting, duplicitous peacock he was in the first movie, the role isn't as rewarding this time out. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: [It] revels in a density of illegal dealings engineered by unusually sympathetic hoods. But something got lost in the expansion. Read more

Zachary Wigon, Village Voice: Structurally ambitious but otherwise familiar, Easy Money: Hard to Kill frustrates as only untapped potential can. Read more