~I received a copy of Easy Money: Life Deluxe on Blu-ray for review. Opinions and stories are my own.~
Easy Money: Life Deluxe is the third film in the Easy Money series directed by Jens Jonnson, based on the novel by Jens Lapidus, and one of the newest hits out of Sweden. The first film (Easy Money) introduces you to JW, an economics student whose desire for a lavish lifestyle fall far beyond driving a taxi and selling term papers. In Easy Money he makes his way pretending to be one of the lavishly rich and getting mixed into crime to pay for the lifestyle. Obviously things don’t go very well and in the second film, Hard to Kill, JW gets mixed in with the Mob instead of going to prison. The devastation of losing what life he feels he deserves turns into a seething rage. This brings us to Easy Money: Life Deluxe…
JW (Joel Kinnaman, The Killing) now lives in exile and is more determined than ever to find out what happened to his missing sister Camilla. Every trace leads him to the world of organized crime in Stockholm. Jorge is about to do his last score ? the largest robbery in Swedish history. But, during the complicated preparations he meets Nadja, a woman from his past. When an assassination attempt is made on the notorious mob boss Radovan Krajnic, his daughter Natalie is pulled into the power struggle within the Serbian mafia.