Chris Hemsworth, best known as Marvel’s Thor or Tyler Rake, once played a significant role in a film that’s largely forgotten today – a dark tale of twins!
Chris Hemsworth’s career didn’t start with Thor in the Marvel universe, but few, even among his fans, remember “Ca$h,” a thriller that went straight to video in France in 2010. It also starred Sean Bean and Victoria Profeta.
The story revolves around Sam, who unexpectedly receives a suitcase thrown from a bridge onto his car. Intrigued, he takes it home and opens it, discovering a small fortune in cash. Burdened by debt, Sam uses the money to pay off his debts, persuades his girlfriend Leslie not to return the sum, and spends it recklessly. However, a gangster named Pyke Kubic is determined to recover the contents of the suitcase—in its entirety!
Let’s be clear upfront, if you’ve never seen this film, it’s not exactly a gap in your movie-watching experience that urgently needs filling. “Ca$h” follows a storyline that’s been rehashed since the concept of fiction began: the fateful suitcase. However, it does have one noteworthy aspect:
Sean Bean doesn’t just play one role; he plays two! Indeed, Pyke Kubic has a twin brother incarcerated in prison. Although this detail hardly impacts the story, except perhaps at the very end, it’s a tidbit worth noting.
Otherwise, the film can feel quite repetitive: Pyke wants his money down to the last cent, harasses the couple, scrambles to find a portion of the sum, a solution is concocted that pays back some of the money, and the cycle repeats. Chris Hemsworth holds his own, but he’s clearly the film’s main draw, which falls short of reaching the heights of genre classics like “Snatch,” “A Simple Plan,” or “Pulp Fiction.”
“Ca$h” is the third and final feature film by Stephen Milburn Anderson, following “South Central” (1992) and “Dead Men Can’t Dance” (1997), starring Michael Biehn, Kathleen York, and Adrian Paul. Don’t confuse this film with the French movie of the same name, “Ca$h,” directed by Eric Besnard and featuring Jean Dujardin, a tale of revenge and deception intertwined with alliances and misalliances, released in 2008.
As for Chris Hemsworth, he’ll soon return to the role of Thor but in a “different” way, as he recently announced. In the meantime, he has wrapped up filming for “Furiosa,” a “Mad Max” spin-off overseen by George Miller, and will lend his voice to Optimus Prime in “Transformers One,” an animated film based on the famous toy line.