Other than the one stand out and one wtf sequence, the rest of the movie plays out smoothly, efficiently, and as expected. The film veers off the rails for one weirdly out of place armored car heist, but that’s balanced out with a hilariously effective plan for Walhberg to punish all the bad guys in one quick cocaine-related move. A bad situation is kicked off in the opening scenes that spirals increasingly out of control over the course of the movie before ending on a note that punishes all of the bad guys and rewards all of the good guys. That sounds like faint praise and that’s all the movie really deserves. He shoots the action movie in the now clichéd handheld camera style and handles the set pieces efficiently. I haven’t seen the original film, so can’t make a comparison, but Kormakur does a decent, workman like job handling the material.
Ribisi’s performance would even be over-the-top as the bad guy in a Christmas pantomime and it’s a real shame that he ended up in the role.Ĭontraband is a remake of the Icelandic thriller Reykjavik-Rotterdam and was weirdly directed by the star of that version, Baltasar Kormakur. He simply doesn’t have the physical presence to be much of a threat and tries to compensate for that with an absurd growling voice and a near limitless supply neck tattoos. The only piece of miscasting is Giovanni Ribisi as the film’s villainous drug dealer. JK Simmons is his typically amusing n’ angry self as the screwed over ship captain, the immensely underrated Ben Foster as excellent as always as Wahlberg’s friend with a secret, Diego Luna is quite amusing as a ridiculous crime lord, Caleb Landry Jones is a great lovable loser as the brother-in-law, and Kate Beckinsale plays her loving wife/damsel in distress with as much dignity and grace as possible. He’s always better in supporting character actor roles than as action leads, but the money and fame is in this type of stuff and he doesn’t it as well as possible. Movie Contraband (Import) (UK IMPORT) DVD REGION 2 NEW. Since Marky Mark has become a bit of a power player in Hollywood as a producer/actor, the guy was able to dig into his rolodex and pluck out an impressive line up of actors for this flick and the ensemble cast is the highlight. Mark Wahlberg leads the cast of Contraband, a fast-paced thriller about a man trying to stay. Don’t worry though, this isn’t the type of movie where the bad guys have any chance of winning.
Of course, things don’t go as planned so a ridiculous Jackson Pollak painting heist and an extra drug deal go down on the trip as well, all while Ribisi is violently threatening Wahlberg’s family at home. Suddenly, Wahlberg is thrust back into his old smuggling gig and agrees to run some counterfeit bills from Panama City to get his bro-in-law out of debt. The movie’s requisite tattoo covered cartoon villain (ridiculously portrayed by Giovanni Ribisi, more on him later) doesn’t take to kindly to his drugs disappearing and gives him a week to pay off a $700,000 debt. Unfortunately, his idiot brother-in-law didn’t give up the family business and ditches a hefty stack of cocaine when his ship is boarded by customs. Wahlberg plays a former smuggling prodigy who has gone legit to raise a family.
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