Contraband

    Contraband
    2012

    Synopsis

    When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago—smuggling—to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farraday finds himself wanted by cops, crooks and killers alike.

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    Cast

    • Mark WahlbergChris Farraday
    • Kate BeckinsaleKate Farraday
    • Ben FosterSebastian Abney
    • Giovanni RibisiTim Briggs
    • Lukas HaasDanny Raymer
    • Caleb Landry JonesAndy
    • Diego LunaGonzalo
    • J.K. SimmonsCaptain Camp
    • David O'HaraJim Church
    • William LuckingBud Farraday

    Recommendations

    • 75

      Entertainment Weekly

      Contraband, while often grungy and far-fetched, does keep you watching. And in January, that's recommendation enough.
    • 67

      Austin Chronicle

      Contraband is a tidy little thriller that makes up in execution what it lacks in originality.
    • 63

      Boston Globe

      I don't know that a lot of Contraband makes sense. But I'm not sure that it has to. The director Baltasar Kormákur carries the movie off with efficiency, brutality, and humor.
    • 60

      Village Voice

      No one, however, could mistake Contraband for anything but what it is: a shift-job genre movie - not a bad day's work, content to match the blocky trudge of its star rather than attempt panache.
    • 60

      The Hollywood Reporter

      The lead role of a working class former smuggler who dirties his hands again to save his family fits Mark Wahlberg like a glove.
    • 60

      Variety

      This solid if disposable genre exercise maintains a hard-driving line of action and a commitment to one-damned-thing-after-another storytelling that carries it past any number of narrative speedbumps and preposterous detours.
    • 60

      Arizona Republic

      Ribisi has become the go-to guy for movie psychos, giving everything to performances like this one or as Moburg, the dissolute reporter in "The Rum Diary."
    • 60

      Boxoffice Magazine

      This Americanized version of the 2008 Nordic thriller "Reykjavik Rotterdam" transfers the original's gritty, violent action into an entertaining and intense starring role for Mark Wahlberg.

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