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
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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.