Contraband movie1/8/2024 Anyways there is just nothing new or innovative about this movie and there isn't really anything that will really grab your attention and interest from beginning to the end. The movie starts off alright and the smuggling mission is done alright but nothing new but the movie just seemed absurd and stupid when it came to Chris Farraday's family constantly getting threatened while Chris is away on the smuggling mission. And he plays that similar character well in this. Ben Foster plays a friend of Chris Farraday and from his past movies he is pretty good at playing the sidekick/friend that is sorta complex and is unclear about his motives sometimes. Kate Beckinsale is alright in this playing Chris's wife but nothing much, and her name is Kate in this as well. For someone who gone a long way depending on his wits doesn't seem that bright in this movie sometimes. So Chris Farraday is this big shot top of the top when it comes to smuggling back in the day, but he just makes obvious mistakes in this movie. And gets in debt with Tim Briggs(Giovanni Ribisi) and so Chris has to get back into smuggling in order to pay off Andy's debt. So Chris Farraday(Mark Wahlberg) has a wife and kids and running a legal business until his wife's brother Andy tries to get into the smuggling business and screws it up. This is basically a smuggling movie with a bit of heist in it and it trying to go in a gritty direction when it comes to the smuggling business. Mark Wahlberg is back to his roots in something he is good in and probably wants to be in. On the whole it's a good action movie and if you liked Mark Wahlberg's previous movies like the Italian Job and Shooter, you will also like this. It's great to see Kate Beckinsdale in the movies again though she plays the wife whose main role is to look great and be in distress, a far cry from her iconic Underworld Selene or from her last movie Whiteout. This lends for some really angular storytelling that keeps the movie exciting and interesting. The movie feels at home at sea where everything is calculated and ordered, but while on land, the movie is always bizarre, violent and out of control. The movie is at its best after it sheds its GI6S intro and moves to the nitty gritty details of smuggling. We are then treated to the Mark Wahlberg show where it's hard to imagine anything adverse happening to him and we just go along with the ride. Chris our smuggler protagonist is deemed the Houdini of smuggling but in reality, he's a general super bad-ass who can talk fast, kick ass and smuggle at superhero levels. Leave your thinking cap outside, that's the contraband that will keep you from enjoying this as it was intended.Ĭontraband starts like "Gone in 60 Seconds", but instead of boosting cars it's about smuggling contraband, and like GI6S it's because of an idiot younger brothers and familial responsibilities that brings an ex-criminal/smuggler out of retirement for that one last job. Not a necessity to see on the big screen, but that helps it a little. If you have a craving that only chicken nuggets will satisfy, then I think you will come away fairly happy. There was one particular action sequence that takes place around the halfway mark that was done very well. While the movie wasn't action packed, it moved at a good pace and kept my interest the whole time. The locations (New Orleans & Panama) were interesting choices but never really quite fit. All the characters were two dimensional representations of stereotypes. The star power was strong, but given so very little to work with in the way of character back story. There were many déjà-vu moments of been there and done that. They start with "One last heist" and end with "If you want to save your family you'll do as you're told". It would be easy to pick on everything that this movie wasn't, but can you blame chicken nuggets for being chicken nuggets? With a rookie screenwriter at the helm, the script suffers from a mash-up of cliché's. Contraband is a paint by numbers action/thriller.
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