Savvier and less cartoonish than those posters of�Mark Wahlberg with stacks of cash taped to his famous torso might have you believe, Contraband�is a remake of the 2008 Icelandic smuggling thriller�Reykjav�k-Rotterdam, directed by the original's star,�Baltasar Korm�kur. The action's been transported to New Orleans-Panama City, the goods upgraded from bootlegged liquor to counterfeit cash, and the whole enterprise daubed with some Hollywood gloss, but it's still an obligingly tense, scruffy addition to the one-last-crime genre.
Even for the now-retired "Lennon and�McCartney of smuggling," as a character declares�Wahlberg's Chris Farraday and his friend and former partner�Sebastian Abney (Ben Foster), the gig is still about finding places to stash contraband while working on freighters, which no matter how it's spun is going to be far down the ladder of bad-boy glamour. And despite betrayals, domestic dramas and escalating plot twists that land Chris in the middle of a Panamanian firefight with only a few minutes to get back to the vessel on which he came,�Contraband doesn't short-change the analog ingenuity and group effort required to be a competent smuggler, making the film as much an interesting peek at shipping in the underbelly of the shipping world as one in which�Wahlberg shoves a gun up�Giovanni Ribisi's nose.
Chris is a second-generation smuggler whose father, Bud (William Lucking), is serving time for a job gone wrong. He's married to Kate (Kate Beckinsale), they have two sons, and he's gone straight by starting an apparently successful home security business while�Sebastian attends AA meetings and is overseeing a construction job. (Aside from a few music choices and an opening wedding scene,�Contraband goes light on local color -- probably for the better, given how very un-New Orleans the cast is.) Trouble re-enters the Farradays' lives by way of Kate's younger brother Andy (Caleb Landry Jones),…
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