Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Contraband (2012)
Mark
Wahlberg headlines “Contraband,” a gritty tale of a smuggler turned legit family
man and business owner. The movie opens on a cargo ship as two guys dump a
10-pound bag of coke in the drink during a police raid. Big mistake. The drug bosses
(headed by Giovanni Ribisi, looking gaunt and wicked) want $700,000, or else.
So back Wahlberg goes to the smuggling biz as one of the dopes –- the other now
dead -– is his brother-in-law, and blood is blood. Kate
Beckinsale is the wife, Ben Foster the best pal. Director Baltasar
Kormákur keeps tense twists and shockers coming, and his climax goes against
the grain of every standard revenge flick. It’s smart. Bloody. Violent.
And funny as hell as during his complicated, miserable trip to Panama City,
Wahlberg’s back-in-the-saddle smuggler comes across a Jackson Pollack, a
massive fortune which everyone else mistakes for a drop cloth. Wahlberg is the
stalwart hero, but it's both Ribisi and Foster who give the film its hot,
dark pulse, the former carrying on business as his daughter watches. B+
Labels:
2012,
action,
Ben Foster,
Contraband,
drama,
drugs,
family,
Giovanni Ribisi,
Kate Beckinsale,
Mark Wahlberg,
Panama City
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