Contraband

Movie: Contraband

Genre: thriller

Synopsis: Chris Farrady (Mark Wahlberg) was a renowned smuggler in his younger days.  Now he is a law-abiding citizen, married to Kate (Kate Beckinsale), raising two young boys and running his own security alarm installation company.  He is determined to go straight.  This resolve goes by the wayside when his idiot brother-in-law botches a smuggling job and the only way to save his life is for Chris to do “one last job”.

My two cents: A decent movie, but not up to what I expect from Mark Wahlberg.  Mark has done worse (“The Happening”) but has done so much better – although it is probably not fair to blame the whole movie on Mark.  There were some good chases and an interesting scenario to accomplish the smuggling.  The way he ultimately got the goods into the country was pretty innovative.  I also got a kick out of the ship’s captain – played by J.K.Simmons.  It really showed off his versatility as an actor,

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