What "Contraband" is, though, is a reasonably solid thriller, built on equal parts action and suspense, and punctuated by the occasional bit of deft rug-pulling. Things might get off to a bit of a slow start in director Baltasar Kormakur's film, an adaptation of his Icelandic thriller "Reykjavik-Rotterdam," but once the bad luck begins snowballing for Wahlberg's smuggler savant, it doesn't slow down for anything but the closing credits.
The only law that can seem to catch up with him is Murphy's Law. Like the production itself, which split its time between New Orleans and Panama, the film's action is set in those two locales. Don't expect postcard images of the city, though.
Wahlberg plays Chris Farraday, and he's on back-slapping terms with the kind of people whose daily travels take them to wharves and container yards, rat-trap apartments and abandoned, broken-window warehouses.
These are places that tend to generate long shadows and longer prison sentences. They're also the kinds of places that Kormakur's camera loves, as embracing as he is of the modern-day action-film aesthetic of deliberate imperfection. So we get the shaky camera, the trombone zooms, the purposefully sketchy focus.
Admittedly, all of that has become something of a cliche, but it still works well when a director wants to say "underworld" quickly. It also is the world that Wahlberg's Farraday wants to escape. But going straight is hard when you're as talented at subverting the law as he is. Neither does it help to have a boneheaded loser for a brother-in-law who gets in way over his head -- and deeply in debt -- with the wrong scumbag Giovanni Ribisi.
We are about leadership — the 9. And, grooming new leaders for this promising industry. Share on Facebook Tweet it. Contraband - Star Cast And Crew. B Ben Foster Actor. M Michael J. Taylor Actor. Mark Wahlberg Actor. D Diego Luna Actor. J John Russ Broussard Actor. G Giovanni Ribisi Actor. K Kate Beckinsale Actor. M Mike Broussard Jr.
L Lukas Haas Actor. A Andrew Autin Actor. W William Lucking Actor. A Arthur Thomas Actor. R Robert Wahlberg Actor. B Beau St. Pierre Actor. K Kent Jude Bernard Actor. Simmons Actor. A Ashton McGee Actor. C Caleb Landry Jones Actor.
T Telissa Long Actor. D David O'Hara Actor. N Norman E. Landeche IV Actor. J Jason Mitchell Actor. A Anthony Coleman Actor. P Paul LeBlanc Actor. A Allan Maxwell Actor. B Bryce McDaniel Actor. A Amber Gaiennie Actor.
J Juliette Marie Enright Actor. J Jackson Beals Actor. A Anthony 'Ace' Thomas Actor. S Shannon Maris Actor. J Jaqueline Fleming Actor. Contraband DVD English. Price: Not Available. Currently Unavailable. Mark Wahlberg leads the cast of Contraband, an action-thriller about a man trying to stay out of a world he worked hard to leave behind and the family he'll do anything to protect.
Set in New Orleans, the film explores the cutthroat underground world of international smuggling - full of desperate criminals and corrupt officials, high-stakes and big payoffs-where loyalty rarely exists and death is one wrong turn away.
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