Though it never quite has us by the lapels, the film is a solid, workmanlike action flick. Hotels near Abandoned Contrabando Movie Set: (0.84 mi) Rancho Topanga Campgrounds (7.72 mi) Big Bend Casitas at Far Flung Outdoor Center (8.27 mi) Paisano Village RV Park & Inn (7.33 mi) Lajitas Golf Resort (3. CONTRABAND With Mark Walberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster. Simmons and Diego Luna ( Y tu mama tambien) show up in effective cameos.Ĭontraband also has a good, churning rhythm-and-blues soundtrack, withĬrawling King Snake John Lee Hooker's hoodoo voice creeping out of theatre speakers. In typically boneheaded thriller-movie logic, Chris replies, Theres nothing else to do. Mark's older brother, Robert Wahlberg, is properly haunting as a morose Irish Terminator. Ribisi connects as the sadistic drug kingpin, dawdling on his line readings with an elastic Southern drawl, as if he researched his role watching Strother Martin bully prison gang crews inĬool Hand Luke. The rest of the cast delivers broad, flavourful performances. Playing a blonde with her roots showing, Beckinsale seems up for a scrap, but the film gives her nothing to do but get clobbered. While Chris is committing piracy on the high seas, she's left at home, being guarded by a twitchy pal of Chris's named – uh-oh! – Sebastian (Ben Foster). Reykjavik-Rotterdam) could have figured out what to do with co-star Beckinsale. The film also has a good running gag about a stolen Jackson Pollock painting that is mistaken, at one point, for a splattered tarp.Ĭontraband would be even more fun if filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur (star of He orders Schlitz, the beer that made Milwaukee famous. No vodka and cranberry for Chris, however. Parents need to know that Contraband is an intense action thriller about a former smuggler (played by Mark Wahlberg) whos forced to go back into business. Early on, Chris and Kate attend a wedding. Sure enough, Chris is soon confronting the combined forces of Panama, New Orleans and Murphy's Law – the rule that states that anything that can possibly go wrong with a last heist generally does.Ĭontraband is careful to work Wahlberg's regular-guy charm.
He's off to Central America, running counterfeit money out of Panama.īut then our hero makes his mistake, advising wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), "Nothing is going to go wrong, I promise." This is it – the last job. Chris's crime comeback appears to be going well, too.
Listen to trailer music, OST, original score, and the full list of popular songs in the film. Mission: Impossible, it's fun seeing a relaxed, confident action star go about his business. Find all 22 songs in Contraband Soundtrack, with scene descriptions. And after watching Tom Cruise make heroism look like torture in the latest Wahlberg's character clearly enjoys getting back in the game. "Have you ever been convicted of espionage, sedition or treason?" a bored law official asks him early on his final misadventure. He's also one cocky little Irish rooster, with a crew as tight as his T-shirts. A relatively fast-paced, tense and gritty B-grade movie, Contraband follows a familiar heist formula to produce a solid dose of escapist entertainment.