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To protect his brother-in-law from a drug lord, a former smuggler heads to Panama to score millions of dollars in counterfeit bills.
In New Orleans, the former smuggler Chris Faraday has regenerated and raised a family of his own with his wife Kate and their two children. Chris works in installation of alarms and his father is locked in prison for smuggling. When his brother-in-law Andy dumps in the sea water 10 pounds of cocaine that he is smuggling for the drug lord Tim Briggs to escape from the custom officers, Chris is forced to pay Andy&#39;s debts to protect the youngster and his own family. Chris leaves his wife and children under the protection of his best friend Sebastian Abney and travels in a Container Carrier to Panama to bring counterfeit bills and raise the money to pay Briggs. But Briggs and his partner want to force Chris to smuggle drugs and will use his family to reach their objective. Meanwhile Chris is betrayed and gets in trouble in Panama.
Contraband starts out as another Gone In Sixty Seconds. Instead of boosting cars, it&#39;s about smuggling drugs and cash. John Bryce (Mark Wahlberg) has been out of the game for three years. He is forced back in when his wife&#39;s brother (Caleb Landry) mucks up a deal. To save his brother-in-law&#39;s life from a hardass drug lord (Giovanni Ribisi), Bryce forms a crew with the help of his longtime friend Sebastian (Ben Foster), and sets out to Panama to retrieve a shipment of contraband (hence the title). <br/><br/>The trailers present this movie as an action flick. While there is some action in Contraband, it is not the main focus. What makes this movie different than Gone In Sixty Seconds is how it explores the world of crime and drug smuggling. It is low-tech and very incognito. The idea of using a cargo ship as a means of transporting money and drugs is genius. You have to give the smugglers credit for being so clever, especially Bryce. He and his crew do not draw attention to themselves, nor do they face a final showdown between cops and thugs, which has become the stereotype in so many films about crime. I will not bother in going into details about how they pull off the scheme, for it is that good. <br/><br/>Even without all the action sequences, Contraband is a very intense film. Much of this is due to Giovanni Ribisi&#39;s performance as the drug lord. He is not afraid to force a gun into a person&#39;s face, and he likes to smash women&#39;s heads into mirrors. He is ruthless and rotten to the core. Mark Wahlberg is intense in this film too, but he is not as rough as Ribisi. He plays the typical fast-talking, badass that we&#39;ve seen in The Departed. In this however, he is at least one step ahead of everyone in the business of smuggling. Whenever things start to go to hell, he has a plan up his sleeve. Caleb Landry is in stark contrast to Wahlberg&#39;s character. Every chance he gets, he does something wrong or stupid. It comes to the point that he makes you wonder if he is messing up on purpose. Well, probably not, but a good smuggler would not take the &quot;funny money&quot; that is owed to the cartel and run for it while leaving his pals behind. Landry plays the part well as an inexperienced amateur. Ben Foster does not have much screen time in this film, but he presents himself as a likable ally to Bryce, but this changes quickly towards the second half of the film. There is more to him than a seemingly nice friend. <br/><br/>With decent performances and an interesting enough story, Contraband appears to be another good flick. However, it suffers because of terrible videography. This is unfortunate, especially since Barry Ackroyd, the man who did phenomenal work for The Hurt Locker and The Bourne Ultimatum, was the cinematographer. He is a master of the use of the hand-held camera and this is suitable for a film like Contraband. It is not the shakiness of the camera that is the problem; it is the lack of focus and poor compositions in the shots. One example comes to mind is the constant use of the quick zoom. Not only is the quick zoom a bit jarring on the eyes, but also it tends to result in a blurry shot. The cameraman seems to realize this, for the lens abruptly changes to make the shot in focus. Another instance is the tendency that character&#39;s heads and bodies are cut off from the frame. When Mark Wahlberg is talking, I want to see him in frame, not half in and half out. Yet again, the cameraman makes a swift change, trying to readjust the shot. This is not the work of a professional, but rather an amateur. Unless the filmmaker was on a tight budget, Barry Ackroyd should have redone the shots to make them more aesthetically pleasing to the viewer. Then again, this may have been what the director had in mind. For me though, the film suffers because of it. Contraband would receive a higher rating from me if the cinematography were improved.
CONTRABAND is a wretched script elevated by some decent Scandi direction. The plot sees Marky Mark as an ex-smuggler who - who&#39;d have guessed it? - gets pulled back in for one last job, after his brother in law loses a cargo that belonged to the wrong people. Soon he&#39;s got the old crew back together and they&#39;re off to Panama to pick up the goods, whilst his wife gets hassled by a thug from the same gang (which isn&#39;t entirely convincing as Kate Beckinsale looks like she could take Giovanni Ribisi in a fair fight anyday) and also by the ex-alcoholic friend he left behind to look after her. Smuggling is an interesting subject which is under-represented cinematically, although this film doesn&#39;t help because it&#39;s far more interested in heists and thuggery than in how the smuggling actually works. The aforementioned heist in Panama is the best part of the film, even if the plan makes no sense and leads to nearly everyone involved dying. The final outcome is never in doubt and the acting is pure formality but it rattles along, the location shooting is nice and the subject is just different enough to make this watchable.
Ribisi has become the go-to guy for movie psychos, giving everything to performances like this one or as Moburg, the dissolute reporter in "The Rum Diary."
When Giovanni Ribisi first auditioned for Contraband, it was for a different part. The director, Kormákur, suggested he read for Tim Briggs, the local thug who terrorizes the Farraday family. Kormákur says he was originally looking for the tough guy, but he felt that Ribisi brought something unexpected and more dangerous than a typical bully would.  a5c7b9f00b