Reviews of Contraband 2012
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Beckinsale's performance is the only thing worth watching in a movie that tries to be adventurous, but is plain boring.
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I wanted to like this but pretty soon I noticed how dull it was and lost my interest. Meh.
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Solid enough but cliched beyond enjoyment.
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Predictable action movie with Mark Wahlberg who is smuggling aboard a freight ship to get his young brother in law, who blew up a smuggling deal, out of the hands of a gang. Everything you'd expect on forehand is in this movie, no surprises or twists.
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What surprised me rewatching this is how incredibly grim and self-serious this film is. It shouldn't be that surprising, really, since Baltasar's movies have all been pretty humorless affairs, but the original is so funny and charming that this in comparison feels like a slog. Also it's a shockingly ugly film, I'm beginning to suspect that Baltasar doesn't have much of a visual sense.
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Director Baltasar Kormakur brings you a Hollywood facelift of Reykjavik-Rotterdam, a gritty Icelandic thriller in which he played the lead role. It’s that film you’ve likely seen advertised on many a double-decker bus, it’s Contraband. Chris (Wahlberg) is an ex-smuggler who’s now chosen a righteous path running his own home-security company to provide for his wife Kate (Beckinsale) and two children. All is swell in Chris‘ life until his liability of a brother-in-law Andy (Caleb Landry Jones) botches up a…
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Contraband is a decent enough, watchable thriller that occasionally threatens something better but never quite pulls it off. The one-last-job to get a brother-in-law out of trouble set up, is got out of the way fairly swiftly and the film quickly gets on with the business of being a nuts and bolts thriller with a couple of good action set pieces. The milieu of smuggling feels quite fresh. It something I haven’t seen much of before, presumably because it’s mostly…
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Clunky.
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Good tight thriller with the added spice of a pretty minute description of how smuggling through freight ships is done. A couple of twists that i did see coming and a couple that really took me by surprise. Darker and smarter than a thriller of this caliber. Fel lite Oceans Eleven but with more grit and less class. Wahlberg, Foster and Ribisi is okay but not great, feels like they all have played these roles better before, Simmons as per ususal sublime. The problem is that Beckinsale is boring. I didn't even flinch emotionally in her key scene, although i was surprised that it happened.
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Ist halt so nen typischer Gangsterthriller, wo jemand den letzten Job macht und alles geht schief. Allerdings ist der Film toll besetzt, finde ja Mark Wahlberg und Ben Foster passen genau in solche Rollen rein.
Story ist dabei nicht weltbewegend, bietet aber nen paar nette Überraschungen und weiß gut zu unterhalten. Aber richtig toll fand ich die eine Actionszene in der Filmmitte, erinnerte mich ziemlich an eine bekannte Szene aus Kane & Lynch. Und ja wenn der K&L Film je kommen sollte, so in etwa dürfte die Action dann gerne aussehen.
Ganz nette kurzweilige Unterhaltung für zwischendurch und optisch macht das Ganze dann auch noch was her.
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Fairly predictable stuff.
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Incredibly predictable from start to finish, but not a bad popcorn flick when nothing else is on.