As Chris and a band of co-conspirators do their stuff at sea, Kate finds refuge with his friend and ex-partner, Sebastian (Ben Foster). Andy has dumped a bunch of coke during an aborted run for some baddies, and now it’s up to Chris to pay off the debt by buying funny money in Panama. Wahlberg don’t, but it hardly matters, because Chris has soon shipped off to Panama. Tim Briggs Avatar, Basic Caleb Landry Jones The Social Network, Finch Lukas Haas. Sebastian Abney Medieval, The Contractor Giovanni Ribisi. Kate Farraday The Gentlemen, Stonehearst Asylum Ben Foster. Chris Farraday Father Stu: Reborn, The Six Billion Dollar Man Kate Beckinsale. Kate and Chris don’t make sense as a couple, or rather Ms. Who stars in Contraband: Cast List Mark Wahlberg. Directed by Lucio Fulci ( The Beyond ), Contraband stars Fabio Testi ( The Big Racket ), Marcel Bozzuffi ( The French Connection), Ivana Monti ( Five Days in Milan ), and Saverio Marconi ( Padre Padrone ). There’s more, including Chris’s wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), a hairdresser whose bleach job and visible roots probably mean to suggest that this is one tough chick, even if she’s played by the brittle, patrician Ms. And so it is for Chris, who’s forced back into his old criminal ways to save his brother-in-law, Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), from a local gangster, Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi, greased and tattooed). Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), botches a drug deal for his. But you know how it is in the movies: Just when a guy thinks he’s out, they pull him back in. Wahlberg’s smuggler, Chris Farraday, has gone legitimate for the sake of his family and now works in security. He does soon enough, though, where he starts busily putting the numerous pieces into place. Kormakur initially shoots New Orleans, the camera tracing circles in the night sky, it looks as if he didn’t want to come down to earth. (It rarely does.) If anything, the film’s adherence to implausibility as a defining narrative principle - a reliably winning Mark Wahlberg plays a New Orleans super-smuggler on a fast boat to Panama who faces a wolf, an armored truck and a drip painting - is part of its low-key kick, as is the director Baltasar Kormakur’s fondness for industrial landscapes.įrom the way Mr. That’s too bad because the story doesn’t matter. The absurdity of the story in the largely thrill-free thriller “Contraband,” its hairpin twists and outrageous coincidences, may keep even hungry action fans away.
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