3 Stars - okay...
Marky-Mark smuggles stuff... and the film takes no standpoint on it...
Contraband is about Mark Wahlberg going to smuggle across counterfeit money to pay off the money his brother in law owes to some gangsters.
The film is pretty dull, and the characters are all just sort of... okay. But I suppose it doesn't really do anything wrong per se.
However it fails to take any view on whether smuggling is a good or a bad thing, nor does it give much of an actual look into how people smuggle things in the real world... either of these could have made for a more interesting dynamic than the what would you do to protect your family? angle they tried for and failed to hit because they never made smuggling look like it was that difficult or morally wrong.
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| I hear you're doing a movie with Justin Beiber... sucks to be you Marky-Mark |
To sum up, Contraband is okay, but not really worth rushing out to see
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