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When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago – smuggling – to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farraday finds himself wanted by cops, crooks and killers alike.
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75
Contraband, while often grungy and far-fetched, does keep you watching. And in January, that's recommendation enough.
67
Contraband is a tidy little thriller that makes up in execution what it lacks in originality.
63
I don't know that a lot of Contraband makes sense. But I'm not sure that it has to. The director Baltasar Kormákur carries the movie off with efficiency, brutality, and humor.
60
Village Voice
No one, however, could mistake Contraband for anything but what it is: a shift-job genre movie - not a bad day's work, content to match the blocky trudge of its star rather than attempt panache.
60
The lead role of a working class former smuggler who dirties his hands again to save his family fits Mark Wahlberg like a glove.
