While Wahlberg’s stuff will typically never be competing for best picture at the Academy Awards, he tends to turn in some pretty good action. Here in Contraband, that continues.
Contraband starts off with our reformed smuggler Chris Farraday (Wahlberg) working a good honest job doing home security system installations while dealing with being married to Kate Farraday (played by the exquisite Kate Beckinsale…ah Kate…lovely lovely Kate…you still haven’t answered my calls…your penmanship on the restraining order is beautiful…) Ahem. Sorry, lost my train of thought there. Oh, right, and he’s a family man and they have a couple of young kids and they live in New Orleans. (call me Kate!) All is well until Andy, Kate’s idiot brother, botches a smuggling job to the tune of a pretty sizeable chunk of change owed to our bad guy, a Mr. Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi). Though reluctant to do so, yet seeing no other options, Chris steps in to do one last big smuggle in order to save the delicious Kate’s idiot relation. That sets up the movie and the tension and the action, and there are some decent twists along the way for a fairly enjoyable movie.
I enjoyed it for the action/thriller that it was, and my only complaint was not enough screen time for Ms. Beckinsale.
Now for something completely unrelated, some clips of Wahlberg here and here.
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