Contraband

Story: Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) is quite clear about his future plans. He does not want to get back to what he initially did best -- drug smuggling. But little does he know destiny has otherwise in store....

Movie Review: Mark Wahlberg seems to have mastered the art of the no-nonsense-guns-and barrels guy. Perhaps, that is why, his Chris seems like a cakewalk -- nothing too much and nothing too less. Or so it seems, when it comes to his only calling in life -- family. So much so it eventually takes yet another family member to get him back into action. In this case, it’s his wife Kate’s (Kate Beckinsale) brother, Andy (Caleb Landry Jones) who has just messed up a cocaine delivery project.

What follows next is the very veteran ex-drugman in question getting into action... and saving many lives (including that of his wife and son) from the bad guy, Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi). But before that there’s a whole lot of the usual Wahlberg-isms -- a complicated network of the bad guys, drugs and drug peddlers, booze, corruption, New Orleans, Panama, hit men, blasts, firing, an intelligent plot to hide all that moolah, a plot gone wrong and the urge to do the job for the one last time. Take your pick.