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The investigation of the crash starts and ends with one customs official waving her arms about. Earlier, Captain Camp's massive cargo ship slams into the docks, with several containers toppling to shore, all as part of an engine sabotage plot to gain Chris some on-shore time. A bloody hold-up of an armoured truck in Panama City leaves multiple fatalities strewn across the road but seemingly no ill-effects or consequences for Chris and his buddies. Ellis John Longden Passport Officer Eric Maturin Passport Officer Paddy Browne Singer Henry. Ashton Raymond Lovell Van Dyne Esmond Knight Mr.Pidgeon Charles Victor Hendrick Phoebe Kershaw Miss Lang Harold Warrender Lt. The action scenes are shoehorned into the film for the sake of injecting gratuitous energy boosts. Andersen Valerie Hobson Mrs.Sorensen Hay Petrie Axel Skold/Erik Skold Joss Ambler Lt. New Trailer and Images for CONTRABAND Starring Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster, and Giovanni Ribisi By Matt Goldberg Published Contraband trailer. The tried and tested "one more job" cliche is fine if deployed correctly, but here the job becomes a convoluted make-it-up-on-the-fly mess of shifting objectives and multiple double-crosses among a bunch of crooks, none of them likeable enough to matter. Nothing goes according to plan, as Captain Camp becomes suspicious and Briggs sets his sights on terrorizing Kate.ĭirected by Baltasar Kormákur and an adaptation of an Icelandic film, Contraband is overstuffed with secondary characters, jumps around to numerous side-quests, and stretches credibility well past the snapping point. Once there, they tangle with the heavily armed gang of local criminal Gonzalo (Diego Luna), who is planning his own heist of expensive artwork. Simmons) and arrange to pick up high quality counterfeit bills during a stop in Panama City. Chris and his friend Danny (Lukas Haas) go back into business for one final run to make enough money to pay off Briggs, leaving Kate and the kids in the care of Chris' good friend and former partner-in-crime Sebastian (Ben Foster).Ĭhris, Danny and Andy board the cargo ship of Captain Redmond Camp (J.K. Kate's younger brother Andy (Caleb Landry Jones) is caught up in a customs raid and has to ditch a cargo of drugs overboard, infuriating gangster Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), who paid $700,000 for the shipment. In New Orleans, Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) is a retired smuggler, now happily married to Kate (Kate Beckinsale) and the father of two kids. Simmons Robert Wahlberg Jason Mitchell Paul.


Things quickly fall apart a nd with only hours to reach the cash, Chris must use his rusty skills to successfully navigate a treacherous criminal network of brutal drug lords, cops and hit men before his wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), and sons become their target.Ĭontraband is distri buted and released by United International Pictures.An complicated crime thriller, Contraband is murky, muddled and mindless. Kate Beckinsale Kate Mark Wahlberg Chris Farraday Ben Foster Sebastian Giovanni Ribisi Tim Briggs Lukas Haas Caleb Landry Jones Andy Diego Luna J.K. Chris is a legendary smuggler and quickly assembles a crew with the help of his best friend, S e bastian (Ben Foster), to head to Panama and return with millions in counterfeit bills. See all Mark Wahlberg leads the cast of Contraband, a fast-paced thriller.
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Set in New Orleans, the film explores the cutthroat underground world of international smuggling - full of desperate criminals and corrupt officials, high-stakes and big payoffs - where loya l ty rar e ly exists and death is one wron g turn away.Ĭhris Farraday (Wahlberg) long ago abandoned his life of crime, but after his brother-in-law, Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), Chris is forced back into doing what he does best - running contraband - to settle Andy’s debt. Mark Wahlberg leads the cast of Contraband, a fast-paced thriller about a man trying to stay out of a world he worked so hard to leave behind and the family he'll do anything to protect. MANILA, Philippines - Mark Wahlberg leads the cast of Contraband, a white-knuckle action-thriller about a man trying to stay out of a world he worked hard to leave behind and the family he’ ll do anything to protect.
