Contraband (2012)
What would you hide to protect your family?
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Contraband rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb6.4/10· 129K votes
Rotten Tomatoes50%
Metacritic51%
TMDb6.336/10· 2K votesWith 50% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.4/10 on IMDb and 51/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.
About Contraband
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.
Cast of Contraband
Mark Wahlberg
as Chris Farraday
Kate Beckinsale
as Kate Farraday
Ben Foster
as Sebastian Abney
Giovanni Ribisi
as Tim Briggs
Lukas Haas
as Danny Raymer
Caleb Landry Jones
as Andy
Diego Luna
as Gonzalo
J.K. Simmons
as Captain Camp
David O'Hara
as Jim Church
William Lucking
as Bud Farraday
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
as Olaf
Robert Wahlberg
as John Bryce
Contraband facts
- Budget
- $25M
- Box office
- $96.3M
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Intricate heist mechanics sustain tension across cargo ship sequences
- •Moral complexity emerges from impossible choice between family loyalty
- •Gritty procedural approach grounds crime drama in tactical reality
What the audience disliked
- •Character motivations shift inconsistently throughout narrative progression
- •Plot relies on convenient circumstances to resolve conflicts easily
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