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Contraband Trailer: By-The-Numbers Action Starring Wahlberg And The Ben Foster Reach-Around

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (12)

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Contraband looks like a pretty formulaic, by-the-numbers action flick. It’s got all the basic cliches lined up beautifully — the bad guy who’s turned over a new leaf, the sweet wife, the menacing bad guy who threatens the newly good guy’s family, and a gang of misfits who put together a heist. It’s got ‘splosions-a-plenty, women in their underpants, and lots of guns.

There is, quite honestly, very little you haven’t seen before. Hell, Mark Wahlberg, who plays the good guy, has played this role a few times already — he can probably do it in his sleep. That said, there are a couple of x-factors. Icelandic actor/writer/producer Baltasar Kormákur directed it, and it’s got a hell of a supporting cast, including Ben Foster (who Hollywood should make happen, but it ain’t really happening for some reason), Giovanni Ribisi as the bad guy, J.K. Simmons, Lukas Haas, Diego Luna, and Kate Beckinsale as the dutiful wife who is, for once, not clad in a black vinyl catsuit. Beckinsale aside (because seriously, she’s not good. Not since her Last Days of Disco and Cold Comfort Farm days, anyway), that’s a damn fine cast. So who knows.

Watch the trailer.

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Comments

Ben Foster was possibly the best thing about 3:10 to Yuma, so this could be great. Looking forward to seeing what happens.

Posted by: rornyh at October 5, 2011 11:43 AM

I'll grudgingly admit that the trailer's got me hooked.

Posted by: Rob at October 5, 2011 11:47 AM

...Kate Beckinsale as the dutiful wife who is, for once, not clad in a black vinyl catsuit.

Are we trying to see this as a good thing?

Posted by: coryo at October 5, 2011 11:49 AM

Marky Mark and his biceps and the creepy guy from the very excellent 3:10 to Yum means I am in. I love cliches when they look like Marky Mark.

Posted by: klingonfree at October 5, 2011 11:50 AM

Ben Foster is a wonderful actor. I'm not fond of Wahlberg, even if he did say hello to my mother.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at October 5, 2011 1:08 PM

It's based on a very good Icelandic movie called Reykjavík/Rotterdam.

Looks like it's been beefed up a lot! Explosions, guns and stacks of money.

They were only smuggling vodka in the other movie.

Posted by: Ari at October 5, 2011 2:20 PM

Having recently watched The Mechanic, I'm back on the Ben Foster NEEDS to happen bandwagon. Not that I was ever "off" that wagon, but sometimes the attention fades a little bit...

Posted by: MM at October 5, 2011 2:31 PM

Hey, Foster's doing it right (if indeed it is deliberate). He's working steadily enough that we don't forget him, but doing really good and/or interesting "character" roles, as opposed to leading roles, so that the success/failure of a movie doesn't rest entirely on him. He's often one of the most interesting people in any movie, regardless of what the role is, and that's not a bad place to be. It also helps to actually be a good actor.

Posted by: Slash at October 5, 2011 4:36 PM

Gaaaahhhh! No one told me Ben Foster was in this! Now I have to watch a Mark Wahlberg movie.

Posted by: greer at October 5, 2011 7:06 PM

I suspect that Hollywood is aging Ben Foster like a fine wine, waiting until he hits his early late thirties and hits just the right level of pallid/rheumy/creepy. Then, they'll release him on the world to be the Brad Dourif of the next 50 years, and we'll be the better for it. I hope.

Posted by: Aratweth at October 5, 2011 10:00 PM

Hel-lo, Caleb Landry Jones!

Posted by: Shibuyama at October 6, 2011 9:33 AM

Its gonein60 all over again... even has ribisi in it. Is no one else catching this? Its bat shit crazy theyre doing this again.

Posted by: uh...what? at October 10, 2011 2:45 PM