Film Review - Contraband
January 12, 2012
“Contraband” is a film about idiots. This type of escapism has the potential to be devilishly amusing, but “Contraband” takes itself seriously, despite a wildly miscast ensemble and a script scribbled in Crayon. Instead of a campy good time, the effort goes all hard, trying to compete in the bruiser cinema sweepstakes with various staredowns, putdowns, and threats, captained by Charles Bronson Jr. himself, Mark Wahlberg. The silliness is unrelenting, only outpaced by the picture’s total absence of logic, making the feature a Jenga game of screen stupidity, where each brick of measured moviemaking removed threatens to bring the whole endeavor crashing to the ground. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com