Amounts to little more than Marky Mark’s South American Vacation.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 9, 2025

This flavorless action fodder goes from tiresome to mildly unpleasant.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 1, 2023

Everything about Contraband is fleeting. It's an exercise in formula that only manages to excite you a little bit more than it will surprise you, which is not at all.

| Mar 16, 2021

The excitement may be there at times, but skimped character development and a camera that just won't settle down only result in indifference.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 1, 2020

In a rarity among action films, even the supporting players are well cast here.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

The movie here moves between the not so decisive and the even less ingenious, confusing the director's personality with waving the camera with frenzy in the most inappropriate moments. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 15, 2020

This is a film where you have to have to take some things as they are. There are some twists and turns that you will see coming. Maybe a mile away but it's all still enjoyable.

| Original Score: B | Jan 11, 2020

Hang tight, action fans. Because once that assignment begins, so does a quite enjoyable mash-up of Tower Heist, Ocean's Eleven and The Italian Job.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 6, 2019

The movie isn't awful. There are twists and action and some clever extrications from sticky situations. I guess if I had to come up with a word to describe it, it would be generic.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 10, 2018

There are just one too many problems with Kormákur's overly-generic action thriller to separate it from the crowd.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2018

[Contraband] moves along nicely, assisted by the inclusion of real bad guys, nasty enough to provide a decent level of jeopardy and the easy, cheeky camaraderie between Wahlberg and his gang.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2017

We are left to ponder why Andy is any less culpable or any more worth saving than anyone else.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 30, 2012

It may not exactly be an original story, but when a little effort is put into a film like this, it can be done pretty well.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 17, 2012

Contraband is a decent action film but none of the cast can do anything to elevate the material beyond what it is: a January movie from top to bottom.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Sep 17, 2012

Plays like conventional Hollywood genre entertainment even though all the actual events in movie feel like they belong in a Michael Mann joint.

| Original Score: 3.5/10 | Aug 22, 2012

With its dim lighting and handheld camerawork, the director's 'realistic' visual approach is arguably bogus, but it pays dividends as the narrative becomes increasingly grim.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 11, 2012

Wahlberg delivers in this sometimes tense, enjoyable, but morally muddy heist thriller.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 17, 2012

Mark Wahlberg plays another working class action hero in this gritty but convoluted story about double-dealing smugglers, wharfside corruption and family revenge.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 2, 2012

A-Team rules apply: this is a gore-free zone that, in common with ye Lethal Weapon movies of yore, yokes family values to gunplay.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 19, 2012

Ends up just another dumber than average caper.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2012