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

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

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

How this confused and mediocre heist-cum-action movie reached - albeit briefly - the top spot in the US box-office ratings passes all understanding.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 16, 2012

It's a thriller in which the twists become so absurd that it becomes a kind of caper, but without the humour.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 15, 2012

[A] thick-cut, crusts-left-on smuggling thriller directed by the Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormkur.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 15, 2012

A cockamamie smuggling thriller remade from an Icelandic original by Balthasar Kormakuar.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 15, 2012

Needlessly convoluted subplots and crummy supporting characters suffocate the Farraday dynamic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 15, 2012

The result is unlikely to linger long in the memory, but it's enormous fun while it lasts...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2012

Contraband is a cut above cookie-cutter heist thrillers, and director Baltasar Kormkur looks ready for the big time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 11, 2012

A winter-season product, but perfectly absorbing once it gets going.

Full Review | Jan 24, 2012

If ever there were a typical January movie, it's Contraband, a film so dreary (and downright distasteful) that no studio would think of releasing it in December, when all eyes are focused on quality.

| Jan 13, 2012

Contraband squanders its tiny bit of goodwill with a hotdogging, "gritty" attitude that's never reflected in the actual story.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 13, 2012

It's a good, chugging caper movie for the most part.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 13, 2012

Wahlberg could sleepwalk through this role, and does. See this movie and you'll surely follow his lead.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 13, 2012

"Contraband" comes off the factory floor with its engine running and ready to drive. But the ride feels overly familiar.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 13, 2012

Everyone needs a little action now and then, right? Unfortunately, a little action is all you'll get.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 13, 2012

Though it never quite has us by the lapels, the film is a solid, workmanlike action flick.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 13, 2012

This very gritty bit of greased action does a decent job of shaking the sluggish out of January.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 13, 2012

"Contraband" is like an "Ocean's Eleven" movie, minus the glamour.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 13, 2012

"Contraband" aims to be dumb fun but gets only the first half right.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jan 13, 2012