What would you hide to protect your family?
| Cast |
Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Caleb Landry Jones, Giovanni Ribisi, Ben Foster, Lukas Haas, Diego Luna, J. K. Simmons |
| Director |
Baltasar Kormákur |
| Screenplay | Aaron Guzikowski, from the Icelandic film by Arnaldur Indriðason, Óskar Jónasson |
| Music | Clinton Shorter |
| Cinematography | Barry Ackroyd |
| Editing | Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2012 |
| Produced by | Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Working Title Films, Blueeyes Productions, Leverage Management, Closest to the Hole Productions, Farraday Films, Leverage Entertainment, Studio Canal |
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Alcohol / Drugs |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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| Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
| Music (Scary/Tense) |
Music (Inappropriate) |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Box Office Pete Hammon  Although the film won't win any points for originality Kormakur invests it with style and momentum. A touch of subtlety wouldn't hurt, but the audience the generically titled Contraband is aiming for won't mind a bit. | 10 |  |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert | 10 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli Contraband is the kind of thriller that offers just enough in the way of effective elements to assemble a two-minute trailer. When it comes to a 110-minute feature, however, the sketchiness of the plotting and the director's lack of sure-handedness sink the project. | 10 | |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers Wahlberg could sleepwalk through this role, and does. See this movie and you'll surely follow his lead. | 10 | |
| Metacritic.com 36 critics | 10 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 141 critics | 11 |  |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer It's more entertaining than your average January action thriller, but that isn't enough to excuse Contraband's lack of originality and unnecessarily convoluted plot. | 10 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 11 | |
| Movie Review Intelligence 46 critics | 11 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 7179 Netizens One of Mark's Best | 13 | |
Average .. 53% | 11 | |