: Contraband
This film didn’t interest me at all when it was in theaters, but it’s actually quite good. I knew it was about smuggling, where a former smuggler is forced to go back into his old life for one last deal, and that didn’t seem very interesting. But it turns out it’s much more of a clever heist movie.
I had no idea that smuggling meant putting stuff on legitimate cargo ships — I always thought guys used their own private boats. The logistics of getting stuff on and off a cargo ship without anyone noticing is fascinating and exciting, and the film moves from one dramatic sequence to the next. The concept of drug dealers putting pressure on the guy’s family to force him to do one last smuggling job was actually pretty good, as our hero wants to go legit but must protect his wife and kids.
The ending is interesting. At one point it seems anticlimactic but there are some lovely twists at the end and I loved the way everything worked out. Perhaps not the most intellectual fare and there’s some nastiness that isn’t totally necessary (I much preferred the light-hearted humorous aspects), but it’s all in good fun in the end.
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