Offers "smuggling" illegal to have fun, and not the substance, critics say

After the end of this year's wave image of prestige and prize stations to aspire, and the popcorn machine, the film is ramping up the back. Example: "smuggling" and was removed again heist movie starring Mark Wahlberg as a smuggler to repair back to the underworld to rescue his brother from a bully in the law. The film, a remake of a 2008 Icelandic film "Reykjavik, Rotterdam," received mixed reviews, mostly moderates.

Times film critic Betsy Sharkey believes that "contraband" to "very brave little oiled work [that] there is a work worthy to shake slow in January." Wahlberg succeeded in "making the neighborhood look killer and necessary," says Sharkey, and derives from the role of men in both men and ladies' man. Director Baltasar Kormakur Luxor Clinton and composer and cinematographer Barry Ackroyd performance of all bright, and only "Screenwriter Aaron Guzikowski, in his first feature film, and batteries in some new twists too many" All told, "" contraband "is the work of the stadium - addicts in January., and sometimes that is enough. "

New York Times Manohla 'Dargis see the movie in a silly plot "largely devoid of suspense," but at least provide a "low kick key" and "Mark Wahlberg gain confidence." Ackroyd and earn points Kormakur visual also its new vision of New Orleans, "and avoid the trees covered with Spanish moss ghostly and all the rest of the Great Plains," instead of "change between the level of the grunge and the city street on top, sweeping the strikingly lit at night, belching chimneys are afraid. "
The echoes of Joe Sharkey The Wall Street Journal Morgenstern, writing that "smuggling" is "entirely satisfactory entertainment, and this season of low expectations, a pleasant surprise." In the "adventure is normal and well developed," Wahlberg hits his co-star brand and continue to the end: Ben Foster is a curiosity and cooling of your best friend, Giovanni Ribisi, and his rival, Kate Beckinsale "strong and weaknesses so far, "as his wife. Morgenstern says he has a hand Kormakur that the sequence of work, but when you know that the refusal of chaos and add a little passion, a nice touch.

San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle says the movie is silly but fun, and the fact that "one of the things that make it fun is that it's ridiculous." The plot, LaSalle, he says, is incomprehensible to some extent - "it is impossible to track because the caper film does not tell us how to escape doing what he does" - but the story is kind of out of place. LaSalle warns, "you may notice that in the midst of laughter" contraband "You have to lean forward slightly in his seat and worry about the characters and laugh, even in the few places where you're supposed to."

But if a fair share of critics, is a measure of "contraband" as if entertaining is logical, while others, like "Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert and Andrew O'Hehir Hall, according to the last part only of this evaluation. Phiri Ebert, "I tired retreads of violent theft of these items" and O'Hehir called the film "huge clouds and chaos. "

Like it or not, there are a lot of action movies on the horizon, including spyware Steven Soderbergh film "stupid", and vampires, return - werewolves, compared with humans, dusting off the "awakening of vice "and Alaska, a set of photographs of Liam Neeson stay alive," gray "and Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds TeamUp" safe house "for example. Buckle your seat belt, the whole world.