2012 · thriller · action · drama
Contraband
Directed by Baltasar Kormákur1h 49m2012
When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago—smuggling—to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farraday finds himself wanted by cops, crooks and killers alike.
Our read: Contraband (2012) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded thriller · action · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / action, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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