Contraband (2012 film)

Contraband ( German Television Title Contraband - Dangerous cargo ) is an American thriller directed by Baltasar Kormákur. The film is a remake from the Icelandic film Reykjavik -Rotterdam.

Action

Chris Farraday is a shrewd ex- smuggler in New Orleans with his wife Kate has been installed alarm systems and two small sons. Kate's brother Andy ends up injured in the hospital; so they learn that Andy had smuggled on a cargo ship drugs and in a raid by the U.S. Customs, the goods had to throw overboard. Andy's principal Tim Briggs then asked him damages. In addition, he threatened Chris and his family.

To save his brother from this position, Chris leaves again be peaceful family life and takes on a smuggling tour. He asks his best friend, Sebastian Abney the contractor, while taking care of his family.

Under dramatic entanglements succeeds Chris to smuggle the goods to the customs control passing from Panama into the United States. He pushes among his enemies, the band at Briggs and the hated Captain drugs and achieved it, that they are arrested by the police.

Sebastian has since afflicted in a drunken state and Kate and they supposedly killed in a scuffle. While Sebastian tried to have her body in concrete at his construction site, Chris arrives and can save his wife at the last second. Sebastian is sentenced to prison and is treated in prison as an outcast. Chris can make the smuggled counterfeit money and a stolen painting by Jackson Pollock money and acquires several million. The final scene shows him with his convalescent wife in a luxurious house on the beach.

Reviews

" Contraband is a contradiction in terms - although entirely predictable, the thriller remake, thanks to its strong performer and his swift narrative style exciting until the last minute. " (Christoph Petersen, Filmstarts.de )

( Rebecca Struck, Star ) "Despite some original twists and gags voltage by the ever-increasing pressure of time for Chris and tidy pace comes " Contraband " does not have the conventional" hero saves all and lives happily until the end of his " addition principle. "

Trivia

The ship is the BBC Romania, the German Briese Schiffahrts GmbH & Co. KG is one of Leer.

The painting, which is stolen by Gonzalo gang, Jackson Pollock's No. is. 5, 1948 In November 2006, the image of its former owner was sold for $ 140 million -. , The highest price that was paid up to that point for a painting.

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