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Contraband’s Sea Heist

Mark Wahlberg’s action thriller Contraband arrived this week on home video in a Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy + Ultraviolet combo pack. If you’ve been holding your breath waiting for a commercial shipping heist movie, then you’ve got a real winner here.

Wahlberg plays a retired smuggler who gets dragged back into the game to pay off a debt owed by his wife’s idiot brother. There’s a lot of fighting and bloodshed and double-crossing but you can probably guess what happens in the end. Since Contraband neither promises nor attempts to create any new twists on the genre, it’s worthwhile to list a few distinguishing characteristics. +Continue Reading