Contraband, review - Telegraph A master smuggler gone straight (Mark Wahlberg) takes on one of those "one last job" jobs in order to save the skin of his weaselly brother-in-law (Caleb Landry Jones), in this thick-cut, crusts-left-on smuggling thriller directed by the Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur. The central family dynamic (Kate Beckinsale is terrific as Wahlberg's wife) recalls Ben Affleck's The Town, but with bonus machinery fetishism: much of the action takes place on a lovingly photographed cargo ship. Highlights include a neat final-act comeuppance for the powers that be (who are, naturally, corrupt as hell) and a decent running gag about a stolen Jackson Pollock.