Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Giovanni Ribisi and Kate Beckinsale
Release Date: 19 January 2012
Genres: Action & Thriller
Memorable quote:
Chris Farraday: Takes money to make money
What?
Being a professional doesn’t mean something needs to be legal, that’s the case with Chris Farraday , he is or better said was a professional smuggler, he gave this up to build up a lovely family and a business. The problem with a bad past is that it will always haunts you in some way. When his brother in law f*cks up a deal, or couldn’t deliver the goods, Farraday needs to get back to the life he tried so desperately to leave behind. To protect his family at any cost, he gets his old crew together for one last hit. The beauty of smuggling is it brings together so many lovely but dangerous people. As you can expect things don’t always go smoothly as planned, this happens while not everybody is paid off even though they should be, everybody wants a piece of the pie!
Memorable quote:
Chris Farraday: Takes money to make money
What?
Being a professional doesn’t mean something needs to be legal, that’s the case with Chris Farraday , he is or better said was a professional smuggler, he gave this up to build up a lovely family and a business. The problem with a bad past is that it will always haunts you in some way. When his brother in law f*cks up a deal, or couldn’t deliver the goods, Farraday needs to get back to the life he tried so desperately to leave behind. To protect his family at any cost, he gets his old crew together for one last hit. The beauty of smuggling is it brings together so many lovely but dangerous people. As you can expect things don’t always go smoothly as planned, this happens while not everybody is paid off even though they should be, everybody wants a piece of the pie!
Yes?
This movie has a lot of good qualities an action thriller demands. First of a bad guy, you have the slick, clean and smart guy, or sometimes as in this movie you have the filthy disgusting, crazy hillbilly white trailer trash bad guy, which was really convincing and scary. Once you have kids in a scene and this guy around, the whole thing becomes scary.
This movie has a lot of good qualities an action thriller demands. First of a bad guy, you have the slick, clean and smart guy, or sometimes as in this movie you have the filthy disgusting, crazy hillbilly white trailer trash bad guy, which was really convincing and scary. Once you have kids in a scene and this guy around, the whole thing becomes scary.
The second thing we need is a good guy but he needs to be a bad ass with a reason to do some bad things, nothing is better than the “family card threatening” sometimes this is just the line the evil guy shouldn’t cross, well he did cross it. Mark Wahlberg can come off as the bad ass guy and whould you believe it, he was also convincing.
The movie had some great scenes, which all led to an acceptable ending, it was sometimes a bit too complicated but we will get there later.
No?
As always here we get the bad things. The movie was a bit too slow for my taste you have moments where nothing happens, and this is a game breaker for an action thriller.
The movie had some great scenes, which all led to an acceptable ending, it was sometimes a bit too complicated but we will get there later.
No?
As always here we get the bad things. The movie was a bit too slow for my taste you have moments where nothing happens, and this is a game breaker for an action thriller.
Action/Thriller movies need to be simple, the bad guy, the good guy, some action and some thrills that’s it, here we had so many different variables it just becomes difficult to determine
which genre we are talking about. I just things those things should be clear.
A problem we have nowadays is, the people whos job is to make trailers, are really good. They can make even the worst movies appear amazing, this happened here. We don’t have something besides a trailer to judge a movie, so this movie compared to the trailer, they just weren’t on the same level, I feel betrayed by the editors!
The movie didn’t bring us anything new, or amazing, the whole -back to the bad past because family needs you- idea we had in gone in 60 seconds and this was a good movie based on cars and Angelina Jolie on a Ducati. Here they took the same idea altered it around smuggling which is half so cool, what do you think could be the result?
Well…
The movie brings you the needed thrills for an action Thriller, but there was nothing too fancy about it, some tensions and cheap thrills made this thing still acceptable, there is no need to watch it at the movies, at home with the mid-size popcorn bucket would be enough. Because of all the above I grade this…
Grade: 7 out of 10
The movie brings you the needed thrills for an action Thriller, but there was nothing too fancy about it, some tensions and cheap thrills made this thing still acceptable, there is no need to watch it at the movies, at home with the mid-size popcorn bucket would be enough. Because of all the above I grade this…
Grade: 7 out of 10
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