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Contraband – review
17 March 2012 5:04 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The highly efficient British production team of Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner have followed up their excellent new version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with a remake of the lesser-known Icelandic thriller Reykjavik-Rotterdam. This convoluted smuggling yarn now involves the transporting of counterfeit dollars, cocaine and a valuable Jackson Pollock painting from Panama to New Orleans and stars Mark Wahlberg as a reformed smuggler who takes on the job to save his pathetic brother-in-law from the revenge of the mob. Giovanni Ribisi is the snivelling head of the crooks, and the dependable J K Simmons steals almost every scene he's in as the captain of the container ship carrying the contraband. Conventional, fairly exciting stuff, its most distinctive feature perhaps is the realistic, atmospheric photography by Ken Loach's regular collaborator, Barry Ackroyd.
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- Philip French
Contraband Review
15 March 2012 4:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
What do you get when production company Working Title teams up with the director of the gentle, understated Icelandic comedy 101 Reykjavík? The answer is (somewhat surprisingly) pulpy, action-drama remake, Contraband.
Mark Wahlberg is Chris Farraday, a once world-class smuggler who has now gone legit and lives a peaceful existence with his wife Kate (Kate Beckinsale) and their children in New Orleans, where he runs a domestic security business. His suburban bliss is interrupted when (wouldn’t you know it) he’s forced back into his old life when Kate’s younger brother Andy (X-Men: First Class graduate Caleb Landry Jones) lands himself in hot water after ditching a consignment he’s been smuggling over to the Us for mob lackey Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi) when U.S. Customs intervene.
Briggs is hardly what you’d describe as the forgiving type, and he insists on being paid back everything owed to him. »
- Adam Lowes
Captain Phillips To Start Shooting
17 February 2012 3:30 AM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
With Bourne, United 93 and Green Zone in his locker, Paul Greengrass is a filmmaker who's as comfortable as anyone navigating the political complexities of the post-9/11 landscape. He's extending that to 'seascape' too, with his new thriller, Captain Phillips, set almost entirely in the Indian Ocean. After a few false starts, cameras are finally poised to start rolling on the director's dramatisation of the 2008 Maersk Alabama hijacking. The movie stars Tom Hanks as the ship's American skipper, Capt. Richard Phillips, and revolves around his, and his crew's terrifying encounter with a bunch of gun-toting Somali pirates. Not even the yo-ho-ho'ing kind of pirates. The nasty ones.The project reunites Greengrass with his Green Zone and United 93 cinematographer Barry Ackroyd, whose handheld camerawork should make the claustrophobic ship interiors a nightmarish rabbit warren. The DoP told Empire that the latter movie will offer the closest point of reference to »
Coriolanus – review
21 January 2012 4:10 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
In his directorial debut Ralph Fiennes has created a vivid, intelligent Coriolanus with powerful political relevance
Modern-dress Shakespeare has been with us for nearly a century, long enough to cease being a novelty or in need of justification. Barry Jackson's 1920s Cymbeline at Birmingham Rep with the cast in first world war uniform is the key example we were shown pictures of as sixth-formers in the late 40s. Traditional dress, however we define it, is currently pretty rare, though film-makers, no doubt because of the continuing popularity of Roman epics, reached for their togas when Charlton Heston appeared in fustian versions of Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. The only recent movie to deal with one of the Roman plays was Richard Linklater's 2008 Me and Orson Welles, about the controversy surrounding Welles's 1937 anti-fascist modern-dress production of Julius Caesar in New York.
But now we have Ralph Fiennes's bloody and bold directorial debut, »
- Philip French
Coriolanus Review
17 January 2012 4:00 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Another Shakespearian text receives the contemporary treatment (albeit via one of his lesser-known plays) with Bard veteran Ralph Fiennes making his directorial debut alongside ably filling the central role of proud and defiant general, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus.
The ruler of Rome (portrayed here as a faceless English city), Coriolanus is a fierce, unrepentant soldier whose power and authority is called into question by the lower-class citizens who are on cusp of forging a civil war. Two scheming politicians, Sicinius and Brutus, convince the people to cast out their leader, and he is soon banished from his kingdom, leaving his wife and young son behind, along with his mother Volumnia – a commanding and pivotal figure in his life who has steered him through his military and political career.
Left to wander the land, he journeys to Volsci, the region which is home to his mortal enemy Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler). Making peace with him, »
- Adam Lowes
[Review] Contraband
13 January 2012 5:30 AM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Judging by the advertisements for Contraband, I expected to watch a half-baked actioner with big beats and little brains (let alone heart). Instead the film, a remake of the Icelandic Reykjavik-Rotterdam and with a cast member as director, is a more than capable action picture, filled with fun small moments and a tight script that whisks us from the unmistakable charm of New Olreans onto the high-seas and into the high stakes world of illegal contraband.
Chris Farraday (a fully-engaged Mark Wahlberg) was one of the best runners of contraband in the delta, a fact reiterated more than a few times in the opening scene at a former crew member (Lukas Hass)’s wedding. But now he’s just a regular Joe, living with his wife Kate (Kate Beckinsale) and his two kids, setting up security systems to keep people like himself out of homes. While Chris is out of the game, »
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Director Baltasar Kormákur Contraband Interview
9 January 2012 5:37 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Set in New Orleans, Contraband is Mark Whalberg’s new thriller about smuggling on container ships. He plays a blue-collar family man who’s sworn off his former life of crime, until his brother-in-law botches a drug deal and needs his help in order to repay the debt. Whalberg agrees to do one last job, running contraband from Panama on a container ship. Kate Beckinsale plays Whalberg’s wife, Ben Foster his best friend and business partner, and Giovanni Ribisi plays a New Orleans drug runner. A remake of the Icelandic film Reykjavík-Rotterdam (2008), Contraband is directed by Baltasar Kormákur, who played the lead character in the original. At the press conference in New York, Kormákur spoke to a room of journalists about how the project came together, the choice of cinematographer Barry Ackroyd (The Hurt Locker), and his thoughts on the film’s moral ambiguity. Hit the jump for the interview. »
- Heather Warburton
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