( January 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)įormer smuggler Chris Farraday ( Mark Wahlberg) lives a peaceful life with his wife, Kate ( Kate Beckinsale), and their two sons in New Orleans. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. The film’s final action climax (there’s at least two or three) is right from THE PERILS OF PAULINE.This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. It’s just a shame they aren’t all involving ain a better thought thriller. It’s another interesting performance by an actor who’s compiling an impressive resume. Ben Foster really show us this guy’s inner conflict. He’s given up booze and crime, but seems to miss the old thrills. Foster’s Sebastian may be the most complex of the bunch.
I hope in his next role he gets to clear his throat and clean up a bit. Speaking of lowlifes, Ribisi seems to be doing a riff on the growly, grizzled creep he just played in RUM DIARY. Beckinsale’s always a lovely screen presence, but she spends way too much time here being bounced around like a rag doll by the different lowlifes. You can almost hear the gears in his head grinding as he has to come up with a new escape idea. Wahlberg commands the screen as a good man forced to do bad things (but no drug running!) who tries to survive using his skills and street smarts. The actors do their best with this disjointed thriller. In Panama Chris and his pal are recruited by a wild-eyed crime kingpin (an under-used Diego Luna) in an armored car hit (how long before the ship leaves?). Jonah Jamieson-mode), but quickly we’re back watching Briggs hovering near a kids soccer game.
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It’s fun to see Chris stay one step ahead of the ship’s captain (JK Simmons in full surly, grumpy J. Unfortunately the film makes too many side trips and cuts back and forth from the Big Easy to the big ship, so the forward momentum can’t gain any speed. It’s a nice change from the bank vault or museum break-in. The world of smuggling makes an interesting new venue for the crime thriller. Talk about getting pulled back in (and pulled in several directions)!
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In and out! No problems, right?! If you think that’s the case then you don’t know your movie crime capers! And of course, that mad dog Briggs and his thugs are bearing down on Sebastian and the Faraday family back in the states. Once they reach Panama, Andy and a couple of guys will dash over in a van, collect the funny money, and be back in an hour when the ship’s ready to leave the dock. Thanks to Sebastian’s connections Chris becomes a crew member on a cargo ship headed south (several pals are already planted on board to help along with Andy). But like the Corleones, Chris wants nothing to do with that “dirty business” and hatches a plan to bring in several loads of counterfeit cash.
He contacts another runner who’s gone legit, his old pal Sebastian (Ben Foster) who suggests making a drug run to Panama. Chris tries to cut a deal with Briggs, who insists that he be reimbursed for his lost revenue (700 grand!) otherwise the debt falls to Chris and his family.Ĭhris has no choice, but to go for one last big score. Andy survives the attack and tells Chris what happened. The violent, lowlife drug dealer Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi) who hired him is not so understanding once Andy and his partner are on dry land. He’s part of the crew on a ship that’s boarded by custom authorities (they even lower down drug-sniffing dogs from a helicopter) and Andy tosses his backpack filled with cocaine over the railing into the sea. Unfortunately, he’s not as good as his brother-in-law.
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