Movie Review: Broken City (2013)

 

Broken City (2013)

A Movie Review by Dave Randal

Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller

Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jeffrey Wright

Director: Allen Hughes

Writers: Brian Tucker

Studio: Regency Enterprises, Emmett/Furia Films

Distributed by: 20th Century Fox

Release Date: January 18, 2013

Plot: In a city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being used by Mayor Nicholas Hostetler.

 

January isn't exactly the best month for quality movie releases.  In fact January has kind of become a joke when it comes to new releases.  It is pretty much the time of the year where Hollywood just decides to unload a lot of mediocre crap.  I can't say that Broken City is mediocre crap, but it sure isn't a great movie either.

Movie Review: Contraband (2012)

Contraband 
A movie review by Dave Randal
February 19, 2012

Genre: Action | Crime | Drama

Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, Giovanni Ribisi, Kate Beckinsale

Director: Baltasar Kormakur,

Writers: Aaron Guzikowski

Release Date: January 13, 2012 (USA)

Plot: To protect his brother-in-law from a drug lord, a former smuggler heads to Panama to score millions of dollars in counterfeit bills.

Want to know more about this movie?: Contraband(2012) IMDb Page

I usually like watching movies with Mark Wahlberg. A lot of people will critique him as just being a muscle head who can't act, but I think he has a lot more depth as an actor than people think. In his new movie Contraband though I think he comes off pretty bland.

Contraband is about a man named John Bryce who was a former criminal who would smuggle things back into the country on a ship that he was apart of the crew of. He has since cleaned up his life starting a family and a security business. His young brother-in-law gets into some trouble after botching a smuggling job for some drug dealers and needs John's help to do one last job to pay off his debt.