Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur (Jar City) starred in the Icelandic film on which Contraband is based, but steps behind the camera for this Louisiana-based remake. Mark Wahlberg stars as Chris Farraday, a legendary smuggler who is tempted back into the game for one last run. Perhaps aware of the cliché at the heart of the narrative, Kormakur chucks the camera around to generate a nervy, paranoid energy. With his family menaced on a daily basis by Giovanni Ribisi sporting gangster tattoos and a weird, squeaky Donald Duck voice, Farraday must pull off a high stakes job or risk the safety of his loved ones. Unfortunately everything that can go wrong does. However, given the constant threat of being fed to wolves, buried alive in wet concrete or betrayed by friends and associates, there is precious little actual tension here. Baltasar Kormakur, 15 (100mins)