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Contraband
2012
· Movie
· 109 min
C
MEANRANK
61/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3826
- IMDb #3630
- Rotten Tomatoes #3518
- Metacritic #3532
- Letterboxd #4597
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3798
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3578
- Metacritic Critics #3298
- Metacritic Audience #3668
- Kinopoisk #2829
- AlloCiné #3165
- Trakt #3499
Every rating
50–80
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 50, highest is Google on 80. Critics average 50, everyone else 64.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A former legendary smuggler has left his criminal past behind to start a family. He is forced back into the game when his brother-in-law botches a drug deal for a ruthless gangster. To settle the debt, he assembles his old crew and plans one last high-stakes smuggling run from Panama to New Orleans, but the operation is far more dangerous than planned.
Details
- Director
- Baltasar Kormákur
- Writer
- Aaron Guzikowski
- Based on
- Reykjavík-Rotterdam
- Released
- 12 January 2012
- Country
- Iceland, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $96.3M
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