There’s something unusual about Mark Wahlberg’s new movie, Contraband (about smuggling, drugs, family, and stuff), that isn’t immediately obvious, and it has something to do with a little northern volcanic island. Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur has been making Icelandic movies in varying genres for years. In 2000, he made 101 Reykjavík, a bizarre and cynical gay comedy, and Contraband is a remake of 2008’s Reykjavik-Rotterdam, an Icelandic blockbuster starring none other than Kormákur himself. At its best, Contraband pulls something fresh out of derivative characters, and watching Wahlberg, “the Houdini of smuggling,” work his way out of a freight-sized cocaine-flavored pickle is entertaining. Throughout the film, Kormákur creates random and wonderfully funny moments that almost make up for the film’s weaknesses, the biggest of which is that Contraband is a fairly typical dumb action movie.