Contraband

I won?t try to make the case, as Adam Sternbergh half-jokingly did on the Times? 6^th Floor blog early this week, that Wahlberg has been cheated of his due as the greatest actor of his generation. Though there?s no question he?s been wonderful in movies as diverse as Three Kings, Boogie Nights, The Fighter, and I Heart Huckabees, Wahlberg is no accent-mastering shape-shifter, no saturnine Leo Di Caprio or whimsical Johnny Depp: What you see is what you get. But this true-to-his-word decency, this simplicity, is precisely what you cast Wahlberg for. I had plenty of time to consider the actor?s appeal during the unspooling of the otherwise nondescript Contraband, and here?s what I came up with: Mark Wahlberg is attractive because he seems genuinely, effortlessly masculine rather than anxiously, compensatorily macho. You believe he could singlehandedly spearhead an international smuggling scheme while also believing he?s a sweet, vulnerable family man hopelessly in love with his wife. Liam Neeson shares this badass-yet-tender quality; it?s served both actors well in the current action-hero phase of their careers, and (speaking purely as a film scholar) it?s catnip to the ladies.

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