You know the semester is winding down when final papers are due, finals are in sight, and SCOPE Film Committee has their last weekly movie of the semester.  On Tuesday, April 24 in the Bartels Cafeteria, SCOPE Film Committee showed Contraband, and it a hit.  Students were joyous and sad at the same time, because it was going to be great movie, but it was also going to be the last weekly movie of the semester.

The movie followed an ex-smuggler, Chris Farraday played by Mark Wahlberg, who apparently wanted to get out of the game.  Once upon a time Farraday smuggled illegal drugs, contraband, into the United States on freighters from the south.  A few years ago, he left that life when he got married, had kids, and started living a normal life.  But when Farraday found out that his brother-in-law Andy, played by Caleb Landry Jones, blew a deal with one of the biggest drug lords Briggs, played by Giovanni Ribisi, and his life is on the line, Farraday jumps on the next freighter to Panama to help his brother-in-law out of his sticky situation.  Who wouldn’t for family?

Of course it’s a Mark Wahlberg movie, so there was a lot of action, guns firing, beating, threatening, and just plain awesomeness.  And as the students sat in the audience, they loved every action packed second.

Not only were the students sad to see the last movie of the semester, so was the SCOPE Film Committee. When the movie ended, they thanked everyone for coming to this movie and every other movie throughout the semester.  The committee worked really hard all year and did a fantastic job in bringing great movies to campus.