Mark Wahlberg stars as a master smuggler in Contraband but he should have smuggled a sense of fun and a script that wasn’t completely full of heist movie cliches.

Contraband took the top spot at the box office this weekend while The Devil Inside plummeted to sixth place with the 19th biggest drop off in history.

Even though January is usual the dumping ground for bad movies, there looks to be some solid ones coming out including The Grey with Liam Neeson and Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire.

Coming out on DVD and Blu Ray in January, Sinners and Saints features an eclectic mix of actors and follows a New Orleans cop as he investigates a grisly, gang related murder.

Mark Wahlberg is a retired smuggler who is pulled into “one last job” to help his wife’s brother after he gets in trouble on his own smuggling job.

Jason Statham stars in a remake of the Charles Bronson hitman thriller, The Mechanic, coming out this January.

Nicolas Cage dons some Crusader armor and must transport a suspected witch in the upcoming Season of the Witch.

If you didn’t get enough vehicular mayhem from the first Death Race, there’s a sequel coming straight to video in January.

We check out what’s coming out in theaters during the early part of 2010 including Alice in Wonderland, Clash of the Titans, Shutter Island and The Wolfman.