Average Rating: 4.7/10
Reviews Counted: 55
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 32
This B-grade thriller has a good cast and director but is undone by plot holes and messy conclusion.
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 5
This B-grade thriller has a good cast and director but is undone by plot holes and messy conclusion.
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Vacancy director Nimród Antal helms the crime thriller Armored, starring Columbus Short as Ty, an armored truck guard who gets wrapped up in a heist scheme hatched by his godfather and mentor on the job, Mike (Matt Dillon). Along with a team that includes Laurence Fishburne, Jean Reno, and Skeet Ulrich, the group makes off with a shipment of 40 million dollars, but things start to unravel when one of them kills a homeless man as they stash the cash. Ty, who almost didn't sign on to the job but
Dec 4, 2009 Wide
Mar 16, 2010
$16.0M
Sony/Screen Gems
All Critics (55) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (32) | DVD (4)
An unabashed B movie: basic, brutal and sometimes clumsy, but far from dumb, and not bad at all.
Armored won't win any prizes, but it does offer comforting evidence that there's still room for a well-crafted B movie among CG-laden spectacles.
This unambitious caper flick takes a while to get moving but gradually develops a modest meat-and-potatoes appeal, compromised in the third act by a whopping and perfectly avoidable plot hole.
It isn't bulletproof by a long shot, but director Nimrod Antal's grungy gang-of-thieves pic is tough and, for this genre, surprisingly ethical.
Over-familiar and industrial, a factory film made because a recycled script, minimal budget, a location, a grab-bag cast and some armored trucks were available.
Alas, Armored is one predictable and forgettable movie that should consider itself very lucky not to have gone straight to DVD.
An action flick that gets bogged down with unlikely plot twists. Paul Chambers, CNN.
Armored fizzles at the moment of impact.
Isn't clever or inventive enough to seem like a high-stakes game.
It's free of gimmicky twists, to be sure, but it's also lacking tension, ingenuity and fun.
Armored is tense, often gory, and quite arresting in that director Nimrod Antal does a grand job of building the characters up.
Director Nimod Antal's stripped-down genre exercise -- there's not even a hint of a romantic subplot -- is unremarkable but efficient.
You'd have to put me in a lock box to see it again.
Armored should crackle with nervous energy; however, the bland characters don't get much of interest to do and are virtually interchangeable.
A host of charismatic character actors, including Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne and Matt Dillon, slum it about amiably in Armoured, a B-movie action thriller, before it all implodes in the final unbelievable act.
None of the plan details so essential to a tense heist drama are given to us; the gang's individual characterisations get lost, and the movie gets boringly marooned in a Reservoir Dogsish abandoned stockyard. Disappointing.
The absolute awfulness of Armoured can't be ignored but with a group of friends and an open bar, there is still plenty of fun to be had.
Despite an intriguing premise, it doesn't really go anywhere.
This is a mess of unconvincing characters, doolally plotting and dumb flag-waving - the one honest character being an Iraq vet forced to join the others in their brain-dead scam.
Armored's first half is an overwrought, eye-rolling bro-venture, but once the actual robbery takes place, the film ratchets up into a solid testosterone-soaked thriller.
Antal's attempts to crank up the tension are telegraphed far too often and undermined by a flagrant disregard for logic, meaning this never delivers quite enough bang for your buck.
An underwhelming heist-gone-wrong movie that, inexplicably, has avoided going straight to DVD.
I think this movie isn't getting the credit it deserves. It did have a few flaws and didn't have a lot of substance but all in all it was exciting to watch and I think it's an above average and unique heist movie. There was a bit of character development with great direction and amazing cinematography and lighting. It
January 18, 2012
Super Reviewer
This starts off as a fairly strong thriller with a good build up, but then spirals out a control and gets a little ridiculous, ultimately adding up to something shakey and a fizzled letdown. It's ALMOST fairly good though. There are some parts that are well done, and you can tell that everyone was at least trying.The
May 16, 2011Super Reviewer
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