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Armored (2009)

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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 Nimr�d 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

PG-13, 1 hr. 28 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Drama

Directed By: Nimr�d Antal

Written By: James V. Simpson, Chris Parker

In Theaters: Dec 4, 2009 Wide

On DVD: Mar 16, 2010

Box Office:$16.0M

Sony/Screen Gems

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Cast

Matt Dillon
Mike Cochrone
Jean Reno
Quinn
Laurence Fishburne
Baines
Amaury Nolasco
Palmer
Fred Ward
Duncan Ashcroft
Milo Ventimiglia
Eckehart
Skeet Ulrich
Dobbs
Columbus Short
Ty Hackett
Andrew Fiscella
Dispatcher #1
Nick Jameson
Homeless Man
Glenn Taranto
Joe the Cook
Lorna Raver
Child Welfare Agent
Gary Guerrier
Federal Guard
Robert Harvey
Bank Guard
Shawn Devorse
Federal Guard #2

Critic Reviews for Armored

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.

December 7, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Times

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A.O. Scott

New York Times

Top Critic

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.

December 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times

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Glenn Whipp

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

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.

December 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Cliff Doerksen

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

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.

December 4, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Daily News

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Joe Neumaier

New York Daily News

Top Critic

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.

December 4, 2009 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel

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Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

Top Critic

Alas, Armored is one predictable and forgettable movie that should consider itself very lucky not to have gone straight to DVD.

December 4, 2009 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Clark Collis

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

An action flick that gets bogged down with unlikely plot twists. Paul Chambers, CNN.

April 3, 2010 Full Review Source: CNNRadio

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Paul Chambers

CNNRadio

Armored fizzles at the moment of impact.

March 30, 2010 Full Review Source: Projection Booth

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Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

Isn't clever or inventive enough to seem like a high-stakes game.

March 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

It's free of gimmicky twists, to be sure, but it's also lacking tension, ingenuity and fun.

March 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Seanax.com

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Sean Axmaker

Seanax.com

Armored is tense, often gory, and quite arresting in that director Nimrod Antal does a grand job of building the characters up.

March 25, 2010 Comment

Staci Layne Wilson

Buzzine Magazine

Director Nimod Antal's stripped-down genre exercise -- there's not even a hint of a romantic subplot -- is unremarkable but efficient.

March 12, 2010 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

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John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

You'd have to put me in a lock box to see it again.

February 16, 2010 Full Review Source: 3BlackChicks Review

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Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

3BlackChicks Review

Armored should crackle with nervous energy; however, the bland characters don't get much of interest to do and are virtually interchangeable.

January 31, 2010 Full Review Source: Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

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Mark Pfeiffer

Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

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.

January 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Times [UK]

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Kevin Maher

Times [UK]

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.

January 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian [UK]

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.

January 22, 2010 Comment

Limara Salt

Little White Lies

Despite an intriguing premise, it doesn't really go anywhere.

January 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Digital Spy

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Stella Papamichael

Digital Spy

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.

January 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Sky Movies

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Tim Evans

Sky Movies

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.

January 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Total Film

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Ken McIntyre

Total Film

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.

January 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Radio Times

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Terry Staunton

Radio Times

An underwhelming heist-gone-wrong movie that, inexplicably, has avoided going straight to DVD.

January 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK]

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David Edwards

Daily Mirror [UK]

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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

Directors Cat

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, 2011

Chris Weber

Super Reviewer

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