Armored

Name: Armored
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Released: December 4, 2009
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 50
Cast: Columbus Short, Laurence Fishburne, Matt Dillon

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Screen Gems | Release Date: December 4, 2009 | PG-13

Starring: Columbus Short, Laurence Fishburne, Matt Dillon

Summary: A crew of officers at an armored transport security firm risk their lives when they embark on the ultimate heist….against their own company. Armed with a seemingly fool-proof plan, the men plan on making off with a fortune with harm to none. But when an unexpected witness interferes, the plan quickly unravels and all bets are off. (Sony Pictures)

Director: Nimród Antal

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 88 min

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Glenn Whipp

A solid heist flick elevated by its ensemble cast and the visual eye of Hungarian-born director Nimrod Antal ("Kontroll"). Read full review

Ty Burr

A movie like Armored has been done better in the past. But it has also been done much, much worse, and Antal knows enough not to mess with the sturdy bones of the thing. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Director Nimrod Antal’s grungy gang-of-thieves pic is tough and, for this genre, surprisingly ethical. Read full review

Nick Pinkerton

The camaraderie in the Eagle Shield Transport locker room is strained stuff, despite a capable ensemble cast that includes Matt Dillon and Larry Fishburne. Read full review

Rob Nelson

A so-so heist-gone-awry thriller, light on the thrills, Armored doesn't exactly take its audience captive. Read full review

Cliff Doerksen

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. Read full review

Amy Biancolli

A rule of thumb for characters in heist movies: If the idiots hatching the scheme swear it's "foolproof," it isn't. If they say they've got a rock-solid alibi, they don't. If they're convinced nothing could possibly go wrong, something will. Read full review

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Shanked_Salt

Mar 31, 2011

The "acting" is cringe worthy.

The usually wise charactered Fisbourne plays a total fool and dillon is super annoying. The plot is ridicolous and seems half way through they ran out of creativity and didn't know how to end it. Why didn't they just give Still it's easy to watch andThe "acting" is cringe worthy.

The usually wise charactered Fisbourne plays a total fool and dillon is super annoying.

The plot is ridicolous and seems half way through they ran out of creativity and didn't know how to end it.
Why didn't they just give Still it's easy to watch and isn't too boring so acheives something to pass the time.… Expand

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BobS

Dec 5, 2009

Amazing simple as that.

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endelbendel

Mar 1, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is a retelling by distortion of an Old Testament story, specifically Abraham and Isaac. Cochrane is the anti-Abraham who repeats the theme family. Everything Cochrane says is a lie. The film is nihilistic, about usurping the father, The Name of the Father, which is represented by the policeman, by the impotent dispatcher, finally by the hospital as impersonal institution. Tyler believes in the Name of the father, Cochrane is perverse by attempting to occupy it personally. In the end the major conflict is whether belief and faith will yield prosperity. The film answers yes, but not without violence. Note the literal fall from grace of the Lucifer in the story when Palmer steps off the high building which Tyler has climb to heaven and receives salvation. This Isaac is not sacrificed, tho not due to divine judgement and design rather to his own persistent opposition to the crowd.… Expand

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jp992751

Jan 18, 2011

Having not heard anything about this movie I went in with an open mind and found myself enjoying Armored. It isn't an award winner and it isn't the most interesting and plot twisting story but it is short and makes the hour and a half you spend watching it worth it.

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ChadS.

Dec 4, 2009

In order for the heist to work, the filmmaker takes care of a potential plot loophole during the morning briefing scene, where the Eagle Shield Security boss(Fred Ward) announces to his employees that all armored trucks will be furbished with GPS units in the near-future. Since the heist In order for the heist to work, the filmmaker takes care of a potential plot loophole during the morning briefing scene, where the Eagle Shield Security boss(Fred Ward) announces to his employees that all armored trucks will be furbished with GPS units in the near-future. Since the heist entails that the vehicle be driven off its ordained route and into an abandoned warehouse, the moviegoer can be rest assured that the job is plausible, within reason. Nobody knows where the men are; the men with the bank's fourty-two-million-dollars, in what may be the most underwhelming caper ever captured on celluloid. Problem solved, sure, but contrivance rears its ugly head, and the story doesn't hold up to this very fact: With so much money at stake, wouldn't a bank insist that its armored truck service be up-to-date with all the latest technological advancements, like a GPS unit? Of course, they would. Of mild interest, the heist isn't told in chronological order: the second phase preceeds the first phase, in which the latter is disguised as a hazing ritual that the veteran men perform on Ty(Columbus Short), the rookie, the stock honest man-type character who goes crooked when society seemingly forces him to. As a result, "Armored" has no real payoff. The truck disappears inside the warehouse and never comes out. The narrative is mostly limited to this single setting, an approach to filmmaking that didn't mar "Kontroll"(a subway system), or "Vacancy"(a motel), but does here, as claustrophobia quickly sets in for the moviegoer. While calamity after calamity piles up in the immediate hour after Mike(Matt Dillon) checks in with homebase, you never get a sense of real time, or palpable urgency, before he has to check in again.… Expand

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BrettC

Dec 7, 2009

Not the worst movie that I have seen this year (that award goes to Paranormal Activity; I am not a fan of the 'found footage' genre), but there was little to no suspense and the action was limited to two 'chases' involving the armored cars.

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JeffH.

Dec 4, 2009

This movie is slow moving, witless, badly written trash. How far have Dillon and Fishbourne fallen to take this bad script,they must have needed the money. Also appropriate is that the directors name is Nimrod as his direction fits that perfectly.

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