B-grade though it may be, Armored fulfills all the basic needs of your average thriller, doing so with a predictable setup and by relying on the bare essentials.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 28, 2023

No-nonsense B crime thriller.

| Original Score: B | Apr 28, 2018

The pure B-movie esprit is undeniable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

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

| Original Score: C- | Apr 3, 2010

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

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 29, 2010

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

| Mar 25, 2010

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

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 12, 2010

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

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 16, 2010

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

| Original Score: C | Jan 31, 2010

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 22, 2010

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 22, 2010

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.

Full Review | Jan 22, 2010

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 22, 2010

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 22, 2010

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2010

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 22, 2010

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 22, 2010

Things are jollied along by some very stiff acting, especially from Dillon. The film, shot in crisp widescreen, is surprisingly pleasant to look at. It is also surprisingly restrained.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2010