The pure B-movie esprit is undeniable.

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

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

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

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 29, 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

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

The internecine calamity that ensues is nicely paced by Nimrd Antal - great name- and played with full-grimace intensity by Laurence Fishburne, Jean Reno, Skeet Ulrich and, the single phoner in the performances, Fred Ward. A safe bet for a DVD night.

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

Even with a hit-and-run running time of under 90 minutes, this solid, low-tension actioner outstays its welcome.

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

Armored is based on a first-time script which, thanks to a bit of industry hype, became the subject of a bidding war among the studios. Sony won the day. Guys, you were robbed.

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

An unabashed B movie: basic, brutal and sometimes clumsy, but far from dumb, and not bad at all.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 7, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 7, 2009

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.

| Dec 7, 2009

It's a film without twists, where everything is what it seems, and when the mess has been resolved, it's even at a loss for a proper denouement. Armored just ends-and with it, so does the access to plush chairs and free air conditioning.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 4, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2009

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

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 4, 2009

An initially intriguing plot line makes a messy getaway in this throwback heist movie.

Full Review | Dec 4, 2009

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

Full Review | Dec 4, 2009

Features Antal's characteristic emphasis on his characters rather than the situations into which they're thrust.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 4, 2009