Armored Reviews
A very bad movie. Don’t waste time watching it. Poor , bad. It’s not worth your time.
The editing and pacing are terrible here. Boring generic soundtrack that thinks it's modern and good and everything else is supbar. The idea could be a cool thriller where most of the film takes place in the truck with one guy fighting back against the odds kind of like Panic Room. That sounds really cool but it's done so poorly here. Once he's trapped in the truck it feels like pointless stuff just happens. The banging sound as they try to get the door pried open gets sooooo annoying after awhile. And it gets so repetitive with it. The other sin is the characters are just stock and generic. Nothing really seperates the 5 bad guys from each other. And the main guy is pretty much by the numbers John Q. type stuff minus the terminally ill kid. The way it sets up the characters too is so messy and sloppy too. Why don't they just go and grab the kid immediately because they know his boy is the most important thing? How do they not hear him getting out and back in the truck? Why don't they have someone keep an eye on him when the cop shows up before he puts bills on the windows? It's got a bunch of plot holes too. And despite being not even 90 minutes it feels like it drags and is longer. If you take away the failed attempts to get in, and only leave the cop getting shot in and the kid than that's pretty much it. Nothing would be lost. There just isn't enough of a fleshed out story or character dynamics or a well thought out heist/survival hybrid. Skip This.
Can't believe writers like this exist!! And what's more unbelievable is that such cast agreed to it !!!
With better direction behind the camera, this could really have been something! It's got a great cast, and a story with enough about it to keep the thrills rolling from start to finish. There are plot holes that don't help, as well as a really poor ending, so it ends up selling itself short. Enjoyable action flick, for sure, but…
Good, well directed, good level production, good thing this was not like some of the other movies these days where only the bad guys win, so chalk one up for the good guys... This one is a win win...
good basic movie. suspenseful and enjoyable (2 viewings)
One dumb * movie it's stupid as **** very ** up I felt like ** on myself for watching the ** in all and all * this movie!!!!!
WOW......WOW.....WOW.....SO SO SO SO SO BAD......MAN THIS IS SUCH AN AWFUL MESSY MESSY MOVIE 2 WATCH, IT IS SO SO SO SO DREADFUL, IT IS SUCH AN AWFUL MOVIE 2 WATCH, IT IS SO SO SO AWFUL MOVIE 2 WATCH, IT IS SO SO SO DREADFUL, IT IS SO SO SO DREADFUL, IT IS SUCH AN AWFUL MOVIE 2 WATCH IT IS SUCH AN AWFUL MESSY MOVIE 2 WATCH.......WARNING THIS MOVIE CONTAINS STROBE LIGHTNING EFFECTS THROUGHOUT THIS MOVIE......MAN THIS IS SUCH AN AWFUL MOVIE 2 WATCH, IT IS SUCH AN AWFUL MESSY MOVIE 2 WATCH, IT IS SUCH AN AWFUL MOVIE 2 WATCH, IT IS SUCH A BAD MOVIE 2 WATCH, JUST AVOID THIS MOVIE AT ALL IT IS SUCH A BAD MOVIE 2 WATCH, JUST AVOID THIS MOVIE AT ALL COSTS IT IS THAT BAD.....JUST DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE IT IS SO AWFUL.......ITS GOT A GOOD SOUNDTRACK THROUGHOUT THIS MOVIE.....BUT MAN THIS MOVIE IS SO SO SO AWFUL 2 WATCH
(38%) A movie that really did fall between the cracks as I hadn't even known of its existence until I stumbled upon its trailer tucked away in a DVD's sub-menu. And after feeling somewhat hopeful for this maybe being a decent watch, with its good cast and potentially exciting premise, but after watching the movie itself I can now see why the studio maybe wasn't brimming with high hopes of this being the next big hit. This though isn't a bad little movie. It's entertaining, quite well bolted together, and as a simple time passer there are many worse films out there; but it's still badly plotted, overly tame (it should have been a hard R), and it just doesn't offer enough in terms of true thrills. Worth a look for free otherwise don't bother.
A good movie and Matt Dillon plays a bad guy really well those roles fit him well and for the hero he did a good thing.
I mean, they could have at least tried writing a half-decent script for this piece of cinematic crap. Unfortunately, theres little here to marvel at.
A really good cast here can't save the fact that the plot execution is bad and the story isn't that strong. The movie often feels forced and it is extremely predictable. The heist in this movie is to rob the money from an armored truck. Right there you should know the plan will go wrong as that is pretty much impossible to do.