Armored (2009)

It may be easy to generate a concept but it is difficult to develop a good screenplay. And then, how hard you try, you pick veterans among actors and add few thrilling moments but then that's it. You can't create good cinema if the screenplay is not offering something new or something different. Armored has experienced players such as Matt Dillon, Lawrence Fishburne and Jay Reno but it fails to bind the viewers to their seats all the time. It is strange that Nimrod Antal has given us Vacancy (2007) which was one of the best horror-thrillers of 2007 but he fails to deliver in Armored. A fool-proof robbery plan goes awry when one of the team member defects is an old concept. But more than that, there is disappointment over scenes which shows loose direction and implies that those scenes are pushed below the viewers throat. Columbus Short goes in and out of the van without no-one noticing him on two occasions, finds petrol canister so easily and near.

In case you got this movie from someone else collection and have nothing much to do, you can go for it once.

My Rating: 5.5/10