Armored (2009)

Armored
2009
Action
Laurence Fishburn, Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, Skeet Ulrich

Armored is about a team of armored car drivers who plan on stealing the money from the cars they are supposed to protect. Now with a heist movie the thing that usually draws me in is that the criminals have an ingenious plan. This is definitely not the case with the plan in Armored. The plan they come up with is one of the worst heist plans I have ever heard in my life. Their plan is to hide the money then just say they were robbed. That's it. It is like something a five year old came up with. If that really happened the police would figure it out in about a day. One of the characters says "the police will be all over us, but only at first" so stupid. Thankfully for the movie's sake the plan does not go according to schedule so they are forced to deal with new circumstances as they happen. And since they aren't that smart to begin with (based on their origianl plan) they don't really adpat that well. All the performances were quality. I don't know how they managed to get so many recognizable actors in this movie when they all only really play supporting roles, but it benefits the film greatly. I mean this isn't exactly Oscar material, but it is always nice when actors still do good work in a movie like this. The last 30 minutes or so were very exciting because you don't really know what is going to happen and how all the characters will deal with the twists happening around them. Armored isn't a great movie, there are much better movies about heists you could check out, but its got enough good stuff going for it (like the cast), that it is worth checking out.

3 out of 5 Stars
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