Product Details

• Actors: Columbus Short, Laurence Fishburne
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: March 16, 2010
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0021L8UWG
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #246 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

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A good cast does its best to make Armored roll, but while this heist flick certainly has its moments, it's ultimately arrested by a predictable story, cliché-ridden dialogue, and ham-fisted direction. Matt Dillon plays Mike, the leader of a sextet of guards working for an armored truck company; other members of the team are portrayed by Laurence Fishburne, Jean Reno, Skeet Ulrich, and Amaury Nolasco, but the key is newcomer Ty (Columbus Short), an Iraq War veteran whose parents have both died, leaving Ty to support his troubled younger brother and somehow pay the mortgage on the home their folks left behind. When Mike and the others cook up a scheme to steal a cool $42 million on their next delivery and then claim they were hijacked, Ty is dead set against it--until he goes home and is greeted by a child-welfare official who threatens to put his brother into foster care unless Ty can prove himself capable of looking after the kid (this is but one of the handy plot conveniences designed to push the story forward). Predictability is one thing, but director Nimrod Antal and screenwriter James V. Simpson's setups are so on-the-nose that Helen Keller could see what's coming ("Promise me nobody gets hurt," Ty says to Mike, which guarantees that the body count will start to mount almost instantly). Armored has some good action sequences, a gritty look, a couple of welcome surprises, and the occasional tense moment. But when the great heist movies are recalled, from Topkapi to Sexy Beast, this one is unlikely to be among them. --Sam Graham


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Product Description

A crew of officers at an armored transport security firm risk their lives when they embark on the ultimate heist.against their own company. Armed with a seemingly fool-proof plan, the men plan on making off with a fortune with harm to none. But when an unexpected witness interferes, the plan quickly unravels and all bets are off.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent story, excellent acting, and excellent use of the movie's time., December 7, 2009

By	Mohamed F. El-Hewie (Hackensack, NJ USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Although I watched the movie in a theater merely 20 miles away from Brooklyn, NY, the proximate locale of the movie's theme, I could strongly sense that the movie succeeded immensely in transcending the big screen into the real people, culture, and everyday life of New Yorkers.

The choice of the story created enormous opportunities to all actors to shine at their best. There is no better place than New York that could inspire writers, actors, philosophers, reformers, and artists to marvel into the diversity of its people, its social strata, its financial inequalities, and its progressive social changes. The blue-collar workers who are fueling the gears of such mighty capitalistic machine have access to its lethal weapons of ending few lives and to its powerful currency of building greater and new lives. They were enticed by both powers in their immediate access yet deprived of any hope of bettering their lives through deciphering the laws and regulations that control that machine.

Each actor who took part in the movie fitted perfectly in the role he played (there were few female roles to start with). The faces, the skin textures, the accents, and the racial and age mix of the players, all reflect on the real people, their struggles, and the challenges they face in their every day life. The contemporary nature of the movie's story and the abundance of amateur actors in urban America brought real people to play real roles.

The poor workers, whose occupation was to guard the treasury of the wealthy community, must compartmentalize their endless insecurities from those they protect. Their sharing of common struggle deprived them from their individual abilities to dissent. Their immediate herd is their ultimate authority, against which dissent amounts to capital rejection.

The only dissent that appeared attractive was snatching money by relying on the old trick of avoiding the mistakes that predecessors have made. Only a young man retained his sense of the line between crime and plain error. His dilemma of keeping his house and his brother under one roof, after losing both parents in one year, lent him the power of dissenting when confronting a scene of murder of an innocent person. His stars were aligned in his favor when he was able to save the life of a police officer, who would later testify to his true benevolence.

The rest of the followers appeared overwhelmed by their swift and unexpected entanglement in unfolding murders and robbery. Their struggle with sticking to the herd rules versus disentangling themselves from their bleak detriment characterized naïve persons, facing unfortunate life situations. Those with weak ego attempted to stay low, unnoticed until opportunities present themselves. Those with strong will attempted to make expedient decisions to solve immediate problems, in hope that luck would strike if they persevered. The only person, whose mind was wired to protect his only orphan brother, succeeded to the end maintaining his sanity.

Clearly, the movie succeeded in showing that the drift to abrupt criminal conduct was mere mitigating circumstances that drove a punch of desperate people to find a way out of their endless misery. All participants showed human decency of common people who happened to fall in the traps of poor judgment, enforced by never ending oppression of poverty, insecurity, and hard labor.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A little more suspense, February 1, 2010

By	R. M. Silkey - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Armored [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

The classic take on what happens when people get greedy. Yeah, the movie is for the most part predictable and somewhat cliche ridden. Overall, it's not the worst movie I've seen. Good flick on a rainy day or night when nothing else is on. While it may not overwhelm you with it's storyline you at least will be entertained.....and then go on about your business!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Morality unhinged, December 16, 2009

By	Edmonson (Canada) - See all my reviews

"Armored" is about a heist that goes all wrong, of the money from an armored vehicle, by the same security guards who are suppose to be safeguarding the money. Mat Dillon and Laurence Fishburne star in this edge of your seat thriller which explores to some degree the various dimensions of how human greed can warp people's sense of morality.