Early morning, Ty Hackett (Columbus Short) is getting ready for work. He wakes up his younger brother, Jimmy (Andre Kinney), and tells him to get ready for high school. Both his parents recently died and left him with the mortgage and Jimmy to look out for. Ty is picked up by Mike Cochrane (Matt Dillon), and they carpool to work at the Eagle Shield Armored Truck Co. At work, the security team (Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne, Amaury Nolasco, Skeet Ulrich) meets for the morning briefing with Chief Ashcroft (Fred Ward). Then the newbie guard for an armored truck company is coerced by his veteran coworkers to steal a truck containing $42 million. But a wrinkle in their supposedly foolproof scheme divides the group, and things get worse , leading to a potentially deadly resolution. They have a plan that's going to catch everybody off-guard !. They Did everything to make the Plan go well, What went wrong?
This is an impressive little thriller with strong violence , twists , turns with killings and action-packed finale , filled with double-crosses, greed and lethal retribution. The plot is plain and simple , the typical heist carried out by a motley group to rob a highly armored truck in broad daylight , but it goes wrong , an ordinary theme we have already seen in other films , here with the novelty that the peculiar gang of criminals are corrupt security guards . It results to be a bitter meditation on deceiving , defeat , treason , disenchantment and justice . Nimrod Atal's special achievement , giving a memorable work , attempting to incorporate his own personal obsessions into the steely violent events . A more professional and competent work than his early works , this one shows , set piece by set piece, the breakdown of the criminal codes with a team of corrupt roles whose activities little by little get worse . Dealing with an outlandish heist , that's ingeniously planned and meticulously filmed, but things go awry . Stars Columbus Short as a honest war hero, having earned the Silver Star in Iraq who becomes involved into a twisted hold-up . The film includes star-studded with great main and support cast giving competent interpretations , formed by popular and successful faces , including the following ones : Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne, Amaury Nolasco, Fred Ward , Milo Ventimiglia , Skeet Ulrich and a teen Andre Jamal.
It contains an exciting and well-adjusted to the action musical score by composer John Murphy . As well as adequate and functional cinematography by cameraman Andrzej Sekula who also has directed a few films . The motion picture was well directed by Nimród Antal. He is best known for writing and directing the Hungarian-language film Kontroll (2003), which won numerous awards, including the Award of the Youth at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival, as well as a European Film Award nomination for Best film . Antal's first American feature movie , Vacancy (2007), starring Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson, was released on April 20, 2007 getting sucess enough. His second American film, Armored (2009), was released in December 2009 and with American star-studded cast. Nimród Antal was hired for ¨Armored¨because producers enjoyed Antal's earlier films ¨Kontroll¨ and ¨Vacancy¨ and subsequenly filming a nice sequel : ¨Predators¨. This remarkable and decent action film will appeal to thriller buffs and fans of the big stars appearing here and there. Well worth watching. So it's worth seeing , specially for the robbery sequences.
This is an impressive little thriller with strong violence , twists , turns with killings and action-packed finale , filled with double-crosses, greed and lethal retribution. The plot is plain and simple , the typical heist carried out by a motley group to rob a highly armored truck in broad daylight , but it goes wrong , an ordinary theme we have already seen in other films , here with the novelty that the peculiar gang of criminals are corrupt security guards . It results to be a bitter meditation on deceiving , defeat , treason , disenchantment and justice . Nimrod Atal's special achievement , giving a memorable work , attempting to incorporate his own personal obsessions into the steely violent events . A more professional and competent work than his early works , this one shows , set piece by set piece, the breakdown of the criminal codes with a team of corrupt roles whose activities little by little get worse . Dealing with an outlandish heist , that's ingeniously planned and meticulously filmed, but things go awry . Stars Columbus Short as a honest war hero, having earned the Silver Star in Iraq who becomes involved into a twisted hold-up . The film includes star-studded with great main and support cast giving competent interpretations , formed by popular and successful faces , including the following ones : Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne, Amaury Nolasco, Fred Ward , Milo Ventimiglia , Skeet Ulrich and a teen Andre Jamal.
It contains an exciting and well-adjusted to the action musical score by composer John Murphy . As well as adequate and functional cinematography by cameraman Andrzej Sekula who also has directed a few films . The motion picture was well directed by Nimród Antal. He is best known for writing and directing the Hungarian-language film Kontroll (2003), which won numerous awards, including the Award of the Youth at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival, as well as a European Film Award nomination for Best film . Antal's first American feature movie , Vacancy (2007), starring Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson, was released on April 20, 2007 getting sucess enough. His second American film, Armored (2009), was released in December 2009 and with American star-studded cast. Nimród Antal was hired for ¨Armored¨because producers enjoyed Antal's earlier films ¨Kontroll¨ and ¨Vacancy¨ and subsequenly filming a nice sequel : ¨Predators¨. This remarkable and decent action film will appeal to thriller buffs and fans of the big stars appearing here and there. Well worth watching. So it's worth seeing , specially for the robbery sequences.