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Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Over-familiar and industrial, a factory film made because a recycled script, minimal budget, a location, a grab-bag cast and some armored trucks were available. Read more
James Rocchi, MSN Movies: Like the guards in the film, Armored knows it has a job to do, and established procedures to follow, and that it's just another day at the office. But if a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well ... Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: An unabashed B movie: basic, brutal and sometimes clumsy, but far from dumb, and not bad at all. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: It's a film without twists, where everything is what it seems, and when the mess has been resolved, it's even at a loss for a proper denouement. Armored just ends-and with it, so does the access to plush chairs and free air conditioning. Read more
Cliff Doerksen, Chicago Reader: This unambitious caper flick takes a while to get moving but gradually develops a modest meat-and-potatoes appeal, compromised in the third act by a whopping and perfectly avoidable plot hole. Read more
Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly: Alas, Armored is one predictable and forgettable movie that should consider itself very lucky not to have gone straight to DVD. Read more
Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times: Armored won't win any prizes, but it does offer comforting evidence that there's still room for a well-crafted B movie among CG-laden spectacles. Read more
Nick Pinkerton, L.A. Weekly: Antal is never much beyond serviceable here, but he does make a chase-duel between two entirely identical armored cars almost decipherable, which is no mean feat. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: It isn't bulletproof by a long shot, but director Nimrod Antal's grungy gang-of-thieves pic is tough and, for this genre, surprisingly ethical. Read more