Armored

A group of armored-truck guards scheme to steal 40 million dollars in this by-the-numbers pressure-cooker thriller whose heat never delivers enough steam to make a trip to the flick worth it. Hungarian-American Nimród Antal once again heads back to blue-collar ensemble-land, hearkening back to his stellar debut, Kontroll, yet here he finds himself saddled with thinly sketched boneheaded characters surrounding the one sympathetic character in the bunch. The end result is a heavy tale that doesn't allow the audience to immerse themselves in the drama -- annoying instead of engaging the viewer at most turns. It doesn't help that the marketing for the film basically laid out the entire picture before it was even screened -- which, funny enough, doesn't end up making that much difference since the trailer was just as flat as the film it so succinctly summed up.