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‘Armor’ Review: Suspense Stalls Out on a Bridge in an Uninspired Heist Thriller With Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone’s bad guys want the contents of Jason Patric’s armored truck in 'Armor,' an action movie that fails to deliver much excitement.
That lack of enthusiasm will be echoed by most viewers watching this uninspired action programmer, in which top-billed Jason Patric ’s driver and coworker-son Josh Wiggins get waylaid by armed robbers while transporting bank funds — and, unknown to them, some even-more-valuable contraband. Chased and rammed, the truck is finally stopped in the middle of a rural bridge with plenty of structures within sight — so it makes no sense that this squealing-tires fracas, let alone the gunfire and explosions that follow, don’t immediately draw officers of the law. Instead, we are all too aware that we’re stuck on a bridge with a lot of argumentative blowhards, uncertain why no other cars come by to note the blocked roadway … let alone why police aren’t hustling to what must be a rare outburst of very noisy crime in this rural area.
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