Chick Flicks and Bro Shows

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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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A Bro Show for sure, you have to see this one. In the first scene there is a ton of blood and guts, Awesome for the Ninja movie lover. The movie is about a bunch or children that are taken from the streets and taught the ways of the Ninja with no guilt and to be assassins when they grow up. The problem is one of the two of the children fall in love. Boy and Girl of course and the girl is killed by another student because the Master orders it. (The last test is to kill someone.)

Raizo (Played by Rain a Korean Pop Artist and also known as the Justin Timberlake of Korea) decided he was not going to go along with the scheme when the master wanted him to kill an innocent. There is much more plot to this movie so without giving to much of the movie plot I hope you get a chance to see it.

This is Rain’s first leading role in the US, he was also in Speed Racer (2008).

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