Film Review – Armor

“Armor” is built to be a low-budget endeavor using occasional blasts of action to keep viewers interested in what’s a routine tale of parental guilt and criminal pressure. Screenwriters Cory Todd Hughes and Adrian Speckert are mostly interested in creating something small in scale and easy to manage, constructing a study of endurance as security guards are left in their overturned truck as a gang of crooks attempt to claim a special case contained within the vehicle. There’s not much to the effort beyond conversations and confrontations, leaving director Justin Routt (or Randall Emmett, allegedly the real helmer of the feature) to produce passably exciting ways to make a single location and a small company of actors exciting. “Armor” doesn’t achieve this goal, and while some of the performances are marginally alert, the film isn’t, struggling to sustain any level of suspense. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com