History Film / Armored

Tyler Hackett is a security guard who works for an armored transport company. He's left to raise his younger brother Jimmy by himself after his parents died, but struggles to keep their family together as it looks like he can't keep the house due to lack of payments. His colleagues, led by his godfather and family friend Mike Cochrane, approach him for an inside job to rob their own company. Ty initially refuses until he is reassured that no one will get hurt in the theft. The guards proceed with the plan until things take a turn for the worse as they're forced to shoot an unfortunate witness. Ty subsequently barricades himself inside the truck and tries to wait for backup while his colleagues are determined to steal the money and kill him.

* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Brother]]: The robbers get desperate enough at Ty's barricading that they kidnap his brother and threaten to kill him if Ty doesn't opens up. This leads to Ty [[spoiler: jury-rigging the bomb mentioned below]].

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Mike Cochrane, to the max, as observed by Tyler throughout the course of the plan going awry. Finding the opportunity to pull a $42 million heist irresistible to the point he had to pull Tyler in to get the necessary numbers for it was the first sign to Ty that things were going too far. Not abandoning ship (or letting Ty do so) once Baines broke their "nobody gets hurt" promise let Ty know that he couldn't trust Mike. From there, Mike would repeatedly hatch every plan in the book to try to get out with the money anyway as well as kill Ty and [[MauveShirt deputy Jake Echkehart]] [[HeKnowsTooMuch to keep him from talking]]. This winds up [[spoiler:forcing Palmer to kill first Dobbs, then himself, because of their consciences, and gets Quinn and Baines killed when Tyler decides to blow up the the money in his car and they get caught in the blast. Finally, the fiasco ends... with Mike's soul so far gone that even with all the money burned, he tries to viciously run over and kill his own godson with the armored truck rather than admit this whole thing went a million degrees wrong.]]

* NewOrleans: Where the story takes place, mostly on the outskirts. An abandoned steel plant on that area and the post-Katrina economy (or how bad it was) figures greatly in the plot.

* DuelingStarsMovie: [[Series/{{Entourage}} Kevin Dillon]], Creator/JeanReno, LaurenceFishburne, Skeet Ulrich, Fred Ward, [[Film/TheLosers Columbus]] [[Series/{{Scandal}} Short]] and [[Series/{{Heroes}} Milo Ventimiglia]] all have a role.

* DuelingStarsMovie: [[Series/{{Entourage}} Kevin Dillon]], JeanReno, LaurenceFishburne, Skeet Ulrich, Fred Ward, [[Film/TheLosers Columbus]] [[Series/{{Scandal}} Short]] and [[Series/{{Heroes}} Milo Ventimiglia]] all have a role.

* HopeSpot: The triggering of the truck's alarm brings Eckehart to the steel mill to see what is going on (being the only person who heard it), but he gets shot (and his personal radio is destroyed) and Ty has to drag him into the truck to try to keep him from bleeding to death. [[spoiler: Also Tyler manages to convince Dobbs that the they are going too far with the heist but Dobbs, rather than becoming helpful, ends up going into a guilt-ridden FreakOut that forces Palmer to kill him.]]

* DuelingStarsMovie: Kevin Dillon, JeanReno, LaurenceFishburne, Skeet Ulrich, Fred Ward and Milo Ventimiglia all have a role.

* InitiationCeremony: Amongst the Eagle Shield crew (or at least the one the movie follows), hazing their new guys with a simulation of a heist on their truck using high explosives and the new guy stuck on the point-blank range of the potential blast. Many laughs are had at the new guy's {[OhCrap crapping of his pants]].

* InitiationCeremony: Amongst the Eagle Shield crew (or at least the one the movie follows), hazing their new guys with a simulation of a heist on their truck using high explosives and the new guy stuck on the point-blank range of the potential blast. Many laughs are had.

* DuelingStarsMovie: Kevin , JeanReno, LaurenceFishburne, Skeet Ulrich, Fred Ward and star.

* CrimeAfterCrime: The whole movie is one long use of this trope. The main plot starts off with a plan by a group of six or so armored truck drivers to steal the money they're transporting. Tyler, the protagonist, has more of a conscience than the average felon, but needs money and agrees to go along with it. Things start out alright for them when they take the truck to an abandoned warehouse where they plan to hide the money and then retrieve it after they pretend their truck was attacked. At some point, they decide that they need to blow up the truck in order to hide the evidence, but things still look like they might go off without any major hitches. However: [[spoiler: it turns out that a homeless man is living in the warehouse. When the homeless man sees them, Baines, the trigger-happy member of the heist team, shoots him, shocking Tyler as well as angering Dobbs, another member of the team who has to be held back from fighting Baines. When Tyler tries to carry the man to an ambulance, Cochrane finishes off the homeless man. From there, Ty [[HeelFaceTurn turns on them]] and sounds an alarm that draws police officer Jake Eckehart to the warehouse. Baines shoots Jake, seriously wounding him. Then, in order to force Ty to cooperate with them, Mike has Quinn kidnap his brother Jimmy—[[DontSplitUsUp the very person he participated in this job for]]. Meanwhile, Dobbs, after struggling with his conscience, decides he can't handle it anymore and says he wants out, to which the other criminals respond by murdering him. In the end, Mike tries to run his own godson over with an armored truck.]]

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:Mike Cochrane, to the max, as observed by Tyler throughout the course of the plan going awry. Finding the opportunity to pull a $42 million heist irresistible to the point he had to pull Tyler in to get the necessary numbers for it was the first sign to Ty that things were going too far. Not abandoning ship (or letting Ty do so) once Baines broke their "nobody gets hurt" promise let Ty know that he couldn't trust Mike. From there, Mike would repeatedly hatch every plan in the book to try to get out with the money anyway as well as kill Ty and [[MauveShirt deputy Jake Echkehart]] [[HeKnowsTooMuch to keep him from talking]]. This winds up forcing Palmer to kill first Dobbs, then himself, because of their consciences, and gets Quinn and Baines killed when Tyler decides to [[MoneyToBurn blow up the the money in his car]] and they get caught in the blast. Finally, the fiasco ends…with Mike's soul so far gone that even with all the money burned, he tries to viciously run over and kill his own godson with armored truck rather than admit this whole thing went a million degrees wrong.]]

'''''Armored''''' is a 2009 thriller/crime film.

** SpannerInTheWorks: What Ty becomes after this.

* BestFriendsInLaw: Baines is Cochrane's brother-in-law.

* FatalFlaw: [[spoiler:Cochran's {{greed}} and Baines' {{trigger happ|y}}iness, which will cause them to kill anyone who [[HeKnowsTooMuch knows too much]]. This juxtaposed with Tyler's resolve to NeverHurtAnInnocent is a bad combination.]]

* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: The protagonist quickly goes from accomplice to SpannerInTheWorks when the thieves' hideout is found to be not as secluded as they thought and his fried tries to solve the problem by killing the witness, breaking the head organizer's deal with the protagonist that there would be no casualties.

* {{Irony}}: Baines and Cochran kill the homeless man after he's already been restrained, then try to salvage the plan at all costs after that, because they doesn't want to walk away empty-handed and possibly end up in jail. [[spoiler:The result of their actions leaves the entire team except Tyler dead.]]

* WhyWontYouJustShootHim: Baines averts this [[TriggerHappy with pleasure]]. In Tyler's [[spoiler:and Dobbs']] eyes he actually ''in''verts it.

* DieHardOnAnX: It's ''Die Hard'' in an armored truck.

* FatalFlaw: [[spoiler:Cochran's {{greed}} and Baines' {{trigger happ|y}}iness, which will cause them to kill anyone who [[HeKnowsTooMuch knows too much]]. This juxtaposed with [[GuiltRiddenAccomplice Tyler's conscience]] on the same team is a bad combination.]]

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:Mike Cochrane, to the max. His FatalFlaw is his {{greed}}, as observed by Tyler throughout the course of the plan going awry. Finding the opportunity to pull a $42 million heist irresistible to the point he had to pull Tyler in to get the necessary numbers for it was the first sign to Ty that things were going too far. Not abandoning ship (or letting Ty do so) once Baines broke their "nobody gets hurt" promise let Ty know that he couldn't trust Mike. From there, Mike would repeatedly hatch every plan in the book to try to get out with the money anyway as well as kill Ty and Jake Eckehart[[note]]a [[MauveShirt local sheriff's deputy]] who answered Ty's distress call only to also get shot by Baines[[/note]] [[HeKnowsTooMuch to keep him from talking]]. This winds up forcing Palmer to kill first Dobbs, then himself, because of their consciences, and gets Quinn and Baines killed when Tyler decides to [[MoneyToBurn blow up the the money in his car]] and they get caught in the blast. Finally, the fiasco ends…with Mike's soul so far gone that even with all the money burned, he tries to viciously run over and kill his own godson with armored truck rather than admit this whole thing went a million degrees wrong.]]

* PlethoraOfMistakes: This movie is of the GuiltRiddenAccomplice flavor.

* FatalFlaw: Two for the heist team. [[spoiler:Cochran's {{greed}} and Baines' {{trigger happ|y}}iness.]]

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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:Mike Cochrane, to the max. His FatalFlaw is his {{greed}}, as observed by Tyler throughout the course of the plan going awry. Finding the opportunity to pull a $42 million heist irresistible to the point he had to pull Tyler in to get the necessary numbers for it was the first sign to Ty that things were going too far. Not abandoning ship (or letting Ty do so) once Baines broke their "nobody gets hurt" promise let Ty know that he couldn't trust Mike. From there, Mike would repeatedly hatch every plan in the book to try to get out with the money anyway as well as kill Ty and Jake Eckehart[[note]]a MauveShirt cop who answered Ty's distress call only to also get shot by Baines[[/note]] [[HeKnowsTooMuch to keep him from talking]]. This winds up forcing Palmer to kill first Dobbs, then himself, because of their consciences, and gets Quinn and Baines killed when Tyler decides to [[MoneyToBurn blow up the the money in his car]] and they get caught in the blast. Finally, the fiasco ends…with Mike's soul so far gone that even with all the money burned, he tries to viciously run over and kill his own godson with armored truck rather than admit this whole thing went a million degrees wrong.]]

''Armored'' is a 2009 thriller/crime film.

Ty Hacket is a security guard who works for an armored transport company. He's left to raise his younger brother by himself after his parents died, but struggles to keep their family together as it looks like he can't keep the house due to lack of payments. His colleagues, led by his godfather and family friend Mike Cochrane, approach him for an inside job to rob their own company. Ty initially refuses until he is reassured that no one will get hurt in the theft. The guards proceed with the plan until things take a turn for the worse as they're forced to shoot an unfortunate witness. Ty subsequently barricades himself inside the truck and tries to wait for backup while his colleagues are determined to steal the money and kill him.

* CrimeAfterCrime: The whole movie is one long use of this trope. The main plot starts off with a plan by a group of six or so armored truck drivers to steal the money they're transporting. The protagonist has more of a conscience than the average felon, but needs money and agrees to go along with it. Things start out alright for them when they take the truck to an abandoned warehouse where they plan to hide the money and then retrieve it after they pretend their truck was attacked. At some point, they decide that they need to blow up the truck in order to hide the evidence, but things still look like they might go off without any major hitches. However: [[spoiler: it turns out that a homeless man is living in the warehouse. When the homeless man sees them, the trigger-happy member of the heist team shoots him. When the protagonist suggests calling an ambulance, the team's leader finishes off the homeless man. Then, the protagonist [[HeelFaceTurn turns on them]] and sounds an alarm that draws a police officer to the warehouse. The trigger-happy guy shoots the cop, seriously wounding him. Then, in order to force the protagonist to cooperate with them, the crooks kidnap a member of his family. Meanwhile, another member of the team decides he can't handle it anymore and says he wants out, to which the other criminals respond by murdering him. In the end, the gang's leader tries to run over the protagonist with an armored truck.]]

* DontSplitUsUp: This is the primary motivation for Ty to join his colleagues in robbing their own armored transport company. After [[ParentalAbandonment his parents died]] he was [[PromotionToParent left alone to raise his younger brother]], but is struggling to make ends meet. He's in danger of losing their childhood home due to unpaid bills, and a social worker pays a visit to inform him that his brother will be placed in foster care if he can't provide for him, leading to this response.

* GuiltRiddenAccomplice: The protagonist quickly goes from accomplice to SpannerInTheWorks when the theives' hideout is found to be not as secluded as they thought and his fried tries to solve the problem by killing the witness, breaking the head organizer's deal with the protagonist that there would be no casualties.