Fishbourne and Short Together in ‘Armored’
On January 25th, 2008
Laurence Fishbourne and Columbus Short star together in “Armored.†Jan Reno and Milo Ventimiglia also star in the film about a rookie truck driver (Short) who gets persuade by Matt Dillion to steal $10 million dollars but backs out and goes on the run because Dillion wants to kill the rookie for fear he will talk to the authorities. The film is shooting in Los Angeles.
It’s being directed by Nimród Antal which is very exciting! Kontroll was such an excellent film, and I think Vacancy was underappreciated.
I am familiar with “Vacancy,” which was released last year. It looked very scary. “Kontroll” is new to me, but looks like it’s an interesting film, comedy and thriller.
Perhaps with Fishbourne, Antal will get recognized more and appreciated more.
Vacancy was pretty scary. I thought the use of light and dark to create suspense was fairly clever, and the updating of the Psycho archetype was a nice touch. Also the ending was more in the Hitchcock vein…it’s resolved but not in the traditional Hollywood ending sense. It’s uncertain, precarious.
The comedy in Kontroll is fairly dark, and overall it’s a quite visceral film. Again, light and dark/shadow are used to great effect. The fact that the film never leaves the Budapest subway system lends the entire affair a kind of urban fairytale element.
It would be nice for Antal to carve a path for himself in Hollywood.
Thanks for the detail description of the two films by Antal. Yes, it looks like Antal will carve a path for himself in Hollywood.