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In a period enthralled by Tom Cruise’s stunts, Armoured Car offers a curious reminder that, despite the post-revolutionary moaning, action escapades were cultivated in Czech cinema in the early days. In this case, however, this is true only if we allow ourselves to give the local industry credit for the filmmakers and other creators who identified as Germans. On the other hand, however, we have to admit that whereas Cruise, Jackie Chan, Belmondo and other later stars have been able to work dramaturgically with viewers’ amazement elicited by grandiose physical feats, here the bombastic acrobatic performances of the lead actor, blown up to superhuman proportions by movie magic, are rather unexpected eruptions of energy in a mostly sedate pulp story, though it’s a story that is likably kept afloat by campy exaggeration aimed at dime-a-dozen clichés.
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