“This Scene’s Already Preposterous”: Sylvester Stallone Action Movie With Rare 0% RT Has VFX Artists Laughing At Its Absurdity

Sylvester Stallone has appeared in many projects, maintaining a diverse and genre-spanning catalog throughout his career. After portraying a heavyweight boxer in the 1976 drama Rocky, which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay, Stallone famously returned for numerous sequels and the first two Creed movies. He is also known for making intense action blockbusters, including Cliffhanger and the Rambo and The Expendables franchises. Recently, he has been playing Dwight Manfredi in the Taylor Sheridan streaming series Tulsa King.

Despite many strong performances and commercially successful releases over the years, Stallone has also been a part of some underwhelming movies. The comedies Rhinestone and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot have garnered largely unfavorable reviews, while the films Driven and D-Tox disappointed at the box office. Additionally, Stallone’s Escape Plan sequels and Expend4bles failed to resonate with wide audiences, and his 2025 movie Alarum currently holds a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.

VFX Artists React To Armor

The Action Movie Was Panned By Critics

Sylvester Stallone Armor standing on a bridge holding a gun

Among Stallone’s least favorably-received works is Armor, which premiered back in 2024. The heist action movie follows security guards on an armored truck, who unexpectedly face Rook (Stallone) and other criminals seeking to rob their vehicle. Along with Stallone, the cast includes Josh Wiggins, Dash Mihok, Blake Shields, and Jason Patric of The Lost Boys and Sleepers. Upon release, Armor amᴀssed negative audience reactions and earned another RT Tomatometer score of 0%, while its Popcornmeter stands at only 26%.

During their latest “VFX Artists React to Bad and Great CGi” video, Corridor Crew looked at sequences from Armor and laughed at the absurdity. Initially, they commented on a scene where Rook and others were firing guns on a bridge, revealing that “they’re not even tracked.“ Sam Gorski then called it “preposterous,” and explained how effects were added to the ends of their firearms. Read his comments below:

There’s a crazy thing you might not notice. They’re taking the suppressor at the end of the gun and putting, like, a motion blur and wiggle on it each time they shoot.

During a sequence that saw the truck filling with water, Corridor Crew noted that a “dry for wet” technique was used, but they were perplexed by how the water looked. Read some of their comments below:

Wren Weichman: I find the water to be really interesting here because it simultaneously seems really well done and awful at the same time.

Niko Pueringer: It’s like they got some decent fluid sims from somebody. They just motion tracked and it’s masked correctly. It doesn’t look very real at all, but like, the movement is good.

Our Take On The Armor VFX

The Shoddy Effects Are Noticeable

Sylvester Stallone as a security guard and armored truck driver aiming his pistol while being attacked at a bridge in Armored

Much of the poor VFX in Armor stands out even more once Corridor Crew highlights them. The gunfire is noticeable because of how their projectiles are launched and how the smoke lingers around them and, when paying closer attention to that scene, the movement of Sylvester Stallone and others’ guns is clear. A possible low budget may account for the quality of Armor’s effects, but many of them, notably the water sequence, are easy to spot and that could have impacted how audiences responded to the movie.

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