“Armed Response” is a dull film that is not sure exactly what it wants to be. It dabbles in the action, sci-fi and horror genres. There is nothing particularly original on offer here as it felt like the filmmakers cobbled together concepts from “Resident Evil”, “Eagle Eye”, “Ghost Ship” and “The Outpost”.

Something mysterious happens at a secret government facility, which serves as a prison with an advanced lie detector. A special team is dispatched to investigate. However, they soon find themselves turning on one another as they try to uncover the secrets of the facility and encounter strange and unsettling sights.

Wesley Snipes (“Blade”, “New Jack City”) stars as Isaac, the leader of the team. Snipes is a decent actor but he’s given an unengaging script to work with and he looks seriously bored. It’s a real shame because he could have helped the film a lot. The other actors give really bland performances and as soon as I finished watching the movie, I can’t remember anything about most of the characters. Films like this really need you to get invested in the characters because you are stuck with so few of them for such a long period of time.

If you have seen the other movies that I mentioned, you will then probably be able to vaguely imagine what this film is like. “Armed Response” is disappointing and it gets unnecessarily complex. The action sequences are actually okay but the rest of the movie is so uneventful that you just won’t care when the shooting starts. It’s also not nice to see Snipes waste his time with rubbish like this. It’s not quite as bad as some of the recent Steven Seagal films such as “General Commander” but this is the type of film that I could easily see Seagal in.