Directed by: Christian Gudegast
Starring: Gerard Butler, O'Shea Jackson Jr.
The original Den of Thieves (2018) was a crime thriller with several twists and a dynamic character in Nick O'Brien (Butler), the cheerfully corrupt cop on the trail of bank robbers looking to rob the Federal Reserve in Los Angeles. Nick wants to bust the thieves and counts on informant Donnie Wilson (Jackson Jr) to assist him. It turns out after a Heat-like shootout that Donnie was the mastermind behind the crime and escapes scot-free to England where he's planning his next heist.
As Den of Thieves 2 opens, Big Nick is still salty about Donnie getting the best of him and tracks him down following footage of a heist somewhere in Europe. Nick doesn't want to bust Donnie, though, but instead wants him to take him along on his next job so Nick can rake in enough of the fortune to retire on. Donnie is awfully trusting. A cop he burned years ago in LA finds him and wants to join him in thievery, and Donnie doesn't suspect a plot is afoot? Donnie doesn't strike me as someone so willfully blind to Nick's intentions, especially since he's good at accents and pretending to be a French businessman to infiltrate the Diamond Center which is where he and Pantera (a group of criminals) will be targeting.
I won't go into specifics, except to say that the heist itself is Donnie and Nick climbing up and down ropes and scuttling around in the darkness to break into safety deposit boxes. It's the 2020's. Haven't they heard of cyber theft? It's a lot easier, so I'm told. You can just sit at a computer and steal untold fortunes. If this doesn't happen, then why do we hear so often about data breaches from major corporations who have no idea how their firewalls were breached.
Den of Thieves 2 is a bloated two hours, twenty five minutes, similar to the first one, but the majority of the movie is killing time until we wait for the twist which isn't really a big one as far as Big Reveals go.
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