Den of Thieves [2018] Full HD Free
Testosterone drips off Christian Gudegast's cops-and-robbers
thriller that has all the phony authenticity of its Atlanta locations
pretending to be Los Angeles. Co-stars Gerard Butler and Pablo Schreiber,
playing alpha dogs on opposite sides of the law, seem to be competing for which
of them can be the most bulked-up, macho badass onscreen. The loser is the
audience for Den
of Thieves, an over-the-top crime saga mainly indicating that its
writer-director has seen Michael Mann's Heat too many
times.
The plot thickens ... and thickens
... and thickens. Gudegast is clearly an avid student of heist pictures,
and he layers this one with a lot of spectacular complications even while he
muddles the average viewer’s potential rooting interest. As charismatic as
Schreiber’s gangleader and the criminal lieutenant played by Curtis “50 Cent”
Jackson can be (Gudegast engineers a scene involving Jackson’s character’s
daughter going on a prom date for a comic-relief “dad gives the date a talking
to” scene), they’re still guys who blew away almost a dozen cops in the opening
scene, so the suspense when they’re finally inside the Fed building and almost
pulling things off is potentially slightly compromised. As for Butler’s Nick,
yeah, he’s consistently asking for a spanking to say the least. But where
Gudegast really shows his hand, if you’re in the mood to stay ahead of this
movie, is in the casting. There’s one character, played by an actor of
star-quality charisma, who keeps getting put off to the side in the story, and
you have to wonder why. Once you’ve decided why, you can figure out at least
one of the twists. And of course, the actor, who I won’t name, is winning
enough that you suddenly understand exactly where your rooting interest was
supposed to have been all along.
Then
something grippingly odd happens. There’s a charged sequence set at a Japanese
hibachi restaurant, where O’Brien saunters in and makes a deliberate spectacle
of himself in front of Merrimen and his crew. He targets Donnie, the driver he
now knows, revealing that the two have had contact with each other. It’s a
badass scene, very entertaining on its own terms, but what, exactly, is the
strategy O’Brien is employing? The movie has established that Merriman, the
gang leader, is a merciless cutthroat, so when Donnie is revealed to know this
haughty cop, you’d think that would KO him as a driver; you’d think he might
end up in a ditch somewhere. But no: Merriman questions him, and is apparently
reassured by Donnie’s protests that he got captured, and strong-armed, by
O’Brien but told him nothing.
Like
the first movie, which was inspired by a real life attempt to rob the Federal
Reserve in Los Angeles, Den of Thieves 2 will
be based on a true event - in this case the Antwerp diamond exchange heist
of 2003 - with the two main surviving characters at the center of the story:
original mastermind Donnie (Jackson) will be on the run with the former Pink
Panther mafia after a diamond heist goes wrong, hunted by Interpol and Nick
O'Brien (Butler), who's left his L.A. life and family troubles behind for
Europe. The film will cover a bevy of European locales, from London (where the
first film ended) to Belgium, Marseilles, the Cote d'Azur, and
Montenegro, bringing with it an overall lighter tone to the gritty
original.
This is
the kind of scarcely plausible twist that a movie like “Den of Thieves” never
fully recovers from. It “plays,” yet it defies everything the film has been telling
us. And just as O’Brien intentionally tips his hand, so does the lead criminal,
leaking news of a set-up heist so that O’Brien and his crew will be there in
the parking lot, right next to the action yet, in a larger sense, thrown off
the trail. It parses, sort of, in some abstract way, but the logic is fuzzy,
and so, from that point on, is the movie’s suspense.
There could well be a run on Southern California banks as a result
of the onscreen graphics informing us that a bank robbery occurs in Los Angeles
every 48 minutes and that the city is the "bank robbery capital of the
world." One might expect that the opening sequence would depict such a
robbery, but instead it involves a heist of an armored truck by a very
well-armed gang of thieves by its leader Ray Merriman (Schreiber) and cohorts
including Enson (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) and Bosco (Evan Jones).
Despite the crooks' military precision, there are fatalities on both sides.
We
quite enjoyed the recent Den
Of Thieves, a bit of a Heat-lite mix of crime and action, starring
Gerard Butler. It may not have been a huge critical smash, but it’s done decent
business at the box office, earning around $60m worldwide off a $30m budget.
Still,
it’s something of a surprise that that’s enough cash to warrant a sequel.
However, a sequel is what we’re getting. Den
Of Thieves 2 is in the works, with the main cast and crew set
to return. That includes director Christian Gudegast, along with 50 Cent and
more than likely O’Shea Jackson Jr.
Gudegast
is penning the screenplay, with the action on the streets of Europe.
No
release date has thus far been announced for the new movie, but we’ll keep you
posted.
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