Den of Thieves
2018
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Director: Christian Gudegast
Cast: Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, O'Shea Jackson Jr., 50 Cent, Meadow Williams, Jordan Bridges, Max Holloway, Mo McRae, Evan Jones, Cooper Andrews
While a gang of elite bank robbers are planning an audacious heist on the Federal Reserve Bank, they engage in a game of cat and mouse with the LASD Major Crimes Unit. Christian Gudegast's directorial debut is an entertaining but derivative and testosterone-fuelled action drama, a second rate Heat, if you will. Gerard Butler and Pablo Schreiber take over from Al Pacino and Robert De Niro as two skilled and strong-willed men on the opposite sides of the law, but Gudegast clearly doesn't have the talent or ambition of Michael Mann. Followed by Den of Thieves 2: Pantera.
