“Den of Thieves” is a criminal and action movie released in 2018. The film is directed by Christian Gudegast, co-starring Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, O’Shea Jackson Jr. and others.
“Den of Thieves” tells the story of Nick (Gerard Butler) of the Los Angeles Police Department leading other police officers to detect a serial robbery and fight with criminal groups.
To be honest, the robbery is relatively old-fashioned, but “Den of Thieves” has a few novelties.
First of all, the role selection is relatively good, and several roles have the temperament of tough guys.
There are many scenes of gunfighting in the film, and it is obviously different from the plot of the same type of film that has been negotiated.
Secondly, “Den of Thieves” did not rob small banks or money-carrying trucks like other films, but instead focused on the largest Los Angeles Federal Reserve Bank in Los Angeles.
Moreover, the robbers are not robbery, they stole old banknotes that should have been scrapped in the bank.
In this way, they have a wealth of 30 million that is out of system supervision.
This is a very novel and safe way of robbery, it has not appeared in previous movies of the type of robbery.
And “Den of Thieves” also appeared in the slamming routine.
The robbers robbed an ordinary small bank deliberately aroused the attention of the police, and then fled through the sewer under the bank.
They sneaked into the Federal Reserve Bank by stealing information and the previously looted money transport truck, and stole the unspent banknotes in the bank.
But it is obvious that the witty police discovered all this and started a rush with the criminals.
The police were killed and injured, and the main members of the robbery gang were killed, but two escaped without feeling.
But the biggest highlight of “Den of Thieves” is the escaped man.
As a bartender, he inquired about news from all walks of life in the bar.
After a few glasses of wine, both the police and the bank clerk are willing to talk more.
Especially with a few more beautiful women to accompany him, and he used all the information he collected during his work as a bartender to obtain the conditions for committing the crime.
As for the people killed by the police, he was just hired to work.
And he cleverly found an arrogant leader, hiding himself behind the scenes.
In the end, the police killed those people but couldn’t find the money.
But he ran away secretly and became a bartender again to find out the secrets of the diamond company.
On the whole, the plot of the movie is smooth, and the hidden lines behind it are also relatively concealed. The reversal of the ending is surprising.
But the shortcomings of “Den of Thieves” are also obvious, let me talk about it below:
The first is that the policeman as the protagonist encountered an emotional crisis, and his wife discovered the record of his derailment.
And a large part of the film shows scenes where he quarreled with his wife and promised with his daughter.
But at the end of “Den of Thieves” the two did not reconcile, and there was no more plot, then this emotional scene is very confusing and meaningless.
The second is the scene of the police and bandits fighting each other. A classic scene appeared here, in which a heavy machine gun shot through a row of cars.
But there are two problems with this classic scene. First, the personnel on the car is a big loophole.
Although the police told the people in the car to lie down as much as possible, and a small number of people fled.
But after the gunshots appeared, those cars were silent, without yelling in panic, which was unrealistic.
Secondly, the police generally do not choose scenes with many people to fight with criminals.
But the police in “Den of Thieves” chose this traffic jam and drove with the criminals. The cars were broken, but there were no casualties. It was a bit fake.
But the biggest problem with the film is not the above points, but what happened after the criminals sneaked into the Federal Reserve.
The criminal hid in the money and followed the money-carrying truck into the savings office, but when he came out, he pretended to be a takeaway and went out from the front door.
The security guard in this key position let the criminal off knowing that the other party lacked entry registration.
The security not only violated the rules, but also appeared stupid.
The previous film said how safe this savings house is, but it turned out to be a problem and ignored it. The success of the crime actually depends on luck. This
The script of “Den of Thieves” is really not rigorous enough.
Overall, “Den of Thieves” is a mixed movie.
If you want to watch an exciting gun battle, you can watch this video.
If you like to watch a movie with rigorous logic, forget it. The logic of “Den of Thieves” is really unlikable.
