‘Den of Thieves 2: Pantera’ Review: Gerard Butler, the King of the January Box Office, Elevates His Blasted-Cop-Meets-Heist Movie Into a Franchise
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variety.comOwen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic As a movie star, Gerard Butler owns January the way Will Smith once owned Memorial Day and the “Meg” films own August.
That Butler’s B-movie thrillers now hold sway over the frozen, box-office-lite oblivion of the early weeks of the year may seem a Pyrrhic victory, but at least he’s the king of something.
And Butler’s brusque, beady-eyed, scowling-hulk charisma has aged well. A quick-fire actor in a caveman’s body, he has the ability to lift a piece of pulp so it almost seems like a real movie.
For much of its two-hour-and-24-minute running time, “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera,” the sequel to Butler‘s cops-vs.-crooks heist thriller from 2018, does a satisfying impersonation of a high-end crime film.
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