‘Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera’ Review: Gerard Butler Matches Wits Again With O’Shea Jackson In Familiar But Entertaining Euro Heist Action Flick
deadline.comIn 2018, Den Of Thieves delivered the goods (as a kind of junior version of Michael Mann’s classic Heat, which matched De Niro and Pacino) and was a ballsy attempt to rob the unrobbable Los Angeles Federal Reserve.
It did modest but respectable business globally considering its limited ambitions, and that apparently was just enough to justify a sequel.
In Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera, Gerard Butler, O’Shea Jackson and company head to Europe for another brazen robbery, this time at the top-security World Diamond Center in Nice, where the cop and the crook join forces to penetrate a thief-proof vault full of valuable deposit boxes with millions of dollars of jewels including an uber-desirable pink diamond stolen from the Mafia who wants it back.
It’s complicated. Ditching the L.A. locations of the first (actually doubled by Atlanta), this turns into a lush European and more international adventure that picks up where the first film left off, when the duplicitous Donnie (Jackson) has outsmarted cop Nick (Butler) during the Federal Reserve robbery, and now a defeated Nick just wants revenge and the money he swears Donnie has.
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