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‘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
Gerard Butler's blasted cop reunites with O'Shea Jackson Jr.'s mastermind thief in a movie that does a decent impersonation of a high-end crime film.
Having successfully robbed the Federal Reserve by stealing a mountain of about-to-be-shredded bills (so no one would know they were missing), Donnie escaped to Antwerp, which is where he now hooks up with Jovanna (Evin Ahmad), who leads a team of thieves known as the Panthers. In Nice, Donnie and Jovanna, posing as wealthy jewel connoisseurs, launch a plan to fence the stolen gems at the World Diamond Center, a public fortress — sort of like a Swiss bank for precious stones — that’s patrolled like a castle, with a phalanx of security guards and 137 surveillance cameras. Butler has been a star for 20 years now, and in that time he has fought an array of political terrorists (in the “…Has Fallen” films) and faced off against forces as disparate as ecological disaster (“Greenland”), Russian kidnappers (“Hunter Killer”), and anti-colonial guerrillas (“Plane”).
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