Den of Thieves Reviews

Movie Reviews

• the story isn't as clever as it would like to be, and would have been stronger if it spent more time on heist mechanics and less on escalating tension between the good bad guys and the bad good guys, but Gudegast's direction is mostly clean and clear

  by Matthew Lickona [San Diego Reader ]

• the movie is clever enough, until it cheats. It tries to fill in its characters, until reducing them to plot devices...why there are so many Michael Mann imitators but so few who are able to burn his influence into something memorable

  by Owen Gleiberman [Variety ]

• it's a sidewinding but often suprisingly effective LA crime thriller. It's also saddled with the wrong leading man

  by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune ]

• Gudegast's twisty, turny tale of heists and homies is an action-packed romp with a good sense of humor and self-awareness

  by Katie Walsh [Los Angeles Times ]

• Butler's performance is both one of the Scottish actor's most entertaining and most obnoxious [in this movie]

  Review rate : B- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky [AV Club ]

• a Los Angeles heist thriller that will remind you of better movies, this is poor-man's action cinema with zero characterization... Den of Thieves spends its overly long runtime juggling action tropes but fails to establish a tone of its own

  by Zachary Shevich [Time Out New York ]

• "Den of Thieves" isn't a masterpiece by any means, but it's fun, exciting and hard-boiled, and the actors are doing solid work

  by Randy Cordova [Arizona Republic ]

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