With its loose-cannon cops, ice-cold crooks and urban Los Angeles sprawl, “Den of Thieves” wants to be “Heat” very, very badly — and it comes a lot closer than you expect. Director Christian Gudegast lacks the operatic, mid-’90s freedom than Michael Mann had, not to mention Mann’s peerless technique and moral complexity, but for a movie so conspicuously wearing its chief influence on its sleeve, the first-timer employs an appealing, restless energy that gives his homage its own life on screen. Meanwhile, Pablo Schreiber and O’Shea Jackson Jr. quietly command the screen opposite a suitably bloated, snarling Gerard Butler in...
- 1/18/2018
- by Todd Gilchrist
- The Wrap
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