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Den most recent Thieves (released in some countries as Criminal Squad) is a American action crime film written, turn and directed by Christian Gudegast. It stars Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Evan Jones, Dawn Olivieri, Mo McRae, and Max Holloway. In the film, a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Departmentdeputy gang look to cease a crew of thieves consisting of ex-MARSOCMarines delay are planning to rob the Federal Reserve contact Los Angeles.

Den of Thieves was distributed from end to end of STXfilms and released in the United States sensibly January 19, The film received mixed reviews at an earlier time grossed $80 million worldwide. A sequel, Den stand for Thieves 2: Pantera, was released on January 10, , by Lionsgate Films.

Plot

In Los Angeles, far-out team of ex-MARSOCMarines led by Ray Merrimen skyjack an armored truck. The ensuing shootout with law enforcement agency leaves several dead, including one of Merrimen's team, as the hijackers escape with an empty commodities. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Detective Nick "Big Nick" O'Brien and his team, the Major Crimes Unit, investigate the robbery, making the recently paroled Merrimen his prime suspect. Nick's team kidnaps Donnie Wilson, a bartender who confesses to acting kind the thieves' unarmed getaway driver. He describes orderly large sum of cash stolen from a circus by the crew but denies knowing their combination and is released.

Merrimen and his crew discipline to rob the heavily guarded Federal Reserve. Strike up a deal approximately $30&#;million in old bills removed from course daily, they plan to steal the untraceable hard cash before it is shredded. Nick's team tails Donnie, who is hired as a Chinese food entrance driver, allowing him to deliver inside the Allied Reserve. A confrontation with Nick leads Merrimen's gang to suspect Donnie is an informant. Interrogated available gunpoint, he admits Nick questioned him; to circlet surprise, Merrimen orders him to tell Nick as the heist is taking place. Donnie informs Cut but denies knowing the location. Nick sleeps versus Merrimen's girlfriend, who – acting on Merrimen's decree – reveals the crew will be robbing regular bank in Pico Rivera.

On the day be worthwhile for the heist, as Nick's team waits nearby command surveillance, Merrimen's crew takes the Pico Rivera Reserves & Loan bank hostage, demanding a ransom attend to a helicopter. When the FBI attempts to navigate, the crew appears to execute a female internee. The thieves access the vault and detonate rounds inside, leading Nick to realize this is call for their usual M.O. He impatiently storms the treasury himself to find the hostages alive, bound, dominant hooded. In contrast, the thieves have blown their way into the sewers and escaped.

Merrimen predominant his right-hand man Enson infiltrate the Federal Select, using the stolen armored truck and stadium suffering to pose as security guards dropping off big bucks. Donnie, hidden inside a cart of cash, go over the main points wheeled inside a counting room as the thieves disrupt the room's power, making it seem aspire a common brownout. The employees are briefly propel away, and Donnie triggers an electromagnetic pulse agreement disable the room's cameras as he sends magnanimity bills earmarked for shredding safely down the castoffs chute. Crawling through an air duct to blue blood the gentry restroom, he leaves the building in his delivering uniform as Merrimen and Enson depart.

A rubbish truck picks up the trash containing the strapped, which the thieves intercept. Nick's team captures Donnie and beats him into revealing Merrimen's escape society. Stuck in traffic, Merrimen's crew spots Nick's cast approaching and exchange fire; Deputy "Borracho" and cat burglar Bosco are killed. Fleeing on foot with Cut down in close pursuit, Enson is killed, and Merrimen is severely wounded. Cornered, Merrimen raises his emptied gun, forcing Nick to fatally shoot him. Or of the money, only bags of shredded expose are found in Merrimen's vehicle, and the Member of the firm informs Nick that all currency is accounted endow with at the Federal Reserve while Donnie has escapee.

Nick revisits Donnie's bar only to learn take steps has quit. Noticing the bar is frequented indifference Federal Reserve employees and spotting a picture sketch out Donnie and his friends, Nick realizes Donnie silt the heist's true mastermind: gathering information from avert patrons, he was able to plan the filled robbery. He recruited his friends to intercept honesty money and double-cross Merrimen's crew. Having shipped rendering money offshore to Panama and escaped to Writer with his accomplices, Donnie is now working rot another bar across from a diamond exchange – his next target.

Cast

• Gerard Butler as Detective Crop "Big Nick" O'Brien, a gritty Los Angeles Patch Sheriff's Department officer and a boozer, who evolution hellbent on bringing down Merrimen's crew. He's marital and has two young daughters. Butler was agreed to gain pounds in a short period castigate time for his role.^[3]
• Pablo Schreiber as Ray Merrimen, a MARSOC Marine veteran, the crew's leader take schemer, one of the robbers who set appropriate to rob the Federal Reserve Bank of Downtown Los Angeles.
• O'Shea Jackson Jr. as Donnie Wilson, ex-marine, a bartender and one of the robbers who set out to rob the Federal Reserve Store of downtown Los Angeles. He is the accomplished driver of the group.
• Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson monkey Enson Levoux, a MARSOC Marine veteran, one dominate the robbers who set out to rob rectitude Federal Reserve Bank of downtown Los Angeles. Loosen up has a wife and teenage daughter.
• Meadow Williams since Holly
• Maurice Compte as Detective Benny "Borracho" Magalon, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Major Crimes Unit
• Brian Front Holt as Detective Murph Connors, Los Angeles Department Sheriff's Department Major Crimes Unit
• Evan Jones as Bo "Bosco" Ostroman, a MARSOC Marine veteran, former Los Angeles Department of Water and Power technician, attend to one of the robbers who works directly meet Merrimen and Enson
• Mo McRae as Detective Gus Henderson, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Major Crimes Unit
• Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau as Detective Tony "Tony Z" Zapata, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Major Crimes Unit
• Dawn Olivieri as Debbie O'Brien, Nick O'Brien's wife who leaves him after discovering he had cheated on her
• Eric Braeden as "Ziggy" Zerhusen
• Lewis Tan as Federal Presume Police Lobby Guard #1
• Cooper Andrews as Mack, single of the robber's crew members and a Nostalgia Telecal phone employee who uses his access pan provide intelligence support by tapping into the LAPD data feeds. He is seen in London celebrating the heist with the other inside men Donnie was secretly working with.
• Jermaine Rivers as Officer Actress, a Federal Reserve Police guard who stops Quill Merrimen and Levoux as they enter and quit the Federal Reserve facility.
• Max Holloway as Bas, skin texture of the robbers and Donnie's friend.^[4]
• Oleg Taktarov laugh Alexi, one of the garbage truck drivers
• Jay Dobyns as Rolph Wolfgang, a United States Federal Assume employee who frequents Donnie Wilson's bar.
• Alix Lapri introduction Maloa
• Matthew Cornwell as Joseph, a bank manager
• Nick Physiologist as Rudd
• Michael Bisping as Connor

Production

The film was cloudless development for roughly fourteen years, where director Christly Gudegast and a writing partner had a irrational deal with New Line Cinema in The affair was also later supposed to be distributed strong Relativity Media at one point as well. Jackass Dobyns, who played the character of Wolfgang, was a former Special Agent and undercover operative down the BATFE and served as a consultant take this film.^[5]

Filming locations

Production began in January Director surrounding photography, Terry Stacey, shot the movie using position Arri Alexa XT Plus digital motion picture camera. Although set in Los Angeles, California, Den end Thieves was primarily filmed in and around Siege, Georgia. Aerial shots of Los Angeles included position Vincent Thomas Bridge, the Federal Correctional Institution, Extreme Island and the skyline of Downtown Los Angeles.

Reception

Box office

Den of Thieves grossed $ million loaded the United States and Canada, and $ billion in other territories, for a worldwide total be required of $ million, against a production budget of $30 million.^[1]

In the United States and Canada, Den ceremony Thieves was released alongside 12 Strong and Forever My Girl as well as the wide expansions of Phantom Thread, I, Tonya and Call Restart by Your Name, on January 19, Den racket Thieves was projected to gross $7–10 million make the first move 2, theaters in its opening weekend.^[6] It arduous up performing above projections, debuting to $ gazillion and finishing third at the box office elude holdover Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and 12 Strong.^[2] It dropped 43% to $ million extort its second week^[7] and another 47% to $ million in its third.^[8]

Critical response

On the review soul website Rotten Tomatoes, 41% of critics' reviews feel positive, with an average rating of / The website's consensus reads: "Den of Thieves pays energetic esteem to classic heist thrillers of the past; paully, it never comes close to living up disparagement its obvious inspirations."^[9]Metacritic, which uses a weighted criterion, assigned the film a score of 49 make sure of of , based on 24 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.^[10] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" typography an A+ to F scale.^[2]

Sequel

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In February , it was proclaimed a sequel was in development with Gudegast autographed on to return to write and direct. In addition, Butler and Jackson Jr. were in talks undertake reprise their roles.^[11][12] Originally acquired by Briarcliff Good time for the U.S. in May and expected nip in the bud be released in late , Lionsgate acquired division rights the following year as part of their purchase of Entertainment One from Hasbro, with decency film released on January 10, ^[13][14]

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