Den of Thieves

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Den of Thieves

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Released Jan 19, 2018

2h 20m

Crime

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

Action

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Nick O'Brien is the hard-drinking leader of the Regulators, an elite unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Ray Merrimen is the recently paroled leader of the Outlaws, a gang of ex-military men who use their expertise and tactical skills to evade the law. O'Brien, Merrimen and their crews soon find themselves on a direct collision course as the criminals hatch an elaborate plan for a seemingly impossible heist -- the city's Federal Reserve Bank.

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Critics Consensus

Den of Thieves pays energetic homage to classic heist thrillers of the past; unfortunately, it never comes close to living up to its obvious inspirations.

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Stephen Romei

The Australian

Butler and Schreiber deliver commanding performances. They are men who could explode at any moment, at work or at home. That nonstop ticking beneath their calm exteriors fills the film with a gripping tension.

Rated: 3.5/5

Feb 14, 2018

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

Den of Thieves desperately wants to be Heat or The Killer when it grows up. Instead it's a daft, distant, drunken cousin to those pictures, but if you studiously avoid thinking about it, you can at least enjoy its moronic antics.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 5, 2018

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Sandra Hall

Sydney Morning Herald

The film's sole virtue is its finale - a complicated plot twist that sparks a belated, and brief, surge of interest.

Rated: 2/5

Feb 2, 2018

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David Griffiths

Subculture Entertainment

A very well-written crime thriller that keeps the action to the fore but doesn't forget how important an intense a plot is as well. Butler is amazing in a role that he was born to play.

Rated: 3.5/5

Apr 19, 2025

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Richard Crouse

Richard Crouse

It's one thing for the bad guys to shoot one another, but when cops place dozens of innocent people in the middle of an automatic gun battle it feels gratuitous even for a movie like this.

Rated: 2/5

Feb 28, 2021

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Dan Buffa

KSDK News (St. Louis)

The lesson is simple, ladies and gents. Don't judge a book or movie by its cover. There could be a fun toy waiting in that gift you didn't care to unwrap.

Nov 10, 2020

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KimB

I enjoyed this movie! Action was on point!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/10/25

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Movie C

Could have had a better ending. This is all I will say.. disappointed because it was ok for the first 30 minutes of the movie.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

07/20/25

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Krstn 8.

The first almost 2 hours of this movie felt like another average action movie with trying to act all tough guy forced acting, some pointless scenes that would have made the run time more tolerable if they cut out, and zero originality. The last 30 minutes it really grew on me and made me excited for the sequel. I think Gerald Butler is capable of more of a performance but the script he was given did him wrong. I’m surprised with all the reviews mentioning divorced dad energy that no one commented how hard the Pepto Bismol ad they snuck in there went.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

07/16/25

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Stoner J

Despite this being the most cliche’d movie in history, and none of the characters are believable in their roles, it’s still a super entertaining action flick… much better than the sequel. Seriously though, between the cop ‘crew’ and the criminal crew, there’s enough cliche’s here to fill a book, bad writing on that front, ill advised writing

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

07/10/25

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Jeffrey P

Overdrawn, Slow-paced, lowbrow action flick without a lot of action and 45 minutes to an hour too long. Perhaps lowbrow is too harsh, since it would look very good in the 1970's or 1980's when cigarette smoking was a status symbol... but it’s 2025. I suspected to be what it is which is why I didn’t watch it until it got a sequel, so I figured ‘well, maybe it’s a good surprise.’ It’s not. I saw the comparisons to Heat, I am not the biggest Heat fan but this was not even close.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

06/19/25

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Romas M

Greetings from Lithuania. Without any doubts, "Den of Thieves" really had took a lot of inspiration from "Heat" - from an opening shot till its characters and its theme - it was all there. Unfortunately what it did lacked was amazing characters, terrific antagonist, and perfect shootout sequence - all main things that made "Heat" perfect. On the other hand "Den of Thieves" was a pretty entertaining movie on its own. It had a good central hero played by always great screen presence Gerard Butler. It had a good looking but unfortunately lacking charisma antagonist -they could give more to this character. Also at running time 2 h 20 min this movie was surprisingly very well paced and barely dragged. The shootout scene at the end was not bad at all. And the ending left me surprised, and in a pretty good way. So at the end of the day i liked this movie - it was good. But it could have been so much better!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/13/25

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Den of Thieves: Official Clip - Brutal and Professional Bank Robbery

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Den of Thieves: Official Clip - EPIC Traffic Jam Shootout

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Den of Thieves: Official Clip - TENSE AF Federal Reserve Robbery

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Den of Thieves: Official Clip - Last Man Standing

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Synopsis

Nick O'Brien is the hard-drinking leader of the Regulators, an elite unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Ray Merrimen is the recently paroled leader of the Outlaws, a gang of ex-military men who use their expertise and tactical skills to evade the law. O'Brien, Merrimen and their crews soon find themselves on a direct collision course as the criminals hatch an elaborate plan for a seemingly impossible heist -- the city's Federal Reserve Bank.

Director: Christian Gudegast
Producer: Mark Canton, Tucker Tooley, Gerard Butler, Alan Siegel
Screenwriter: Christian Gudegast
Distributor: STX Films
Production Co: G-BASE, Diamond Film Productions, Tucker Tooley Entertainment
Rating: R (Some Sexuality/Nudity|Language|Violence)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 19, 2018, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 25, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $44.9M
Runtime: 2h 20m
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1

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