A new trailer for writer-directorChristian Gudegast’s action-crime-dramaDen of Thievesis now available for your viewing pleasure. The film, which clearly draws inspiration from (and offers admiration for)Michael Mann’s 1995 expert actionerHeat, centers on opposing groups on either side of law enforcement with a high-stakes heist acting as the main source of conflict at the center of all the explosive action. You could glean as much from thepreviously released trailerwithout going too far into the movie’s details.
This new and final trailer, however, is essentially a battle of exposition betweenGerard Butler’s over-the-top cop Nick Flanagan andPablo Schreiber’s all-out antagonist as the leader of the bank robbers. At two-and-a-half minutes, this trailer lays out just about everything you need to know about the premise, reveals abunchof shots in which the cops ‘n’ robbers both seem to be interacting with each other ahead of the heist, and even snatches of the ultimate (I presume) shootout. Maybe this thing is heavy on the exposition because they don’t want to ruin the action beats in the film, or maybe because it’s masking the shortcomings of Gudegast’s first outing as a director. There might yet be a fun, intense heist film under all those info-dumps, but we’ll have to wait a few weeks to find out.
Also starringO’Shea Jackson Jr.,50 Cent,Maurice Compte, andSonya Balmores,Den of Thievesopens on January 19th.
Check out the final trailer forDen of Thievesbelow:
DEN OF THIEVES is a gritty Los Angeles crime saga which follows the intersecting and often personally connected lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff’s Dept. and the state’s most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank of downtown Los Angeles.
