Den of Thieves is just my kind of trash.
The directorial debut of London has Fallen writer Christian
Gudegast, the sprawling heist film plays like a bargain bin version of Michael
Mann’s 1995 classic Heat. Only more macho. Which is
impressive, given Heat is already jacked up on testosterone
and fragile male egos.
I should know better by now, I really should, but I can’t
help but be irrationally excited for Den of Thieves. I know,
I know, it’s a mid-January action movie that looks dumb as shit and macho
beyond belief, but it also looks 100% my jam. Watching this new trailer, I can’t
help myself, I giggled and clapped the entire time.
Why did it take me two full days to watch this Den
of Thieves trailer? It’s everything I like: gritty no-frills action, bank
robbers, a brutally generic name, Gerard Butler, O’Shea Jackson, a dude from The
Wire (Pablo Schreiber), and a rapper (50 Cent). And it’s the guy who
wrote London Has Fallen and A Man Apart
making his directorial debut. And it looks like clearance-sale Heat.
All of which means it’s just my speed. I knew it was out there, I just slept on
it. But don’t worry, I rectified this grievous oversight and all is right with
the world.
