I barely remember anything about the first Den of Thieves and nothing about this sequel encouraged me look it up. About all I remember is that I thought it was kind of boring and overstuffed with macho bullshit. The sequel doesn’t fall too far from the tree… but it does it a lot slower.

Den of Thieves 2 apparently picks up where the last one left off (I guess). Gerard Butler is after O’Shea Jackson… in France this time (call it Nice Guys, if you must). They eventually team up to pull off a long, plodding heist to get a diamond for even worse people.

Did I say “long, plodding heist”? Because, yeah, that describes this whole movie. It’s so tedious that my brain would short circuit when there’d be “comedic” scene between the characters. It’s like someone said, “we need to punch up this script… but only occasionally so it feels awkward and out of place”.

But, hey, a good heist movie can be improved by the actual heist, right? Not this one… instead of being energetic and thrilling, it continues its monotone soundtrack as it shows us. every. single. thing. they. do. And it’s not a particularly fun or interesting break-in so each. and. every. step. feels like ten minutes wasted.

There is a good car chase near the end… I’ll give them credit for that.

The most aggravating thing is the endless ending and the obvious sequel baiting. If we have to put up with another 2 1/2 heist flick from the same writer/director, I’ll probably do what I should have done with this one: skip it.

Score: 68