"The Den of Thieves" is the first feature film made by Christian Goodgast as a director. He previously participated in the production of "London Has Fallen" as a screenwriter, but he prefers a realistic style for the agent at that time. Actions add more realistic elements. He himself also revealed in the interview that the "Fall" series is not so in line with his film style, so he will not appear in the production team of the sequel "Angel Has Fallen".
The film is inspired by the diamond theft in Andwerp in 2003. Through the saturation, low brightness tones, and vulgar lines, we can see a police officer full of bandit in the film alive - "You are not We are the bad guys." A story of fighting wits and bravery with criminals. To tell the truth, this film was not easy to come by. The preparations began in 2003. In the middle, it experienced the bankruptcy of the distribution company Relativity Media. It was only when STX was found a few years ago that the film was announced.
The movie is divided into a release version and an unrated version, in which the latter has some plot changes, explicit language, and some scenes that are not very useful, which are described in detail in this thread . For a commercial film, 149 minutes would feel a bit long, not to mention the capacity of just one story rather than a multi-hero multi-capacity story like the "Avengers" series. In order to express that they are not popular masks, the director added some plots to the lives of the main characters to make them more three-dimensional. Just like Gerard Butler, a man of iron and blood who works as soon as he comes up, has a little more life under his choreography. But the disadvantage of this is that, regardless of the length of the film, whether it can continue to use this character in the sequel is also one of its usefulness and ineffectiveness. (PS: The Thieves' Nest 2 has already been put on the schedule. Now the director seems to have just thought about the outline, and the script has not yet been compiled. The background location should be transferred to Europe, and the Thieves' Nest 1 is expected to be introduced to the mainland)
The plot is divided into two parallel narrations. The director tries to lead the audience. Of course, he also lays down some unbelievable foreshadowing from time to time to prepare for the final reversal. The director did not think about reversing the plot at the beginning, he paid more attention to It is the shaping of the characters, but the reversal of the plot is undoubtedly a good foundation for the sequel. It is said that the recent Hollywood films are more and more like to use inversion, maybe this is also a new way of living in commercial films. Of course, the director revealed that the film was close to 160 minutes when it was first cut, and there would be a different ending.
When we talk about Gerard Butler's movies, we have to talk about his proud action scenes. On the one hand, I guess it is due to the plot - after all, the real police usually need superb archery to arrest people, and force is second. Liam Neeson can still play at his age). Generally speaking, there are not many fighting scenes in "The Den of Thieves", but the gunfights are very exciting. Different from the street gunfights, the two teams of characters have professional backgrounds - let me also say here that Pablo Schreiber who plays the villain Ernest and O'Shea Jackson Jr. also participated in military training before shooting, so they were quite professional in terms of holding guns and tactical literacy in the fight between the two sides. This is also reflected in the division of labor and cooperation between the villains.
Looking forward to the sequel, it is likely that only the main character Gerard Butler remains, but as mentioned above, left the United States to work in Europe. It is also very likely to make him give up his current marriage, which makes the character emotions that this film has finally built up is likely to fall short. But no matter how you say it, as an audience, although I personally feel that some clips can be shortened in consideration of the sequel, and some details can be handled more compactly (commercially), I am still very happy to see a well-matched, IQ online. Action thriller. This also shows something, as long as the creators are a little more careful, at least part of the audience, or capitalists, can be satisfied.
Keywords: Rush, police, crime, thriller, action
Similar movies: "The Wire", "Car Thief", "The Usual Suspects", "League of Thieves"
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