mason25

Slap a different name or main characters on it and it's a passable action hiest movie, trying to call it a sequel to Den of Thieves is just disrespectful to the first one.

The first crew were tight, controlled, and meant business. In this one we have only Donnie and Nick and some generic stand ins who we don't know or get to know, so we don't care for them at all.

The action scenes in part 1 were phenomenal and well shot and acted. In this one they were sloppy and felt forced. Especially at the end of the car chase, truly after an all night drive to escape and THAT'S where they meet up with what's his face.... sure, that wasn't immensely convenient...

The heist itself wasn't terrible, it felt real enough with a few minor issues.

A staffing of 6 or so guards for the world diamond exchange.... 2 guys to clear the whole building???? They didn't even have radios when clearing ffs.

During the escape chase, the entire city of Nice is practicially empty because.... just because.

Ad placement takes on a whole new level of idiocy in most newer movies, this time Porsche (Volkswagen group) and Audi were the focus.

The ending also not very convincing, Nick does what he does and then just passes on this info that isn't even helpful... "sit back left" not a single shot fired and "back left" isn't actually a seat position, rear passenger or driver side is. Back left depends on your orientation.

Had anyone else delivered the info though it would've made more sense.

It's poorly written by someone who thought having a lot of action and bullet points to hit for plot, regardless of anything approaching logic or how people act, or would respond to the situations.

The outlaw Lawson somehow has the code to the mcguffin in the house safe.

He also has a "friend" who is a psychopath but him and Sharnie obviously don't notice at any point prior.

Dezi somehow goes from barely being a new hire to being given a side by side to randomly go look for "lost" cattle on the Lawson property.... because they certainly wouldn't have used someone who had been around for more than a week.

There are dozens of scenarios that play out identically in their level of stupidity.

Just about the only redeeming points are the older drunk son getting sober and trying to do better.

Thinking of that though, when he was in prison his cell mate couldn't try to force some hand sanitizer on him more forcefully for no reason that makes any sense.

The only things that made this worth 3 stars were the cinematography and some of the wildlife shots.

Mrs Holloway was the main character to ruin this entire series.

I understand you have to appear strong to not be targeted for being weak, but she was beyond useless in 99.8% of her screen time.

Unrelenting and demanding for the stupidest of things. Oh we need a bigger fire in the middle of the night, we need to get moving 6 seconds after reuniting with her son and the native girl, and many many other stupid choices.

She didn't understand even the basics of traveling and trying not to be followed. Was given so many opportunities to help herself and yet was nothing more than useless and often more of a hindrance than a boon in nearly every situation.

Isaac was easily the best and most likable.

Abish and her husband weren't terrible but way too predictable that their story ended the way it did.

Kim Coates was good enough in his role, though the prosthetic nose was distracting.

In the end it was a mediocre show with some realistic violence portrayed.

Unlikely to ever want to watch it again, it just wasn't that good.