Butler and Schreiber deliver commanding performances. They are men who could explode at any moment, at work or at home. That nonstop ticking beneath their calm exteriors fills the film with a gripping tension.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 14, 2018

Den of Thieves desperately wants to be Heat or The Killer when it grows up. Instead it's a daft, distant, drunken cousin to those pictures, but if you studiously avoid thinking about it, you can at least enjoy its moronic antics.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2018

The film's sole virtue is its finale - a complicated plot twist that sparks a belated, and brief, surge of interest.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 2, 2018

Slick and solid in moments, Den Of Thieves disappoints with its reliance on easy plotting and gruff, overcooked acting. One for Butler completists only.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 2, 2018

Lethal Weapon meets Heat meets an unintentional Tropic Thunder-style parody in a straight-faced cop movie that begins with fabulous verve and energy before descending into giggle-inducing macho clichés.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 2, 2018

It often resembles a men's rights bonding weekend more than it does a movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 1, 2018

It's hard to think of any recent thriller as derivative as Den Of Thieves.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 31, 2018

Gerard Butler, as a ruthless LA County sheriff in Den of Thieves, is hard-drinking, hard-swearing and hard-living. As Mae West said, a hard man is good to find.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2018

The best thing that I can ultimately say about Den of Thieves is that it's a missed opportunity.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jan 26, 2018

The ending is awful. It's so silly, and unnecessary.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 25, 2018

"Den of Thieves" may not be as moody as "To Live and Die in L.A." or as clever as "The Usual Suspects," but it works well on its own terms. As for Butler, it's like discovering him all over again.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 20, 2018

The loser is the audience for Den of Thieves, an over-the-top crime saga mainly indicating that its writer/director has seen Michael Mann's Heat too many times.

| Jan 19, 2018

Den of Thieves is way too derivative of similar motion pictures (most notably Heat) and features a script that continually presents the majority of its characters as short-tempered nincompoops.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 19, 2018

You'd think those [Gerard Butler and Pablo Schreiber] would steal the movie. But no, that honor goes to O'Shea Jackson, Jr., the son of Ice Cube who played his dad in Straight Outta Compton.

| Jan 19, 2018

The film falls apart in its numerous implausibilities.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 19, 2018

Gudegast's twisty, turny tale of heists and homies is an action-packed romp with a good sense of humor and self-awareness.

| Jan 19, 2018

[Butler] tears into his performance as nasty cop (well, sheriff) and lousy husband Nick Flanagan the way Flanagan tears into a crime-scene donut, and crams the screen with a combination of Russell Crowe's burly menace and Mel Gibson's manic rage.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 19, 2018

What might have been a slick, smash-mouth, fast-paced piece of entertainment clocking in at 90 or 100 minutes somehow turns into a bloated, half-baked pie that drags on for 2 hours and 20 minutes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 19, 2018

First-time director Christian Gudegast also wrote the film, and you can tell, in the sense that there was clearly no one there to look at the script and say, "Come on."

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 19, 2018

It's derivative and drowning in stagnant machismo, but stark enough to work.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 19, 2018