Review Thieves' Game Panther film directed by Christian Gudegast with Gerard Butler, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Jordan Bridges.
After the events of the first part, Donnie Wilson works in Europe, with a new team that intends to carry out an impossible robbery. Meanwhile, Nick O'Brien seems to have lost everything and also heads to Europe, with the idea of leaving the police and helping in the heist, going over to the side of the criminals and becoming a thief.
Director: Christian Gudegast
Writer: Christian Gudegast
Stars: Gerard Butler, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Evin Ahmad
For some time now, Gerard Butler has specialized in this kind of B-series action and suspense products, which often do not reach commercial theaters, but which, when they do, usually have a very loyal audience. Of all of them, surely the most successful has been Thieves' Game, which has given rise to a sequel again written and directed by Christian Gudegast, Butler's regular collaborator as producer and screenwriter. The film tries to break away from the previous one and change everything we thought we knew to give us first-rate entertainment.
The location, the team, the type of story change… but that's just on the surface. Inside, the changes are bigger and much more radical. There's more humor, the visual style is completely different, the characters even change sides… Those who remain, who are basically those played by Gerard Butler and O'Shea Jackson Jr. (although there are some memories of the first part too…), who give them a twist in a different situation. In fact, the film basically continues the story where the first one ended, with that phrase about the diamonds… That is to say, it knows how to fit into what they had proposed and the adventure is not taken out of nowhere.
Europe is brighter, more colorful, more festive than what we experienced in Los Angeles in the first film, which is noticeable not only in the photography, but in the characters. The personal dramas are minor or soon forgotten, so the film seeks to amuse and entertain from the start, without being as interesting, perhaps, but maintaining an exceptional pace and plot twists that work, although some are obvious. It is something that the first film worked better at.
It is true that the biggest problem is that the film does not have the cast of the original, in the secondary characters, who were much more charismatic and had much greater presence on screen. Names like Curtis Jackson, Pablo Schreiber, Evan Jones or Brian Van Holt are missing. Only the character of Evin Ahmad has enough presence to be recorded. There is not much more to scratch in that sense in a film that wastes the presence of Michael Bisping, for example, although it links with the end of the previous one.
It's okay, it's clear that it's a different kind of project and product, it takes advantage of Butler's charisma in a character that we already know is not exactly pleasant, it gives the story a twist and gives us more than two hours of entertainment without more. Without complications and expanding the universe that had been created in the first film. And it is clear that they want to create more if success accompanies this story. It's a good action thriller, with some moments of impossible script, and it doesn't try to repeat the formula of the first film. It's inferior to that one, but it's very enjoyable.
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