Credit: STX Films As a self-professed fan of all things Gerard Butler (even when he doesn’t use his Scottish accent), I’m a little pissed off at myself for sleeping on Den of Thieves for so long. This 2018 crime thriller about a morally ambiguous cop trying to prevent a close-knit group of bank robbers from pulling off the heist of the century was something I admittedly put off for way too long,

Gerard Butler didn't have the best time filming Den of Thieves 2: Pantera as he shot the movie "with a freshly torn ACL."

Owen Gleiberman of Variety calls Den of Thieves 2: Pantera a satisfying impersonation of a high-end crime film, saying that Gerard Butler is good enough to lift “a piece of pulp so it almost seems like a real movie.” The critic continues: