“ Den of Thieves 2: Pantera ” features the world’s first electric car chase. When writer and director Christian Gudegast was thinking about the film’s sequel, he knew he needed to raise the stakes, and what better way to do that than with an all-action, shoot-out car chase? And it needed to feel fast and real.

Pantera leaves viewers wondering if thieves can ever be in total alignment when it’s against their true nature. In this franchise sequel, O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Gerard Butler band together as unlikely forces and blur the lines between the actions of an anti-hero and a real villain.

The franchise is back after a laborious seven years that included COVID and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but filmmaker Christian Gudegast believes a third installment will come much sooner.

The dogged cop and wily thief butt heads again in Christian Gudegast's follow-up to his 2018 heist thriller. Imagine the iconic diner sit-down scene between Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in Michael Mann’s Heat stretched out to feature length and you’ll get some idea of Den of Thieves 2: Pantera.

As director and producer, Gudegast and Tooley had to work closely together once again on Den of Thieves 2. They go way back, Gudegast said they “basically came up in the business together,” dating back to A Man Apart, which was released in 2003.

Writer/director Christian Gudegast’s Den Of Thieves is not a film that particularly appealed to my personal sensibilities, but it did allow me to go into the sequel with an open mind and reasonable hopes.

Christian Gudegast's sequel ups the stupidity of the cat-and-mouse thriller that preceded it en route to becoming far more entertaining than it had any right to be. A mere seven years later, “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera” rolled into our lives with almost as many red flags as the Chicago Bears’ coaching vacancy.

I should have been a bank robber. I truly believe I missed my calling not being a bad boy with a heart of gold who charms those he’s ripping off with a wide smile

Den of Thieves 3 receives an exciting and promising update from star and producer Gerard Butler, following the success of the second movie.

Pantera has yet to recover its reported budget but it has passed two Jason Statham-led Guy Ritchie hits at the global box office.

With the new European setting, everything is more sleek and professional; which means Den of Thieves 2 lacks a lot of the grit that made the first movie work in the first place.

The way that Gerard Butler chooses to smoke his cigarettes in the Den of Thieves movies. You can see it in the photo below. There’s a very unique style to the way that “Big” Nick O’Brien holds his cigarettes while he’s planning a diamond heist,