DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA

Name: DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA
Item: DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA
Author: Review

"Will He or Won’t He?"

Family Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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What You Need To Know:

DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA stars Gerard Butler as a Los Angeles deputy sheriff who goes undercover in France to infiltrate a gang of diamond thieves called the Panther Crew. Donnie, a thief who got the better of him in Los Angeles, is part of the crew, which is planning a heist at the World Diamond Center in Nice. Nick convinces Donnie he’s now a disgruntled cop. At a party, Nick manages to get two of the Panther Crew tossed off the gang when he flirts with the crew’s leader, a woman named Jovanna, at a party. Meanwhile, the Panthers have upset an Italian gang. The gang threatens Nick and Donnie. Nick seems to go along with the heist in France, or is he just buying time?

DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA is a slick heist thriller with a unique setting and a nice climactic twist where some bad guys get their just desserts. However, an additional twist at the end is morally ambiguous, and the movie has lots of strong foul language throughout its running time. So, DEN OF THIEVES: PANTERA is excessive and unacceptable.

Content:

(PaPa, B, C, FR, LLL, VV, S, N, AA, DD, M):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong pagan worldview where a sheriff’s deputy from Los Angeles infiltrates a gang of thieves and seems to go along with their latest heist until he doesn’t, but he seems to help a thief do another lesser crime so the movie’s moral points are ambiguous, plus man enters a Catholic cathedral and listens to a choir while trailing someone, and a man seems to be a Muslim and uses a prayer rug;

Foul Language:

About 140 obscenities (including about 110 “f” words), one GD profanity, four light profanities, and one obscene gesture;

Violence:

Strong and light action violence and fighting includes a car chase with bullets flying back and forth, cars crash, men are shot and killed and lie in a pool of blood, two men are thrown into the ocean a mile or so from shore, but they survive, and men get into a fight;

Sex:

No sex scenes, but about two crude sexual references, and divorced main character flirts and dances sensuously with a man’s ex-wife, which results in a fight, plus the woman is part of a “honey trap” for a diamond heist;

Nudity:

Brief upper male nudity;

Alcohol Use:

Alcohol use and sheriff apparently infiltrating a gang of thieves gets drunk in a nightclub;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

Cigarette smoking and man infiltrating a gang of thieves takes a drug and smokes hashish or something ese laced with a drug in a nightclub; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Stealing, but people don’t always get away with the crimes, and a policeman helps break a man out of prison.