
Big Nick in France! I'd be okay with that subtitle. After we watched the first film, Den of Thieves, for the main show, it was a no-brainer to have a Now Showing episode surrounding the sequel, especially since many of the people behind the camera and in front of the camera are returning.
And while this movie carries over from the characters and events of the first film, it truly is its own movie. I make a point in the episode that we may have been conditioned, with the prevalence of world building, to expect sequels to simply be a continuation of the move prior and not it's own adventure. Sure, we're not ignoring what's happened before, but we're also not relying on your need to know what happened before to enjoy this new movie. That make sense?
You don't need to watch Raiders of the Lost Ark (The only title I will accept) to watch any of the other films. They're all separate adventures. There's no tesseract popping up in movie 23, that you learned about in movie 3 and then 6.
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
Written and Directed by Christian Gudegast
Starring Gerard Butler, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Evan Ahmad, Salvatore Esposito, Oril Shuka
Find out what we thought about our latest entry into the Now Showing franchise!
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