History Film / DenOfThieves

* AndTheAdventureContinues: A villainous example. The movie ends [[spoiler:with Donnie and his real crew in London, laying the ground work for a new heist at a diamond exchange.]]

* InsecurityCamera: Justified. The guards immediately notice when the cameras goes on the fritz, but cannot send anyone one to check it because the counting rooms are in LockDown due to the brownout. The keep an eye on the fuzzed screen and do their best to fix it from the monitor room, and send someone to investigate as soon as the lock down ends.

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Donnie. First, he spends years working at a bar that he knows is frequented by employees of the Federal Reserve, and uses his service job to eavesdrop on their conversations to accumulate enough information to plan the heist. Then he lets Merrimen in on the heist, holding out that Merrimen and his crew get to reap the lion's share of the cash. He plants his own people inside the Reserve to facilitate access to the Reserve, or enable lifting the prize out of the garbage dumpster. This trope most clearly shows when he deliberately allows both Merrimen's crew and Nick's posse to subject him to ButtMonkey treatment, causing both groups to grossly underestimate him. He seems to allow Merrimen and his crew to take the most active role in pulling off the heist, but in truth he is taking the relatively safest role for himself while allowing Merrimen's crew to take all the physical risks upon themselves. Once he's made it to the garbage dumpster, he switches out the prize cash to his own driver, and leaves Merrimen's driver with useless shredded cash. Merrimen dies without ever knowing he's been double-crossed, as it's Nick who opens the bags with the shredded cash. He has no issue with walking down the street from the Reserve to present himself as an easy nab for Nick, but the point there is that he's all too ready to give up Merrimen's location to Nick. Then he picks his handcuffs and escapes while Nick's posse is engrossed in an intense and extended fire fight with Merrimen and his crew. And to top it all off, he uses his cash to open a bar in London near the diamond exchange, so that he can gather intel for a heist on the exchange, and coincidentally setting up a SequelHook along the way.]]

* TheChessMaster: Donnie, oh where to begin ... [[spoiler: First, he spends years working at a bar that he knows is frequented by employees of the Federal Reserve, and uses his service job to eavesdrop on their conversations to accumulate enough information to plan the heist. Then he lets Merrimen in on the heist, holding out that Merrimen and his crew get to reap the lion's share of the cash. He plants his own people inside the Reserve to facilitate access to the Reserve, or enable lifting the prize out of the garbage dumpster. This trope most clearly shows when he deliberately allows both Merrimen's crew and Nick's posse to subject him to ButtMonkey treatment, causing both groups to grossly underestimate him. He seems to allow Merrimen and his crew to take the most active role in pulling off the heist, but in truth he is taking the relatively safest role for himself while allowing Merrimen's crew to take all the physical risks upon themselves. Once he's made it to the garbage dumpster, he switches out the prize cash to his own driver, and leaves Merrimen's driver with useless shredded cash. Merrimen dies without ever knowing he's been double-crossed, as it's Nick who opens the bags with the shredded cash. He has no issue with walking down the street from the Reserve to present himself as an easy nab for Nick, but the point there is that he's all too ready to give up Merrimen's location to Nick. Then he picks his handcuffs and escapes while Nick's posse is engrossed in an intense and extended fire fight with Merrimen and his crew. And to top it all off, he uses his cash to open a bar in London near the diamond exchange, so that he can gather intel for a heist on the exchange, and coincidentally setting up a SequelHook along the way.]]

* TheChessMaster: Donnie, oh where to begin ... [[spoiler: First, he spends years working at bar that he knows is frequented by employees of the Federal Service, and uses his service job to eavesdrop on their conversations to accumulate enough information to plan the heist. Then he lets Merrimen in on the heist, holding out that Merrimen and his crew get to reap the share of the cash. He plants his own people inside the Reserve to facilitate access to the Reserve, or enable lifting the prize out of the garbage dump. This trope most clearly shows when he deliberately allows both Merrimen's crew and Nick's posse to subject him to ButtMonkey treatment, causing both groups to grossly underestimate him. He seems to allow Merrimen and his crew to take the most active role in pulling off the heist, but in truth is taking the relatively safest role for himself while allowing Merrimen's crew to take all the physical risks upon themselves. Once he's made it to the garbage dumpster, he switches out the prize cash to his own driver, and leaves Merrimen's driver with useless shredded cash. Merrimen dies without ever knowing he's been double-crossed, as it's Nick who opens the bags with the shredded cash. He has no issue with walking down the street from the Reserve to present himself as an easy nab for Nick, but the point there is that he's all too ready to give up Merrimen's location to Nick. Then he picks his handcuffs and escapes while Nick's posse is engrossed in an intense and extended fire fight with Merrimen and his crew. And to top it all off, he uses his cash to open a bar in London near the diamond exchange, so that he can gather intel for a heist on the exchange.]]

* {{BFG}}: When Merriman is stuck in the traffic jam and sees the deputies advancing on him from behind, he pulls out a SAW from the back of the truck and sets it up on the bonnet. The deputies are taken completely by surprise when he fires through his own vehicle to attack them, killing one of them in the first volley of shots.
* BlastOut: At the start of the film, Merriman and his crew are holding the armoured car guards at gunpoint while they hijack the armoured car. Things are going according to plan till one of the guards goes for his gun (or possibly just drops his coffee). Bosco shoots, a firefight kicks off that leaves one robber, most of the guards and several cops dead, and several others injured.
* ConcealmentEqualsCover. Averted. Merriman jumps over a thin metal fence and then gets shot through it. Of course, Merriman wasn't trying to use the fence as cover. He just jumped it because it was in his way.

* DressingAsTheEnemy: Merriman and some of his crew disguise themselves as armored car escorts to infiltrate the Fed Reserve.

* TheHeist: Merriman and his crew are planning a heist on the Federal Reserve Bank in Los Angeles: the 'bank for banks'.

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: O'Brien and his cops grab Donnie after the robbery at the Fed, then handcuff him to inside of their truck and beat him till he tells them the location where Merriman and the rest of the crew are meeting up.
* LockDown: The Fed goes into lockdown in the event of a brownout, with all power being diverted to keep the security systems functioning. Merriman and his crew use this to their advantage in planning TheHeist; deliberately triggering a brownout to initiate a lockdown.

* TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction: After a brutal argument with his soon-to-be ex-wife, Big Nick goes to a strip club. One of the dancers picks him up and takes him back to her place. It is only the next morning when Merriman walks into the apartment that Nick realises that the woman is Merriman's girlfriend and he has been taken for a ride (in multiple senses).
* SemperFi: Merriman and his crew are all former Marines who have gone FromCamouflageToCriminal. A big deal is made about how their military training discipline and training makes them far more organised and dangerous than your average gang of gangbangers.
* SuicideByCop: During the final showdown, [[spoiler:Merriman]]--having run out of bullets--slams an empty magazine into his gun, making Big Nick think that he has reloaded. He then comes out and points the empty gun at Nick, forcing Nick to shoot him.

* ThrowawayGuns: When running from Big Nick at the end of the film, Merriman throws away his assault rifle. Justified as the rifle is out of ammo, and Merriman is looking to disencumber himself to make it easier to escape.

DressingAsTheEnemy: Merriman and some of his crew disguise themselves as armored car escorts to infiltrate the Fed Reserve.

* TwerpSweating: When Levoux's daughter's date shows up to collect her for the prom, Leveaux leads him into a room fill with {{Tattooed Crook}}s who very politely threaten him.

* {{BFG}}: When Merriman is stuck in the traffic jam and sees the deputies advancing on him from behind, he pulls out a SAW from the back of the truck and sets it up on the bonnet. The deputies are taking completely by surprise when he fires through his own vehicle to attack them, killing one of them in the first volley of shots.

* FromCamouflageToCriminal: The bank robbery crew is made up exclusively of ex-Marines.

* BlastOut: At the start of ''Film/DenOfThieves'', Merriman and his crew are holding the armoured car guards at gunpoint while they hijack the armoured car. Things are going according to plan till one of the guards goes for his gun (or possibly just drops his coffee). Bosco shoots, a firefight kicks off that leaves one robber, most of the guards and several cops dead, and several others injured.

* SuicideByCop: During the final showdown, [[spoiler:Merriman]]--having run of bullets--slams an empty magazine into his gun, making Big Nick think that he has reloaded. He then comes out and points the empty gun at Nick, forcing Nick to shoot him.

* FromCamouflageToCriminal: The bank robbery crew is made up exclusively of ex-marines.

''Den of Thieves'' is a 2018 American heist film co-written, directed and produced by Christian Gudegast. The film stars Creator/GerardButler, 50 Cent, Pablo Schreiber, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Evan Jones, Dawn Olivieri, Mo [=McRae=], and Max Holloway.

''Den of Thieves'' is a 2018 American heist film co-written, directed and produced by Christian Gudegast. The film stars Gerard Butler, 50 Cent, Pablo Schreiber, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Evan Jones, Dawn Olivieri, Mo [=McRae=], and Max Holloway.

* TwerpSweating: When Levoux's daughter's date shows up to collect her for the prom, Leveaux leads him into a room fill with {{Tattooed Crooks}}s who very politely threaten him.

''Den of Thieves'' is a 2018 American heist film co-written, directed and produced by Christian Gudegast. The film stars Gerard Butler, 50 Cent, Pablo Schreiber, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Evan Jones, Dawn Olivieri, Mo McRae, and Max Holloway.