Den of Thieves 2, now on Netflix, pulls off another great heist with a smart subgenre pivot

The original Den of Thieves was a movie cut directly from the Heat mold: a kitchen-sink heist movie with a little bit of everything. There were wives, kids, crews, and every kind of relationship drama, all held together by the glue of a cat-and-mouse race between cops and crooks — hell, even Heat threw in a serial killer plotline. But above all else, Den of Thieves, like Heat, was mostly very serious business. Sure, there was a joke here or there, but they rarely fel...