Den of Thieves - an action heist film
In Los Angeles, a group of previous MARSOC Marines drove by Ray Merrimen (Pablo Schreiber) capture a reinforced truck. The following shootout with police leaves a few dead, including one of Merrimen's group, as the criminals escape with the vacant truck. LASD Detective Nick O'Brien explores the burglary, making the as of late paroled Merrimen his excellent suspect. Scratch's group grabs Donnie Wilson, a barkeep who admits to going about as the criminals' unarmed escape driver. He depicts a huge amount of money taken from an arena by the group, however denies knowing their tentative arrangements and is delivered.
Merrimen and his team get ready to ransack the vigorously protected Federal Reserve: with around $30 million in old bills eliminated from course every day, they intend to take the untraceable cash before it is destroyed. Scratch's group tails Donnie, who is employed as a Chinese food conveyance driver, permitting him to convey inside the Federal Reserve. A showdown with Nick drives Merrimen's group to speculate Donnie is a witness. Examined at gunpoint, he concedes he was addressed by Nick; incredibly, Merrimen orders him to disclose to Nick when the heist is occurring. Donnie illuminates Nick however denies knowing the area. Scratch lays down with Merrimen's sweetheart, who – following up on Merrimen's guidelines – uncovers the team will loot a bank in Pico Rivera.
Upon the arrival of the heist, as Nick's group stands by close by, Merrimen's team takes the Pico Rivera bank prisoner, requesting a payment and a helicopter. At the point when the FBI endeavor to arrange, the team seems to execute a female prisoner. The hoodlums access the vault and explode explosives inside, driving Nick to understand this isn't their standard M.O. He anxiously storms the bank himself to discover the prisoners alive, bound and hooded while the criminals have blown their way into the sewers and got away.
Merrimen and his right-hand man Levi penetrate the Federal Reserve, utilizing the taken reinforced truck and arena cash to act like watchmen dropping off money. Donnie, covered up inside a truck of money, is wheeled inside an including room as the cheats disturb the room's influence, causing it to appear to be a typical brownout. The workers are momentarily sent away, and Donnie triggers an electromagnetic heartbeat to cripple the room's cameras as he sends the bills reserved for destroying securely down the rubbish chute. Slithering through an air pipe to the bathroom, he leaves the structure in his conveyance uniform as Merrimen and Levi withdraw.
A dump truck gets the waste containing the cash and is blocked by the cheats. Scratch's group catch Donnie and beat him into uncovering Merrimen's break course. Trapped in rush hour gridlock, Merrimen's group recognize Nick's group drawing closer and trade fire; Deputy "Borracho" and hoodlum Bosco are killed. Escaping by walking with Nick in close pursuit, Levi is executed and Merrimen is seriously injured. Cornered, Merrimen raises his unfilled weapon, driving Nick to lethally shoot him. Rather than the cash, just sacks of destroyed paper are found in Merrimen's vehicle, and the FBI illuminate Nick that all money is represented at the Federal Reserve, while Donnie has gotten away.
Scratch returns to
Donnie's bar just to learn he has stopped. Seeing the bar is frequented by
Federal Reserve representatives, and detecting an image of Donnie and his
companions, Nick acknowledges Donnie is the heist's actual genius: gathering
data from bar supporters, he had the option to design the whole theft, and
enrolled his companions to catch the cash and deceive Merrimen's team. Having
dispatched the cash seaward to Panama and disappeared to London with his
associates, Donnie is working at another bar opposite a precious stone trade his next target.