Why is “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “pervasive language, some violence, drug use and sexual references.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a pornographic movie playing in the background of a scene, some flirting, a kiss on the cheek, a man and a woman dancing and embracing, gunfire exchanged between cars and one driver is struck and drives the vehicle over a cliff, two men being shot and killed, an extended sequence of a diamond vault robbery, a man wearing a bulletproof vest being shot, two men being threatened and left in the ocean, and over 110 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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Unable to give up on finding those responsible for a suspected robbery of the Federal Reserve, a man (Gerard Butler) thinks the perpetrator is active in Europe and thus searches for him at the World Diamond District. Also with O’Shea Jackson Jr., Evin Ahmad, Salvatore Esposito, Orli Shuka, Cristian Solimeno and Nazmiye Oral. Directed by Christian Gudegast. Several lines of dialogue are spoken in Sicilian, Flemish and Hebrew with English subtitles. [Running Time: 2:24]

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera SEX/NUDITY 4

 – A security guard watches a pornographic movie and we see a glimpse of flesh without evident details and hear a man and a woman moaning sexually.
► A woman kisses a man on the cheek. A magazine photo shows a man and a woman embracing and kissing. A woman flirts with a man in a bar. A man and a woman dance and embrace in a dance club after drinking and smoking a drug (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details).
► A man calls a woman “a stripper.” A woman threatens to publicize what she calls a man’s “amateur porn” containing a video of him having sex with her when she was a suspect in one of his cases. A man says that he met another man on a gay cruise. Two men talk about their relationships ending and their visitation arrangements for their children. A man tells a woman, “I have no attraction to you.”
► A woman wears a low-cut top that reveals cleavage. A woman wears a low-cut blouse that reveals cleavage. Several magazine photos show women wearing bikinis and their cleavage, bare abdomens, backs and legs are seen. Women in a club wear low-cut dresses that reveal cleavage, bare abdomens and legs. Women wearing sequined skin suits dance on risers in a dance club. A woman’s sheer top reveals cleavage, and part of her breast and abdomen.

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera VIOLENCE/GORE 5

 – Two cars chase another car on narrow winding roads: the men inside the cars shoot at each other, one driver is struck (blood splatters) and the car drives over the ledge and down the mountainside, one car’s tire is blown out and it crashes into a wall and two men from the other car approach but are shot by a high-powered weapon and fall dead (we see blood on their bodies). Several men pull themselves up a cable to reach another floor and a pole breaks leaving a man dangling from the side of the building; he pulls himself up, is pursued by police, shoots one security guard in the chest (we see bullet holes but he is wearing a bulletproof vest) and the man jumps from a balcony and crashes onto a car parked below (he seems uninjured but he moans).
► Several men move through a building, across a roof and slide down to another floor where they search for a gem and they panic when the concierge returns and they are nearly caught.
► Police search for a car that speeds away from a building. Two cars speed out of a storage container and race toward an airplane in a hangar where the people in the cars shoot at men unloading the plane, handcuff them on the ground and roust the pilots off the plane while one man breaks into a secure container on the plane and steals a package. Two men force two other men into a car and speed away, the two men have bags over their heads, are placed on a ship that sails away and are threatened and pushed into the water; one man panics saying that he can’t swim back to shore because he has negative buoyancy and the other man says there are sharks in the area. A man in shackles is taken to a transport vehicle, two helicopters block the vehicle on the road and gunmen take the man, cutting his shackles and the door. Men in two cars speed while being chased by a police car; they get away and hide inside a storage container that is driven off. People douse a car with gasoline and light it on fire (we see the smoke).
► A man interrupts another man and a woman (the first man’s ex) dancing, he head-butts the man, they fight exchanging punches, other men become involved in the fight and they are ushered out of the bar and confronted by police officers outside. Police officers hold men at gunpoint, handcuff them and lead them away. Two men riding on motorized scooters crash into each other landing on the ground (one man has a bloody lip). People enter a secured vault in a diamond district, and people plan a break-in at a secured diamond district.
► A man hears noises in his apartment and finds a man eating and drinking; they talk briefly, one man draws a gun on the other man, and the other man shoves the table distracting the man, gets his gun and points it at him. A man gets into a car with a woman and tells her to follow another car; she does and the man leads her to a storage container where he questions her and threatens to ship her to China; the woman then threatens to reveal a video of the man having sex with her. Two men look at a very large gun in the back of a car.
► A man says that his father was killed right in front of him when he was a young boy. A man says that his father was shot in the hip when robbers came into his shop and thought he was going to shoot them. Several men argue about another man joining their team for a jewel heist. We hear a news report of a robbery in an airport. A man asks a woman, “Where are my two boyfriends?” A man says, “French food kinda sucks.” A man says that he is sick of being a hunter. A man says, “I tend to hurt people’s feelings.” People watch a soccer match and argue about offside calls, goals and the coach.
► A man tears a hand dryer off a wall in a restroom when it won’t work and throws court documents on the floor in frustration. A man urinates in a urinal and we hear a flush. A man eats a piece of paper after another man reads the information that was written on it.

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera LANGUAGE 10

 – About 113 F-words and its derivatives, 3 obscene hand gestures, 7 sexual references, 27 scatological terms, 12 anatomical terms, 6 mild obscenities, name-calling (stripper, rusty, sucks, honey trap, weird symbiosis, real gangster, dumb dumb, drama queen, crook, slave to greed, Marlboro Man, Fraulein), 1 religious profanity (GD), 7 religious exclamations (e.g. God, oh my God, Jesus, Holy [scatological term deleted]). | profanity glossary |

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera SUBSTANCE USE

 – People in a dance club drink and smoke cigarettes as well as hashish laced with ecstasy and they all appear inebriated. People in a bar scene drink cocktails as well as shots of liquor and beer, and the stages of a heist are named after beers, and a man drinks whiskey. A man smokes cigarettes in most scenes.

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Honor, respect, rules, robbery, mistakes, family, divorce, optics, smuggling, honesty, betrayal, guilt, Mafia, patterns, challenges, greed, stealing, Harry Houdini.

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera MESSAGE

 – Sometimes tigers can change their stripes.