The globe-trotting caper “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera,” a sequel to the schlocky 2018 motion movie, is a convoluted film bolstered by entertaining set items.

In “Pantera,” Los Angeles sheriff Huge Nick (Gerard Butler) travels to Good, France, to seek out the professional thief Donnie Wilson (O’Shea Jackson Jr.), whom he suspects was the mastermind behind the Federal Reserve Financial institution theft that unfolded within the authentic film. This time, Nick tracks Donnie down to not arrest him however to affix his prison enterprise, the Panthers, and stage a heist of the impenetrable World Diamond Heart.

Nick and Donnie’s sudden friendship offers the writer-director Christian Gudegast’s movie a shaggy hangout film really feel not not like “Quick & Livid” (2009). Cop and robber occasion collectively, share their pained again tales and unoriginal jokes about French delicacies and evade a neighborhood police squad often called Pantera. A tacked-on subplot — a Sardinian mobster calls for that Donnie return a stolen diamond — and the break-in’s detailed planning push this macho movie alongside.

In its second hour the movie locks in. Robbers methodically snake by means of the diamond middle below a time crunch. An exciting getaway automotive chase by means of the mountains recollects Michael Mann’s “Warmth” because the digital camera closes in on Nick, hanging from Donnie’s automotive window and taking pictures vengeful former accomplices.

“Den of Thieves 2: Pantera” isn’t groundbreaking, but it surely delivers what it guarantees: lovable scoundrels buying and selling bullets and traversing borders.

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
Rated R for violence and language. Operating time: 2 hours 24 minutes. In theaters.