I was rather impressed with DEN OF THIEVES. It's a complex, cognitive cops and robbers tale. It thoroughly takes its times establishing the worlds and lives of the lead cops and the lead robbers, sending the film to runtime of 140 minutes. And along with its attempt at some measure of realism, the obvious comp to DEN OF THIEVES is Michael Mann's 1995 masterheist-flick HEAT.
DEN OF THIEVES is good, but it's no HEAT--more of a comfortable LUKEWARMTH, if I…