| Users | 4.5 | |
| Reviewer | 3.5 | |
| Overall | 3.8 |
This collection of gritty crime-thrillers starring Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr. blurs the lines between cops and criminals, friends and enemies. Presented in mint-condition 4K for the first time, and featuring Dolby Vision®, the Unrated Director’s Cut of Den of Thieves follows “Big Nick” O’Brien (Butler) and his elite unit of L.A. County Sheriffs – the Regulators – as they collide with the Outlaws, ex-military members with a seemingly impossible objective: robbing the Federal Reserve Bank of Los Angeles. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, also in 4K with Dolby Vision,finds O’Brien hunting across Europe for Outlaw Donnie (Jackson), who’s caught up with the infamous Panther mafia and their plot to rob the world’s largest diamond exchange.
| Action | 100% |
| Crime | 56% |
| Heist | 31% |
| Drama | Insignificant |
Video codec: HEVC / H.265
Video resolution: 4K (2160p)
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: Dolby Atmos
English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
French: Dolby Atmos
French: Dolby TrueHD 7.1
Spanish: Dolby Atmos
Spanish: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English SDH, Spanish
Blu-ray Disc
Four-disc set (4 BDs)
Digital copy
4K Ultra HD
Region A (B, C untested)
| Movie | 3.0 | |
| Video | 5.0 | |
| Audio | 5.0 | |
| Extras | 4.0 | |
| Overall | 3.5 |
Lionsgate's boutique e-tailer Lionsgate Limited has been offering releases for several months now, but there has been a rather widely variant approach to those releases in terms of packaging and/or swag as well as whether or not any given film has had a previous 4K release. So far Lionsgate Limited's releases have included everything from The Conversation 4K to a more recent array of Quentin Tarantino films, to last month's The Third Man 4K. This particular release is in its own way sui generis, at least within the confines of this still nascent marketing franchise, in that it offers SteelBook editions of the two Den of Thieves films in both 1080 and 4K UHD presentations (the SteelBooks are themselves enclosed in a vault like case with an L shaped cover that snaps closed). However, kind of interestingly if perhaps a little bafflingly, this release is the only way to see the first film in 4K as of the writing of this review, whereas the second film had a pretty recent (as of the writing of this review) "wide" 4K release in standard packaging. To answer a question frequently raised with a lot of Lionsgate 4K releases (not necessarily just those put out by Lionsgate Limited), the 1080 disc included in the first Den of Thieves SteelBook is a "legacy" disc.


Video quality is assessed in the above linked reviews.

Audio quality is assessed in the above linked reviews.

On disc supplements are detailed in the above linked reviews, and those reviews also feature descriptions of the SteelBook packaging. The slipbox which is cheekily designed to resemble a vault measures approximately 5 3/4" wide by 7 1/8" tall by 1 1/2" deep. A digital copy for the collection is included.

The first film is arguably too long and padded for its own good, and the second film has a pretty precipitous example of "sophomore slump", but both of the 4K UHD presentations are aces in both the video and audio departments. Lionsgate Limited's release also offers two nicely designed SteelBooks enclosed in a kind of cheeky slipbox representation of a vault. With caveats about the second film in particular noted and at least for collectors of specialty releases and/or SteelBook packaging, Recommended.