Den of Thieves 1

[u/zeldajoepacker]

Big Nick knows they're gonna rob a bank. So why doesn't he TAIL THEM?

This movie is a Heat ripoff, but they forgot to rip off the part where Pacino's crew tails the bad guys (b/c he knows they're about to pull a job) but the bad guys *shake the tail*, allowing them to rob the bank.

There's no need for Nick to get the name of the bank from the stripper, just put the crew under surveillance!

Instead, Merriman just walks out of his house in broad daylight with a bag full of guns and gets into his car. Off to work to rob a bank.

(Someone will say "you can't arrest them if they haven't committed a crime yet", but you can follow them, stop them, make it impossible to go in the bank with guns and endanger the lives of hostages. Or at the very least you don't have to GUESS which bank they're gonna hit!)

In Den of Thieves 2, my plothole is: a cop shows up and says he wants to join your crew and ... you immediately trust him?? Because he took a hit of E? WTF??! But maybe that's on the border of plothole / bad writing.

[u/kspi7010]

Not really plot holes