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Consider a scene in an Orlando hotel room, in which Ulee meets with Eddie (Steven Flynn) and Ferris (Dewey Weber), the two thugs who wish to extract from him a hidden stash of loot.
For whatever reason, true military leaders are generally less effectual than plain old thugs and zealots (although their political opponents get just as dead).
The nonstate actors range from 10 cent thugs such as Miller, who has merely shanghaied a small island, to world-class dastards such as Bin Laden, who runs a supranational organization, has loyalty to no government, owns a vast fortune and an armory of high-tech weapons, and is engaged in an elaborate conspiracy so secretive that we were not aware of it till it smacked us in the head.
Den of Thieves required even more intelligence work, as well as author James B. Stewart's master touch at cutting through the multimillion-dollar public-relations campaign--still ongoing--that tried to make Michael Milken look like Albert Schweitzer pursued recklessly by jackbooted government thugs.
"American theater has surrendered to thugs," charges the New York Times ' Frank Rich.