End of Watch (2012)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Harrowing, shaky and often spectacularly violent hijinx await crime-fighting buddy cops assigned a beat in South Central.

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[metirish]

Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pe�a play LAPD officers who's beat is South Central Los Angeles. The movie opens with a car chase that Gyllenhaal is filming on a hand held for a project, this is how we see a lot of the movie, through that hand held, I liked this approach.

Gyllenhaal and Pe�a are excellent in their roles playing best buddy partners, some great in car dialogue , the movie moves along nicely , a lot of mundane calls mixed in with some heroic life saving.....then they step on the toes of a Mexican drug cartel......the final scenes are brutal and I cared a lot about this two by then....I liked the movie a lot. I guess if I were Mexican I might bemoan the usual gang banger stereotype.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

This review has already been posted and ignored: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=19104

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I liked it too, but was less convinced they needed to do it "found footage" style. Really powerful flick with some spectacular violence for 2 regular beat cops.

[metirish]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: This review has already been posted and ignored: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=19104

I searched two different ways , keywords - "Topics title only" and "Post subjects and message text", nothing came up. Search n here is very frustrating.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yup. I only found it googlestyle

[Edgy MD]

Merged.