End of Watch
2012 Directed by David Ayer
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Every moment of your life they stand watch
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel, during a routine traffic stop.
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It's really disappointing to me that a film like End of Watch is a better director away from being a really great movie. And I mean a REALLY GREAT MOVIE. Because if it weren't for the poor directorial choices that brought me out of the film, this easily could have been the best cop movie for the modern era. It's that good.
So what are the film's strengths that make it just that good? The writing is surprisingly good coming from David Ayer, because here he's finally learned to strip his film of useless plot details and actually give us a simplified cop film, and allows us to become more involved with the characters, and just see events of the…
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This movie is so good that I'm using this quote as the epilogue for my monograph (or term paper, thesis, I don't know the right name in english for that ending of graduation essay):
"I am the police, and I'm here to arrest you. You've broken the law. I did not write the law. I may disagree with the law but I will enforce it. No matter how you plead, cajole, beg or attempt to stir my sympathy. Nothing you do will stop me from placing you in a steel cage with gray bars. If you run away I will chase you. If you fight me I will fight back. If you shoot at me I will shoot back. By…
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"I am the police, and I'm here to arrest you. You've broken the law. I did not write the law. I may disagree with the law but I will enforce it. No matter how you plead, cajole, beg or attempt to stir my sympathy. Nothing you do will stop me from placing you in a steel cage with gray bars. If you run away I will chase you. If you fight me I will fight back. If you shoot at me I will shoot back. By law I am unable to walk away. I am a consequence. I am the unpaid bill. I am fate with a badge and a gun. Behind my badge is a heart like yours. I…
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No one warned me that tears were possible at the end of watch.
Buddy cop done right.
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A script with huge pacing issues, penned by the man who directed it as well prevent this from being an absolutely fantastic action film. What remains, however, is a film with flashes of brilliance stretched so thinly it loses any impact and negates most good things in it.
The first act is great. It establishes its characters wonderfully and uses the natural charm of its two leading men to great effect. Their banter feels real, their friendship genuine. So far so good, two characters worth investing in. The plot they strut around in isn't that original, telegraphing and foreshadowing enough to predict how things will play out. I didn't mind at first as I was enjoying the company.
The thing…
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Film #39 of No Rewatch November
Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena are the best on screen couple of the year. End of Watch delivers this totally raw and uncooked look at being a cop, but it is also a pretty great buddy cop film as well. The flow of the film is outstanding, with all the events playing out naturally/perfectly. I loved this.
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Wildly entertaining, but this Training Day/Brokeback Mountain mash-up isn't substantive enough to resonate longer than a few hours. While the stylized direction and strong acting (especially from Michael Pena and Anna Kendrick) are huge assets, the emotional resonance is too cloying and manipulative to be effective.
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Michael Peña was my favorite part about this movie. The camera work was very different from what I'm used to but I liked it! Makes you feel as if you were right with them.
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The chemistry between the cops saves it, but the cop out ending (what? what? ... oh goddamn it) and a tone that tries waaaaaay too hard held it back for me.
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Remek film két rendőr acélos kapcsolatáról, hogy minden műszak után épségben térjenek haza. Ám nem néha mindenkinek akad egy túl nagy falat.
Remekül épül fel a történet, a karakterek kidolgozottak. Nagyszerűen mutatja be a két rendőr kapcsolatát és azt, hogy odakint egy járőr csak a tárásra számíthat.Mindenképpen ajánlom megtekintésre.
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When your script is nothing but an enormous pileup of all the macho bromance cop-clichées known to man, I can sort of understand the impulse to employ the "edgy" visuals. The problem is, said edgy aesthetics turn out to be of the Youtube/home video/shaky cam kind. The result is kinda like trying to put lipstick on a pig, if the lipstick was made of shit.
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A powerful story portrayed in an interesting way. It felt very real.
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Very intense crime thriller,Good film highly underrated , i never even heard of it, thank god for letterboxd.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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I'm getting tired of all these films being shot with shaky fucking hand held cameras "films like REC, Cloverfield etc". I get it it's supposed to add to the "realism" but when a movie is so out there it doesn't help. The shaky hand held camera doesn't make an over the top shoot out scene look more real it just makes it look cheap and awful. The shaky hand held cameras only really work with documentaries it didn't work with End of Watch. Please stop Hollywood, please I beg you stop shooting films with shaky hand held cameras and if you do at least shot the whole film like that not just bits of it.
Another thing if they were…