End of Watch (2012)

LastCaress1972 August 11, 2013

Officers Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Zavala (Michael Peña) are LA beat cops, partnered up a long time. We watch them in action via a number of set pieces, and see that they're cynical enough to interpret the rules as necessary but still by a long, long stretch good and decent cops that will risk their lives in carrying out their duties at a moment's notice. Zavala is already blissfully happily married with a baby on the way, Taylor has just met a sweet Irish gal and over the course of the film we see their relationship blossom and grow. These two men are like the closest of brothers. It's all good to see. One day, their dedication to the job causes them to stumble in over their pay grade into a much larger drug cartel and human trafficking operation than regular beat cops would usually encounter. Homeland Security agents appear, having apparently already been monitoring the situation, …

Gimly August 25, 2019

★ 6/10

A good duo at the forefront of this thing, but I don't especially care for the half-assed documentary schematic or, you know... cops. _Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a _

signsoflife January 2, 2026

★ 7/10

Realistically, a decent movie, with a lot of odd choices. The main attraction (aside from its cast—Anna Kendrick is the only reason I watched this), is its cinematography: originally a premise of a buddy cop movie made out of bits and pieces of self taped/body cam/found footage style videos, yet, there is an omnipresent, shaky camerawork that takes you away from that in order to properly showcase the environment and depth of these developing characters and their stories, while still trying to mimic these are natural, spontenous, humanly shot moments for the most part—and, at some point, even that is lost. Simply, the cinematography is inconsistent, and loosely justified for the case of the self recorded... vlogs (what're the chances of both cops and gangs vlogging their own confrontation?). Makes it lose a little bit of its seriousness by the time one gets to the end. That, and the i…