Jun 12 2013 06:41 AM
End of Watch(2012)
Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peņa 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 Peņa 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.