Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

merelyaninnuendo End Of WatchThe affection of the writer; David Ayer, towards the suffering and the routine that police goes through is crystal clear in here as the urge to install intense high pitched dramatic sequences is something that helps in its account but also wears it down. David Ayer's smart concept to project it through each perspective is admirable but unfortunately doesn't go as anticipated because of its wafer thin script and undercooked characters (not the lead ones). Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena are brilliant in their parallel lead role and so is Anna Kendrick in a supporting role although she doesn't have much to factor in, among with other cast. End Of Watch has its strength (the chemistry between the lead actors) and moments (the burning house sequence) where the audience cannot not be moved by it, but the series of events feels redundant in the end as it fails to bind it all.

georgevessiere One of the best films I've watched in my entire life. Acting is brilliant. It could be way darker to fit the true image of extreme poverty, violence, and despair of the neighborhoods cops are patrolling in. It's a tribute to humanity in an inhuman, lost and socially abandoned society, ruled by gangs and drugs. It's also a beautiful tribute to the cops who give their lives to maintain some order in those terrifying places. They deserve our gratitude and respect. A A++++ film.

dromasca The fact that David Ayer is both the sole author of the script and the director of 'End of Watch' is quite interesting. If two different individuals would have written the script and directed the movie, respectively, I could have commented that the thin story written by the script writer had to be balanced by the film director, and he picked an interesting manner of filming based on some not very solid pretext in order to achieve what is an interesting movie. As the two are one - David Ayer - I am guessing that the idea about how to make this movie came first and the story was built around it. Of course, this is just a guess.Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Mike Zavala (Michael Peña) and a couple of patrolling cops in the violent low-class districts of LA. One is a WASP, the other is Mexican. They are exemplary cops, actually too good to be true, the kind of cops that save kids from burning houses at the risk of their lives and get decorated for their deeds. They are more than friends, they are brothers, share all secrets, dance at each other's weddings and hold new born kids. They live and fight crime together and are ready to die together. And death eventually comes after them. Violent and unfair as they live in a violent and unfair world. Ours.All this is nice, but, frankly speaking, it does not make for a too interesting story. Actually what really happens on screen is not too much and it's also very predictable. I could put a rather safe bet that at the end one of the cops dies, the other survives to see his funeral, the only question is which fate each of the two will be to occur. There is actually so little action in the film that the script-writer / director added a few minutes at the end describing facts having happened previous to the ending that do not add anything to the story.With no real action to put on screen David Ayer tries to catch our attention with describing the details of the relationship between the two cops and with their colleagues, in the style made famous by 'The Wire' TV series. I like this part, which was supported by the excellent acting of Jake Gyllenhaal (one of my preferred actors) and Michael Peña . The second film directing trick is to use hand-held camera for part of the time. The pretext is the passion of one of the cops for documenting his work, which is mirrored by a similar hobby of one of the gangsters. It is this kind of technology-based detail which became obsolete one or two years after the time the film was made (2012) when any smartphone became a hand-held video camera with social networking becoming a repository and mean of communicating and transferring video files. We are left with an experiment which does not harm too much and makes the viewing of the film more interesting.At the end, I feel like 'End of Watch' despite its qualities risks to disappoint the two categories of viewers that it seems to target. Action movies fans will be disappointed by the too short and too simple cop story. Quality cop dramas fans will be disappointed because the heroes do not enjoy enough time on screen to develop their friendship and make a difference in the violent world that they deal with on daily basis. Both claims could have been solved by a more complex and interesting story and script, but 'End of Watch' did not have one.

joselopez-28875 "A total of 1,439 law enforcement's officers died in the line of duty during the past ten years, an average of one death every 61 hours or 144 per year. There were 123 law enforcement officers killed I the line of duty in 2015." The movie "End of Watch" which is an action/drama movie is one of the best action movies I have seen that have cops as the main characters. Michael Pena and Jake Gyllenhaal are Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala the two cops in the movie. The movie takes place in the city of Los Angeles, California. The two police officers Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala are best friends that take on some Mexican Cartels. This movie was better than I expected. I liked how the movie was filmed like a documentary; it made it seem more realistic. It also had a little of every genre because it had some comedy. A scene that I thought was funny was one that included Mike Zavala and Orozco. Mike Zavala; "Orozco, you been working out?" Orozco; "Yeah, with your mom." Good movies always have more than one genre, it makes it more interesting. Anther think I liked about this movie is that the director David Ayer made it seem so real and showed a different side of police officers and what they go through every day in the streets. For these reasons "End of Watch" gets Five Stars from me. 10/10