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David Ayer's End of Watch renews and refreshes the now many decades-old "cop buddy story." What's delivered is insight into how far policing has changed -- particularly American policing in a quasi-guerilla urban war environment. We've come a long way since the first appearances of Twelve Angry Men and Adam-12, for instance. What's new is diversity -- and high-capacity weaponry. Sometimes, police-gang interactions look like civil war or revolution. But the police force better represents its constituent population at large than it has traditionally, even in the recent past.
End of Watch revolves around two cops (played superbly by Michael Peña and Jake Gyllenhaal) and their work and social circles (Natalie Martinez, Anna Kendrick, America Ferrera and others). It's not a veteran-rookie tale, but rather a two partners plus everyone they know microcosm. The cop-to-cop banter is particularly noteworthy, in some ways the heart of it all. Nifty-fifty film -- dig city, man!
Today's Rune: Signals.
3 comments:
Lana and I just watched this tonight and we both liked it very well. I agree with you on the banter, and it was kind of cool to end it that way.
Cool, man ~ cheers ~!
Erik, those are not my typical movie favorites but the men in my life would probably love it. Jake G. is worth a shake, tho!
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