Saw "End of Watch" as a Netflix rental, it's a 2012 movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña as L.A. cops. It's a good flick, very raw and energetic, visceral. The movie is largely hand-held with a consumer video camera feel which is worked into the story with characters videotaping themselves and those around them. The quality is better than consumer video cameras so it's a case of high-end technology made to look a little ghetto.
It's a great cop-buddy movie with a thrilling storyline and lots of energy and action. It has a fresh feel to it and keeps you involved throughout. I like this one. I'd been meaning to watch it for a long time and it was worth the wait.
Jake Gyllenhaal is having an interesting career. He started out playing sort of off-beat outsider parts, then started doing more macho stuff. That started when he bulked up to do some fantasy thing, I forget the title, where he played a sort of swash-buckling character I think. I didn't see the movie but I was surprised to see the change in his persona. Since then he's been playing more "manly" roles, but he does so with more humanity than other action movie actors.
This is a great buddy movie with a convincing and fun rapport between the main characters, and a lot of effective humor. Gritty, raw, funny, and more "real" in feel than most other Hollywood movies. I like this one a lot.
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