Writer / director David Ayer has had the theme of men doing their duty to varying degrees running through his work, from his script for Training Day to the gritty
cop movie End of Watch.
Not exact matches
Clashes between actresses on the set of Jenny's
movie somehow lead to a night of lesbian Turkish oil wrestling that
ends with a visit from the
cops; the hard - case colonel in charge of prosecuting Tasha's case arrives on base.
I think this
movie has similarities to James vehicle «Mall
Cop» in the sense that both films start off really well with a nice chuckle level but
end up going too far.
Nerve - rattling in the best way, the sharp, visceral urban police procedural
End of Watch is one of the best American
cop movies I've seen in a long time.
It's entirely possible that writer / director David Ayer has crafted the best
cop movie of all time with
End of Watch.
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The
movie has some well - executed unexpected twists and turns, Hugo Weaving takes a devilishly delightful turn as a corrupt
cop, and the
movie has a surprising emotional swell in the
end.
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Since 2012's
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End of Watch,» Gyllenhaal has been on a creative roll between «Prisoners,» «Nightcrawler,» «Southpaw» and the upcoming «Everest.»
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Of course, as anyone who has ever seen a
cop movie already knows, lots of people will
end up dying today, and Talley will spend the rest of the
movie trying to rinse their blood off his hands.
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Usually these figures represent typical
movie archetypes: hero, killer, almost - retired
cop, but this
movie is not about fairness and happy
endings or the predictable.
Truffaut, who conceived the original story for Breathless, described how, when at the
end of that
movie Belmondo is shot, Godard wanted one of the
cops who's responsible to shout to the other «Quick, in the spine!»
And Ayer, despite miscalculating pretty much everything about Suicide Squad, is REALLY good at
cop movies — he made
End of Watch, and the underrated Street Kings.
Taylor and Zavala fit the template of the «
cop buddy
movie,» but «
End of Watch» goes so much deeper than that.
By the
end of the
movie Let's Be
Cops does take a turn toward the absurd and at times goes completely over-the-top unbelievable, but I laughed out loud enough times to say that it was an enjoyable buddy comedy.
It's my pleasure to admit I was wrong, as
End of Watch is one of the better
cop movies to come out in some time.
That's the
end of the
movie, I'm sure the
cops show up two seconds later, DCF is there, and they take her.
Praised by no less an authority as director WIlliam Friedkin as the best
cop movie he'd ever seen,
End of Watch was one of the underseen delights of 2012 and a great new addition to Netflix — Jake Cole
This buddy
movie /
cop comedy takes its cue from such police - dog stories as «Turner and Hooch» — which it directly references — as well as the 1990 TV pilot «Poochinski,» in which the ghost of a murdered detective
ends up inhabiting a gassy English bulldog.
Most of the
movie takes place over the course of one fateful evening, where the local mob, or at least what appears to be them,
ends up killing a room full of undercover
cops.
Though Gone Baby Gone shares with Mystic River the usual Lehanian touches — the Dorchester setting, the hard - bitten
cops, the imperiled children — in the
end, the Clint Eastwood
movie it resembles most closely is Million Dollar Baby, another film that concludes with a ruthless ethical dilemma.
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One thing he would
cop to was a shot towards the
end of the
movie where we see the mailbox that says «10 Cloverfield.»
Not even Edward Norton — who elevates the quality of the picture every time he's onscreen — can save it from mediocrity, because when all is said and done, «Pride and Glory» is just another dirty
cop movie with a lame
ending.
It's a lovely portrait of male friendship; considering «Shaun of the Dead» and «The World's
End» so frequently put Frost and Pegg at odds, it's nice to see their characters so thoroughly on the same team and enjoying one another's company, delighting in their killer
cop movie one - liners and the intense action that invariably breaks out near the film's climax.
The company will have footage from two fall releases: promising semi-found-footage
cop movie «
End of Watch» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena (who'll both be there), and «Silent Hill: Revelation,» the belated and unnecessary 3D sequel to the video game adaptation.
So I'll still go with that
ending: I like the bookends of Chris surviving an encounter with the
cops thanks to weird third - party intervention at the
movie's beginning and finale, and I don't think Peele's sociological acuteness is dulled by his declining to
end on a note of futility.