End of Watch

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  • Opened September 21, 2012 
  • 1 hr 49 min
  • R | Sexual References, Pervasive Language, Some Disturbing Images, Some Drug Use and Strong Violence

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says not for kids. More on child suitability

  • Young Los Angeles police officers Taylor and Zavala patrol the city's meanest streets of south central Los Angeles. Giving the story a gripping, first-person immediacy, the action unfolds through footage from the handheld HD cameras of the police officers, gang members, surveillance cameras, and citizens caught in the line of fire to create a riveting portrait of the city's most dangerous corners, the cops who risk their lives there every day, and the price they and their families are forced to pay. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick, Frank Grillo, America Ferrera, Cody Horn
  • Director: David Ayer
  • Genres: Drama

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End of Watch, but could watch over and over

by Darkola

This was a really good movie all around, beginning with the acting, both Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña did a great job, very believable characters, who as partners, became vey much in the same...

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Another Great Cop Movie

by kodak5-0

If you like cop movies, are a cop, or even in hopes of being a cop one day, this is a movie that you must see. Shows you the life of what law enforcement officers face each day. Though some of the...

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Very entertaining

by catski66

Kind of what I expected from the trailer. Good dialogue between the two main characters and lots of good laughs in between some good action scenes. Definitely worth seeing...

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Amy Biancolli

The best scenes are filmed inside the cruiser, dashboard shots that face inward instead of out, catching Gyllenhaal and Peña in moments so playful and true they make all other buddy cops look bogus by comparison. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly
| Lisa Schwarzbaum

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. Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Steven Rea

David Ayer, the writer of "Training Day," director of "Street Kings," writer/director of "Harsh Times," does not make movies about princesses with witchy curses, about yuppie commitment-phobes, about talking plush toys. His territory is narrow, but he owns it: cops, in Los Angeles. Read full review

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New York Daily News
| Elizabeth Weitzman

If Ayer had taken as much care with his bad guys as he does with his leads (and their deftly sketched wives and colleagues, played by Anna Kendrick, America Ferrera and Frank Grillo, among others), he might have crafted a seamless picture. Read full review

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Michael Pena in "End of Watch."