{"id":3582,"date":"2016-07-08T16:17:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T20:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3582"},"modified":"2025-10-26T18:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:34:11","slug":"end-of-watch-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=3582","title":{"rendered":"End of Watch-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

End of Watch-2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director David Ayer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Pena<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott\u2019s Review #447<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reviewed July 8, 2016<\/p>\n

Grade: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n

End of Watch (2012) impressed me much more than I was expecting. What I expected was a safe, by-the-numbers, buddy\/action movie, since it was rather promoted as such from the previews.<\/p>\n

It was worlds better than that and threw me for a loop, in a good way.<\/p>\n

The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena as two detectives patrolling the streets of grizzled central Los Angeles, which are riddled with drug and gang violence.<\/p>\n

The viewer is brought along for the ride as we see a day in the life if you will, of their cop beat.<\/p>\n

The one knock I’ll give the film is the implausibility factor of a cop videotaping everything. This seems silly and unrealistic. \u00a0Wouldn’t he be incredibly distracted? That said, some of the filmings were amazing, including the opening sequence.<\/p>\n

The film contains a realistic, grittiness to it, and the Los Angeles locale is very effective.<\/p>\n

End of Watch (2012) feels painstakingly real, is not always happy, and the dynamic between Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena is evident and their friendship feels real.<\/p>\n

The movie feels like a day in the life of an LA cop, sparing no edgy detail, and does not gloss over the lifestyle as many cop films choose to do.<\/p>\n

Independent Spirit Award Nominations:\u00a0<\/strong>Best Supporting Male-Michael Pena, Best Cinematography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

End of Watch-2012 Director David Ayer Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Pena Scott\u2019s Review #447 Reviewed July 8, 2016 Grade: B+ End of Watch (2012) impressed me much more than I was expecting. What I expected was a safe, by-the-numbers, buddy\/action movie, since it was rather promoted as such from the previews. It was worlds better … Continue reading End of Watch-2012<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,151,2914,2870,225,3500,8371,192,3501,2452,2365],"tags":[75,152,2923,2874,226,3502,8375,193,3503,2455,2366],"class_list":["post-3582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-films","category-actionfilms","category-america-ferrera","category-anna-kendrick","category-crime-dramas","category-david-ayer","category-david-harbour","category-dramas","category-frank-grillo","category-jake-gyllenhaal","category-michael-pena","tag-2012-movie-reviews","tag-action-films","tag-america-ferrera","tag-anna-kendrick","tag-crime-dramas","tag-david-ayer","tag-david-harbour","tag-dramas-2","tag-frank-grillo","tag-jake-gyllenhaal","tag-michael-pena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3582"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19936,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions\/19936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}