End of Watch (2012)

as far as buddy cop movies go, this is pretty average. there are far better movies of this genre which have more compelling plot, characters and dialogue. the best part of this movie would be the relationship between the two main characters, and it is a really good duo. they have great and realistic charisma, but even so the individual characters lack any development or substance. most the time which could have been used to develop the characters, it needlessly interjected their wives and girlfriends. i get thats a major part of life, but those people are irrelevant to the story. you really don't know who either one of these guys are on their own.the plot is pretty dumb, and thats quite generous. like in the beginning the hispanic cop just fights a suspected criminal because he got heated over an offhanded comment. its really dumb, especially like when i said before there is no character development so it's not really believable the cop would behave like that in the first place. if that happened in another movie, where they established the cop was hotheaded, it would be different...but they don't, so it comes off as really forced and stupid. a lot of this movie's plot suffers from that, especially the criminals. the antagonists are forced to play a very one dimensional stereotype of the hispanic gangbanger, so their personalities aren't convincing either. the plot just reinforces it, and by the end it's just extremely tired.so, as far as a decent movie goes, yeah...its decent. its just not that great either.

Past reference: I've heard of movies that had a lot of cussing and were actually funny: Harlem Nights. I've heard of movies that had a lot of cussing and were actually pretty good horror films: Nightmare on Elm Street 3. I've heard of movies that had a lot of cussing and could hold your interest or had an invaluable message: American History X or Dark Blue. I've heard of movies with a lot of cussing where most of the bad guys get caught or get caught up and the movie is a quality one: Goodfellas or Casino. This one opens with probably more cussing than any of those movies have early on before they can even get the movie off the ground! The cops(ALL OF THEM) cuss like gangsters and the gangsters cuss like well gangsters and nothing is going on besides an amateur youtube video op early on! Video producers, script writers, actors/actresses, and directors just don't get it; if actors cuss a lot(esp. without anything else going on), some people see your movie as classless or even a confusing pile of dung! Why not eliminate the cussing as much as possible and leave it up to people's imagination?! Mature people know some people cuss a lot, but why burden us with this and not cover it like you do in almost all love scenes?! Even if a movie is an all time great movie, cussing makes me just cringe and not want to watch anymore or for a long, long while or again! I definitely am FAR less likely to recommend a movie if there's a lot of cussing! Why cater to people that aren't discerning when most of these people watch LMN and used to watch network movies on movie nights. Therefore, if you look only at the discerning people(people that care about morality), then the people that don't discern(people not caring about morality) fall into place. That's because anyone can and will watch a movie with morality in mind if it's a good movie, but some people WILL NOT WATCH a movie that is a moral graveyard even if it's good! Then, there's more recommendation coming from more people, too, if it is both a good and moral movie. Most Lifetime, LMN, old network movies, etc.(Bitter Blood; Love, Lies, and Murder; Too Close to Home; Fat Like Me; Odd Girl Out; and Orphan and Derailed{the latter 2 were even shown in family friendly versions yet probably losing no value over their Hollywood versions} are among those) in a collection that are also "good" far exceed HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, etc. "greatest" collection(Harlem Nights, Good Fellas, Casino, Dark Blue, and American History X are among them). With the former group, there's no cringe factor(your conscience) while you watch them and you can watch most of them with your kids(except the oversexed or gay ones; the gay ones I would not watch at all). My comparison was between the cussing movies and not to show you that it can be done and well. Also, there are movies like Enemy of the State, Enough, and Training Day that are fringe movies that I own, enjoy, and watch. Still, movies that resemble "End of Watch" in any way should not be done in the future or toned down quite a bit! Hey, I'm all for all movie companies deciding to "network" it! For me, I bought it due to the great reviews trying to find a new movie, but it--like so many others--is more than likely trash! I could not get past the tsunami of cussing early on! I might try to stomach it to see if the movie has any redeemable qualities, but I SINCERELY REGRET THAT I BOUGHT THIS(EVEN FOR LESS THAN $4) AND WOULD NOT RECOMMEND UNLESS YOU CAN ACTUALLY THINK WITH CUSSING COMING AT YOU INCESSANTLY! STILL, THAT DOESN'T SAY MUCH FOR YOUR CONSCIENCE AND IT IS A CRY FOR Christian HELP. I think I'll start going to youtube and at least streaming the first 20 minutes(slow connection) and watching it before buying in the future despite seeing great reviews from 3 review sites and saying NO to hurriedly buying movies without scanning them first. I ONLY WENT THROUGH MAYBE 20 MINUTES AND IT WAS FULL OF CUSSING(HEED THAT 17 YR OLD WARNING AT THE VERY BEGINNING, PLEASE) AND WITHOUT MUCH GOING ON AT THAT TIME, TOO, MAKING IT WORSE THAN KICKBOXER 2(IF THE MOVIE KEPT PROGRESSING LIKE THAT)! I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SAY THAT A MOVIE COULD POTENTIALLY WORSE OFF THAN KB2!

movie was really really great! i loved it. i don't know who reviews these, but this flick deserved a ten! i loved it so much i went to amazon and ebay to buy it on DVD-none for sale! i had borrowed my bestie which she got out of the 3$ box at walmart! a great$3.00 buy! get this movie! awesome!

So much potential yet such a crap movie. The leads are great and I'm always happy to see Frank Grillo. If only their acting were framed by a decent story. As it is, it's a bunch of people stumbling through cliché after cliché. The movie follows a pair of LAPD cops doing their thing. They shoot bad men and save kids. They're lenient towards a certain drug dealer, because, you know, these guys are cool and likable. Doing their duty they stumble upon the evil deeds of criminals who are perhaps too big for mere cops to handle. Did I mention just how much inadvertent stumbling upon major criminal activities happens in this movie? Maybe that's an LAPD thing. There's one scene in particular, where Frank Grillo's character drunkenly talks to younger men in uniform, where I just couldn't bear the mind-boggling stereotypes. Someone give this man some decent material to act in instead of wasting his talent like this. For all the screen time they get it would've also helped for the Mexican gang members to be portrayed as more than just a bunch of swearing caricatures. Excessive violence and casual sexism is everywhere. It reminded me a lot of Training Day in that way; this movie's writer- director turned out to be the writer on that movie too. And then there's the documentary-style. Maybe it could've worked if it wasn't so illogical and inconsistent. But it didn't.