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End Of Watch -- Movie Review #JPMN

3,360 views · Published 16 February 2013 · 3:28 · Indexed 22 September 2026

Channel: Movie Night · 2013 · Film & Animation

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• End Of Watch -- Enjoyable bittersweet realism. Distracting presentation, 8/10.

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Incorporating viewer comments and tweets, your host and film critic Jonathan Paula reviews everything from opening day releases, recent DVDs, upcoming trailers, and classics from years past. Along with your votes, each film is scored on the "Rate-O-Matic" for a 1-10 ranking. A "Five Word Summary" quickly encapsulates each review while "Factor Facts" highlight a film's best and worst features in ten key categories. Each "Quick Review" is an excerpt from a full episode, which air on the JPizzle1122 channel every Friday, November through May.

Born in February 1986, Jonathan Paula is a professional YouTuber and creator of the hit web series, "Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This?". In April 2006 he founded Jogwheel Productions, a new media production company that specializes in web video. He has been reviewing films since 2003, and professionally since 2009. Jon graduated from Emerson College in 2008 with a degree in Television Production / Radio Broadcasting. He currently lives in Rockingham, NH with his wife Rebecca.

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~~ Review Script ~~
This David Ayer thriller drama was released in September of 2012, and eventually grossed over fifty million dollars against its small seven million dollar budget. Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena star as LAPD cops in what is easily the best police movies in years. Opening with a gripping first-person chase sequence, the basic and familiar plot follows these two best friends and partners as they patrol one of the most dangerous precincts in Los Angeles... slowly uncovering a massive human trafficking ring in the process. Inherently though, all of the exciting shoot-outs, arrests, and car chases - which are arrestingly filmed - are but a mere backdrop to the real story of friendship, and defending your partner. It's here where the film excels: Jake and Michael have a tremendous on-screen rapport, and the highs and lows of their male-bonding are incredibly believable. At first their uncompromising cop-mentality makes for some barely redeemable characters who bend the law, and beat-up on criminals - luckily the expert writing and dialogue easily humanize them to a point where you're comfortable rooting for them to succeed. Preparing for their demanding roles, the two dedicated actors rode-along with the real LAPD for five months prior to filming... even witnessing a real murder their first day. In a smaller supporting role, Anna Kendrick is adorable as always, commendably portraying the love interest despite having few lines. With potential danger around every turn, this 109-minute film is dripping with strong tension and intense nail-biting thrills. Dropping the F-word an astonishing 326 times, sixth all time for a movie, this R-rated caper is decidedly for adults only: the themes, violence, and dialogue are treated with unabashed realism. Inexplicably, this well-paced motion picture is quasi-filmed with a mixture of in-world cameras: ones the characters hold and bring around with them, security cameras, mounted dash cams, and seemingly, some pretty conventional angles too. This presentation style is entirely unnecessary, and only serves to diminish the effectiveness of the powerful story, reducing the movie to a "found footage" documentary. Sporadic use of in-world music sets the mood perfectly in a number of key emotional scenes, and all of the actors easily hit their marks. The inevitable ending is truly heartbreaking although a bit heavy-handed, with all of the proceedings capped off by a bittersweet epilogue that will surely elicit a strong response from anyone watching. Effectively bouncing from light-hearted bromance jokes to horrifying life-threatening situations and gory violence, Ayers paints a realistic and entertaining portrait of LA street cops. "End Of Watch", "Enjoyable bittersweet realism. Distracting presentation".
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