‘End Of Watch’ Trailer - Jake Gyllenhaal And Michael Peña Patrol The Mean Streets Of South Central
As the writer behindTraining Dayand the helmer ofStreet KingsandHarsh Times,David Ayer’s clearly got a deep and abiding interest in the LAPD. So it’s no surprise that his latest directorial effort,End of Watch, centers around that same theme.
Jake GyllenhaalandMichael Peñastar as a pair of young officers assigned to some of Los Angeles' roughest neighborhoods. Though the guys are used to being targeted — as one of them says, “We’re cops, everyone wants to kill us” — when they stumble upon a dangerous discovery, they find themselves in the crosshairs of a drug cartel. Watch the trailer after the jump.
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The found footage-style cinematography is bound to turn off some folks, but I think it works here if only because it helps setEnd of Watchfrom a million other similarly themed cop dramas. Then again, there’s a vast difference between watching that for two minutes on a small computer monitor and putting up with it for two hours on a big theatrical screen, so that may not prove to be such a good thing after all.
Also starringAnna Kendrick,Natalie Martinez,America Ferrera, andFrank Grillo,End of WatchopensSeptember 28.
A powerful story of family, friendship, love, honor and courage, End Of Watch stars Academy Award® nominee Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña as young police officers Taylor and Zavala as they 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.
