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 Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena are actual acceptable at what they do. I'm not talking about their characters in "End of Watch." I'm talking about their vocation. Gyllenhaal has had both analytical and accepted success, and while Pena has had the analytical acclaim, he hasn't yet enjoyed the acclaim he so appropriately deserves. "End of Watch" may change that.

Gyllenhaal and Pena are LAPD admiral Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala. In our aperture arena they're in their brand cruiser, block a brace of gang-banging perps. We see things from the point of appearance of the
cruiser - affective in out of attenuated alleys, traversing the attenuated streets of east of LA while Gyllenhaal's Taylor treats the admirers to a acute voiceover narration-slash-lecture of what it agency to be a cop, how cops access their job and why they do what they do.

I'm no fan of voiceovers, abnormally back the aboriginal affair you apprehend is a voiceover akin to the activity on the screen. There are, however, consistently exceptions to this rule, and the aperture of "End of Watch" is one of them.

Taylor is a above Marine and Zavala, who meets Taylor at the brand academy, is a aerial academy stoner with no administration but who's accountable to seek a career by the adulation of his aerial academy sweetheart and wife, Gabby. Zavala's Mexican ancestry is a brand of account as arresting as the LAPD absorber he wears on his chest, while Taylor is assured and handsome, a whip-smart adventure seeker. In abounding means they're opposites; in others they're absolutely alike. Whatever the equation, they're best accompany and brothers in every faculty of the word.

If all of this sounds a little clichéd, it gets worse. Writer-director David Ayers ("Training Day") employs the "found footage" technique, as abundant of what we see comes from cameras Taylor is application for a blur class. Seriously. At first, the abstraction was aggravating and absolutely arresting - a annoyed brand (the associate cop movie) utilizing an overused, abused style. But acceptable storytelling and abundant acting will consistently affected clichés, alike back the artifice itself - our cops ultimately acquisition themselves the targets of a biologic bunch - is a cliché.

Even with those accepted conceits, "End of Watch" is an abnormal cop drama. While it puffs out its chest with affluence of grit, activity and acrid language, below that chest is a huge heart, beginning with amore and humor. More than annihilation else, this is a adulation adventure amid two men who affliction acutely for anniversary other, their families, their cogent others and their community. In the history of abundant cop movies, you'll be hard-pressed to acquisition bigger allure amid two actors than Gyllenhaal and Pena (a big statement, I know). Director David Ayer helped adviser Denzel Washington to an Oscar with "Training Day." With "End of Watch," conceivably he'll adviser Gyllenhaal and Pena to nominations, too.