Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.
Intermittently enjoyable but incredibly frustrating.
– Tom Huddleston,
Time Out,
2 Oct 2012
fresh:
The performances here are so sharp that viewers may wish End of Watch has been shot by someone who knew how to find the right point of view for a scene and leave it there.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
8 Jan 2013
fresh:
Gyllenhaal and Pena are after a lived-in camaraderie and a street-level realism. Pena, especially, succeeds; you buy him every second.
– Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Jan 2013
fresh:
The actors, both excellent, get right into Ayer's groove. So by the time we arrive at the unsparing climax, we really know and care about these guys.
– Elizabeth Weitzman,
New York Daily News,
8 Jan 2013
fresh:
Ayer and his cast appear to have so convincingly nailed the way these characters talk and act that you might not even notice the film slipping from workaday grit into out-and-out myth.