End of Watch
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| Directed by | David Ayer |
| Written by | David Ayer |
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| Cinematography | Roman Vasyanov |
| Edited by | Dody Dorn |
| Music by | David Sardy |
| Distributed by | Open Road Films |
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Running time | 109 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $7 million[2] |
| Box office | $13,500,000"End Of Watch". Box Office.Com. September 20, 2012. Retrieved September 21, 2012. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)</ref> |
End of Watch is a 2012 American action drama film written and directed by David Ayer. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña as Los Angeles Police Department officers who work in South Central Los Angeles. It was originally scheduled to be released on September 28, 2012,[3] but the release was moved up a week, to September 21.[4]
Synopsis
Two police officers from the Los Angeles Police Department come upon a startling discovery, making them the targets of a drug cartel.
Cast
- Jake Gyllenhaal as Police Officer II Brian Taylor
- Michael Peña as Police Officer II Mike Zavala
- Anna Kendrick as Janet
- Natalie Martinez as Gabby
- America Ferrera as Police Officer II Orozco
- David Harbour as Police Officer III Van Hauser
- Frank Grillo as Sarge
- Cle Shaheed Sloan as Mr. Tre
- Jaime FitzSimons as Captain Reese
- Cody Horn as Police Officer II Davis
- Shondrella Avery as Bonita
Production
Writer-director David Ayer wrote End of Watch in six days.[5] After Jake Gyllenhaal received the script, he read it in one hour and immediately contacted Ayer.[5] Gyllenhall and Michael Peña underwent five months of training for their roles as officers of the Newton Division of the Los Angeles Police Department.[5] The training included 12-hour ride-alongs with multiple Greater Los Angeles Area law enforcement agencies up to three times a week.[6] Ayer said in September 2012, "I wrote the first draft in December of 2010, four months later I was in pre-production, and a few months later I was shooting the movie. We shot in August of last summer. It took 13 months to finish it, which is crazy quick. Normally it's not like that."[7] End of Watch was filmed on location in South Central Los Angeles.[5] Ayer had specific details about "photographic style" in the script "to help people involved in the movie to understand the photography and why we were seeing what we were seeing", explaining that "the script started as a pure found footage kind of thing. In pre-production, I gravitated very quickly towards augmenting that stuff with normal operating cameras. In editing, I had all this footage, which me and my editor built the movie out of, with never worrying about genre expectation."[7]
Reception
The film has received positive reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 86% based on reviews from 90 critics, and reports a rating average of 7.2 out of 10.[8] At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 70 based on 33 reviews.[9]
References
- ^ http://www.bbfc.co.uk/AFF292632/
- ^ Fritz, Ben; Kaufman, Amy (September 20, 2012). "'House' to top 'Dredd,' 'End of Watch,' Eastwood's 'Curve'". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 21, 2012.
- ^ "Release Date Set for End of Watch, Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena". ComingSoon.net. March 2, 2012. Retrieved May 31, 2012.
- ^ "Sam Worthington in talks for Ayer's 'Ten'". Variety.com. July 23, 2012. Retrieved July 27, 2012.
- ^ a b c d Steve, Weintraub (September 5, 2011). "20 Things to Know About END OF WATCH From Our Exclusive Set Visit; Plus the First Two Official Images and Synopsis". Collider. Retrieved September 21, 2012.
- ^ Lee, Chris (September 19, 2012). "Jake Gyllenhaal & Michael Peña on Their 'End of Watch' Bromance". The Daily Beast. Retrieved September 21, 2012.
- ^ a b Giroux, Jack (September 19, 2012). "'End of Watch' Director David Ayer: "Genre Expectations Can Kill Creativity"". Film School Rejects. Retrieved September 21, 2012.
- ^ "End of Watch". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved September 21, 2012.
- ^ "End of Watch". Metacritic. Retrieved September 21, 2012.
External links
- End of Watch at IMDb
- End of Watch at Top Hollywood Movies
- End of Watch at AllMovie
- End of Watch at Rotten Tomatoes
- Please use a more specific Metacritic template.
- End of Watch at Box Office Mojo
