Disappointment for a huge fan!

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Let's start with a nonsense example, or two:To see Michael Jackson in white, other than white-skinned is way too normal. To have a baby with your wife, other than with your neighbor's is way too normal.What am I trying to indicate here?.. Let me try some more...Taylor is close friends with his partner Zavala. They get along pretty nicely. Their becoming close friends is inevitable with respect to sociology, can we say?..So, their being from different races would not "necessarily" interfere with their friendship nor work. Okay, culture tends to run the streets all around the world. That means Michael Jackson's taught to become whiter in order to be better, and a man's taught to have an "unjustifiable" affair with his neighbor's wife after seeing pious people become obsessed over the soap operas on TV. To flout is another deed of a human being, right?..We are being taught inequality in every possible way, for peace is cheaper to the reapers of the world...The scenario is mediocre and somewhat darker than enough. Okay, this life may get dark... But this scenario does not convey a clear warning to us, so that we can change the world accordingly.The soundtracks suit the movie.Hoever, the avting of Michael Peña, and especially that of Jake Gyllenhaal is somewhat unrivalled to a point that we can say this is their movie!..The camera work, in truth, serves as a tool to lend persuasiveness to the movie. To feel like we are all being recorded is a way to pretty ourselves up... wow!So, praise to David Ayer!..Here is a Verse of my culture:"O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that ye may know one another. Lo! The noblest of you, in the sight of Allah, is the best in conduct. Lo! Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware."The 13th Verse of the 49th Chapter (The Rooms) in the Gracious Koran.Amen.

A certain ethnic mafia has overtaken the streets and corralled the African American population into different neighborhoods as they have taken over and conduct their business, whether it be human traffic, drugs, weapons, and murder for hire. I think the acting was great, and although a lot of people get so sucked into the movie and want to know if various scenes are exactly the way things go, I can safely say, "of course not" but this is a very accurate movie about how things really happen. Cops grow close in some relationships, especially when they are under such pressure and the possibility of life-threatening scenarios occurs. The viewer will be thoroughly entertained and if reading this review before they're watching can consider this movie to be a very real example of what might be seen over the career of a police officer in this part of Los Angeles. The sound track is also outstanding and I think they use the music to intensify the impact of various scenes, truly a music integration job well done. This movie is truly, in my opinion, "a 10" and I have heard friends that are police officers say the same thing. This is the first time I have ever given a movie a rating of 10.

Past reference: I've heard of movies that had a lot of cussing and were actually funny: Harlem Nights. I've heard of movies that had a lot of cussing and were actually pretty good horror films: Nightmare on Elm Street 3. I've heard of movies that had a lot of cussing and could hold your interest or had an invaluable message: American History X or Dark Blue. I've heard of movies with a lot of cussing where most of the bad guys get caught or get caught up and the movie is a quality one: Goodfellas or Casino. This one opens with probably more cussing than any of those movies have early on before they can even get the movie off the ground! The cops(ALL OF THEM) cuss like gangsters and the gangsters cuss like well gangsters and nothing is going on besides an amateur youtube video op early on! Video producers, script writers, actors/actresses, and directors just don't get it; if actors cuss a lot(esp. without anything else going on), some people see your movie as classless or even a confusing pile of dung! Why not eliminate the cussing as much as possible and leave it up to people's imagination?! Mature people know some people cuss a lot, but why burden us with this and not cover it like you do in almost all love scenes?! Even if a movie is an all time great movie, cussing makes me just cringe and not want to watch anymore or for a long, long while or again! I definitely am FAR less likely to recommend a movie if there's a lot of cussing! Why cater to people that aren't discerning when most of these people watch LMN and used to watch network movies on movie nights. Therefore, if you look only at the discerning people(people that care about morality), then the people that don't discern(people not caring about morality) fall into place. That's because anyone can and will watch a movie with morality in mind if it's a good movie, but some people WILL NOT WATCH a movie that is a moral graveyard even if it's good! Then, there's more recommendation coming from more people, too, if it is both a good and moral movie. Most Lifetime, LMN, old network movies, etc.(Bitter Blood; Love, Lies, and Murder; Too Close to Home; Fat Like Me; Odd Girl Out; and Orphan and Derailed{the latter 2 were even shown in family friendly versions yet probably losing no value over their Hollywood versions} are among those) in a collection that are also "good" far exceed HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, etc. "greatest" collection(Harlem Nights, Good Fellas, Casino, Dark Blue, and American History X are among them). With the former group, there's no cringe factor(your conscience) while you watch them and you can watch most of them with your kids(except the oversexed or gay ones; the gay ones I would not watch at all). My comparison was between the cussing movies and not to show you that it can be done and well. Also, there are movies like Enemy of the State, Enough, and Training Day that are fringe movies that I own, enjoy, and watch. Still, movies that resemble "End of Watch" in any way should not be done in the future or toned down quite a bit! Hey, I'm all for all movie companies deciding to "network" it! For me, I bought it due to the great reviews trying to find a new movie, but it--like so many others--is more than likely trash! I could not get past the tsunami of cussing early on! I might try to stomach it to see if the movie has any redeemable qualities, but I SINCERELY REGRET THAT I BOUGHT THIS(EVEN FOR LESS THAN $4) AND WOULD NOT RECOMMEND UNLESS YOU CAN ACTUALLY THINK WITH CUSSING COMING AT YOU INCESSANTLY! STILL, THAT DOESN'T SAY MUCH FOR YOUR CONSCIENCE AND IT IS A CRY FOR Christian HELP. I think I'll start going to youtube and at least streaming the first 20 minutes(slow connection) and watching it before buying in the future despite seeing great reviews from 3 review sites and saying NO to hurriedly buying movies without scanning them first. I ONLY WENT THROUGH MAYBE 20 MINUTES AND IT WAS FULL OF CUSSING(HEED THAT 17 YR OLD WARNING AT THE VERY BEGINNING, PLEASE) AND WITHOUT MUCH GOING ON AT THAT TIME, TOO, MAKING IT WORSE THAN KICKBOXER 2(IF THE MOVIE KEPT PROGRESSING LIKE THAT)! I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SAY THAT A MOVIE COULD POTENTIALLY WORSE OFF THAN KB2!

So much potential yet such a crap movie. The leads are great and I'm always happy to see Frank Grillo. If only their acting were framed by a decent story. As it is, it's a bunch of people stumbling through cliché after cliché. The movie follows a pair of LAPD cops doing their thing. They shoot bad men and save kids. They're lenient towards a certain drug dealer, because, you know, these guys are cool and likable. Doing their duty they stumble upon the evil deeds of criminals who are perhaps too big for mere cops to handle. Did I mention just how much inadvertent stumbling upon major criminal activities happens in this movie? Maybe that's an LAPD thing. There's one scene in particular, where Frank Grillo's character drunkenly talks to younger men in uniform, where I just couldn't bear the mind-boggling stereotypes. Someone give this man some decent material to act in instead of wasting his talent like this. For all the screen time they get it would've also helped for the Mexican gang members to be portrayed as more than just a bunch of swearing caricatures. Excessive violence and casual sexism is everywhere. It reminded me a lot of Training Day in that way; this movie's writer- director turned out to be the writer on that movie too. And then there's the documentary-style. Maybe it could've worked if it wasn't so illogical and inconsistent. But it didn't.