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Two Gun Bob said:
End Of Watch: 8/10.

This was shot in a documentary style format and a little akin to the paranormal investigation genre but nevertheless still an engrossing watch.

Very funny in parts and also gritty beyond the compelling as our two perfectly matched duos unwittingly take on the might of the mexican cartel. If I have to cast crititism and deduct Moon point for pedantisism then it has to be of primary concern how machine gun bullets can evade a primary target in an ambush crossfire situation and so was slightly pissed off with that lack of realism.

With these minor niggles out of the way we both sat on the edge of our seats enthraled with the action even though we wept buckets at it's alternative end .. but that may just have been the gin.


Longtime LAPD partners and friends, Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Mike Zavala (Michael Peña) patrol one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Though they may bend the rules, their honor and dedication to the job are unquestioned. Taylor and Zavala always have each other's back, even if Taylor's surreptitious filming of their daily activities for a college course is a bit ill-advised. All hell breaks loose for the officers when they run afoul of a vicious Mexican cartel.

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One of my favourite 'buddy' films ever. Yeah, bullet dodging is a thing but they needed that to even things out in the end.

Loved it. Might even watch it again from my films collection!
 
Watched The Batman last night. Excellent and I'd be really interested in what @Bigga thinks of it as the forum Batman expert.

This is a very serious movie with an excellent score, great cinematography (it is very dark) with some nice use of darkness and colour. It's a little obvious in places and very sincere. It does have a tiny amount of subtle humour based mainly on repitition but definitely don't go expecting to smile. The use of repetition is something I've not seen mentioned in other reviews but is something I want to think more on. The opening scene is repeated but with a different character and the same door is revisited several times by the same character in different circumstances.

This is not the super hi-tech Nolan Batman or the brute Affleck Batman. Gotham feels closer to Nolan's version although Batman with his detective skills is closer to Affleck. However The Batman definitely has his own spin different to those. It's the pale spent to much time in the dark and is a little weird Batman. Pattinson is excellent and the performances are all pretty good.

The Riddler comes close to pastiche but there are only so many ways you can play that kind of role. Some of the questions raised between him and Batman I think was better explored in the Dark Knight and i think needed a couple of extra scenes to really sell it. The Riddler is sufficiently creepy though.

The ending you could imagine coming from the Nolan universe and how we get to it does feel rushed particularly compared to how slow the rest of the movie is and the moment where the theme of the movie is resolved does feel a little clumsy like the Martha moment in Bats v Supes but i thought it was an interesting arc that we don't see a Batman origin but we almost have a Bruce Wayne Billionaire Philanthropist origin story.

In summary this was a film i was very meh about when i first heard the casting and saw the trailer. However after seeing Pattinson in Tenet i did get more interested and the film surpassed my expectation.
 
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