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A couple more 'End of Watch' (2012) stills emerge, as does the poster

Source: Think Jam

Police officers Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal, SOURCE CODE) and Zavala (Michael Peña, CRASH) are partners and best friends. A night-school student in film production, Taylor affixes tiny cameras to his and Zavala’s uniforms to record their daily routines, collecting material for a short video about the real lives of the LAPD. Life is good — until a seemingly routine vehicle check finds the pair stepping on the toes of powerful drug traffickers.

David Ayer (TRAINING DAY) writes and directs this high-octane crime film, which is adrenaline-fuelled, throat-grabbingly suspenseful, and one hell of a thrill ride.

Here we have a couple more stills from End of Watch, as well as the final poster for the film which you can see below. Read more

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Stills from 'End of Watch' (2012), starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Pena

Source: Studio Canal

Synopsis: Police officers Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal, SOURCE CODE) and Zavala (Michael Pena, CRASH) are partners and best friends. A night-school student in film production, Taylor affixes tiny cameras to his and Zavala's uniforms to record their daily routines, collecting material for a short video about the real lives of the LAPD. Life is good - until a seemingly routine vehicle check finds the pair stepping on the toes of powerful drug traffickers. David Ayer (TRAINING DAY) writes and directs this high-octane crime film, which is adrenaline-fuelled, throat-grabbingly suspenseful, and one hell of a thrill ride.

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Brooklyn's Finest (2010) review

Synopsis: Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths. This here is a film which bears striking similarities to Training Day, a film also directed by Antoine Fuqua. With three seperate-ish plot lines almost intertwining in the end, it was a subtler version of 2004's Crash (Review here). The 'stories' of each Police officer were each as intriguing as the last, but by the end of them all, I couldn't help but feel a sense of emptiness. Sure, they had some exciting moments in each of them(Maybe with the exception of Richard Gere's story, it seemed to lack some of the energy the others did), but ultimately just seemed fall flat at each conclusion of the respective plot lines. Despite a few hitches during the story, it was an impressive film, and had all the positive elements that made Training Day the film that it was. Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle and Richard Gere were most definitely the highlights of this film, and made it worthwhile. Good film, despite some minor flaws, Brooklyn's Finest was a respectable 'action thriller'. 6.5/10 Kazed

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Crash (2004) mini-review

Synopsis: Issues of race and gender cause a group of strangers in Los Angeles to physically and emotionally collide in this drama. Crash is an intense, cleverly series of intertwined stories crammed into one movie. Each 'tale', if you will, has a clever little moral hidden at each of their conclusions, and is exactly what made this film as thought provoking as it was. Each performance from this star-studded cast was as impressive as the plot lines their respective characters were part of, notably Matt Dillon in his role as the racist veteran cop. How he portrayed his character was as charismatic as Dillon could probably get. Thandie Newton and Terrence Howard play the 'victimised' couple harassed by Dillon's character; with Newton encountering the racist officer in a clever twist of fate. There were some emotional moments in the film, three, actually, which stood out for me; The scene with the gun and the locksmith, the scene with Dillon and Newton, and toward the end where we are shown the conclusions for each of the stories. It was so effectively edited, so intricately stitched together making it so seamless. Crash is an incredibly clever film, it seems as though more films are beginning to use the same format(Valentine's Day, He's Just Not That Into You) because it's such an effective way to tell multiple stories at once. 8.5/10 Kazed