End of Watch 4K 2012

After watching such works, you begin to understand that high-quality, intelligent films are still being made.

You know, this is one of the few films that draws you in, right from the start, although it's not entirely clear why. There is no aesthetic pleasure, no first-person shooting effect (which is fashionable nowadays), and no special effects, but you are instantly immersed in what you see. The film is almost hypnotic, like a cobra, you watch and watch, but at key moments you just “go into the screen” like into water. This fact is really important, there is a certain zest in David Ayer's creation, noticeable almost from the opening frames.

The plot... There is almost no plot, just the everyday life of two American police officers on patrol in one of the districts of LA (I had no idea there were so many Mexicans there), an everyday life where every day could be your last, where life is a hair's breadth from death, where there is no room for weakness, where you cover for your partner and he covers for you, otherwise everything will go wrong...‘brother for brother’ . No pretentiousness, everything is extremely harsh and cruel, just like in real life.

This time, I won't dwell on each of the actors, I'll just say that Gyllenhaal hardly ever appears in bad films, he knows how to choose, and I remember Peanu from Oliver Stone's ‘Twin Towers’. Both are good, simply because they never pretended to be someone they're not, choosing projects based on their heart's desire rather than their fee. The characters are revealed from all sides, well done, a very memorable duo.

The soundtrack is great, they managed to hit the nail on the head with it, it's both intense and tense, but music in films like this often serves as a kind of engine for the events on screen, as well as simply a time to catch your breath and digest what you've seen. Thank you, thank you very much for it, I'll definitely look for the OST.

The ending is logical, truthful, clever, brutal... and real. There are no jumps with guns flying, no beautiful shots with slow-motion bullets, everything is extremely realistic. We need more films like this; they somehow bring us back to reality and make us understand that we need to take off our rose-colored glasses, at least sometimes.