Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.
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Gimly
6
By Gimly
A good duo at the forefront of this thing, but I don't especially care for the half-assed documentary schematic or, you know... cops.
_Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a _
signsoflife
7
By signsoflife
Realistically, a decent movie, with a lot of odd choices. The main attraction (aside from its cast—Anna Kendrick is the only reason I watched this), is its cinematography: originally a premise of a buddy cop movie made out of bits and pieces of self taped/body cam/found footage style videos, yet, there is an omnipresent, shaky camerawork that takes you away from that in order to properly showcase the environment and depth of these developing characters and their stories, while still trying to mimic these are natural, spontenous, humanly shot moments for the most part—and, at some point, even that is lost. Simply, the cinematography is inconsistent, and loosely justified for the case of the self recorded... vlogs (what're the chances of both cops and gangs vlogging their own confrontation?). Makes it lose a little bit of its seriousness by the time one gets to the end. That, and the insane pacing it sets.
Thematically, it's lukewarm. It didn't necessarily feel like it sweetened or glorified either side of the central conflict (meh, maybe the fire scene), but it does condone one more than the other. Is this copaganda? I can only affirm cops or adjacent people (especially men aspiring to vigilantes), would see this and think this is an honest and honorable representation of Law Enforcement, even if half the movie is spent establishing the basic notion that they are all uneducated, looking for easy money, on a power trip and generally stupid.
As I write this, and the more I think about it, I being to question if I actually even liked this.
Performaces were great. Though, again, with the pacing it sets and the center focus on the cop duo, all those external relationships built around them cannot conform any real attachment for the viewer.
