The film
follows the life of two young officers, showing us their work, fears,
aspirations, love, rest, happiness and grief. They 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.
The trailer
to the film was very promising: one could not tell from those couple of minutes
as to what was going to happen in the film, or what the film is about. It all
looked just tense, bloody and sweaty ode to policemen – something to look
forward to. The problem is that even after watching the movie I cannot tell
what the film is about, or why on earth it appeared in the way it did.
The whole
movie is done in the mockumentary style: at the very start the main character
flashes the camera that he has, and then most of the film the action is shown “as
seen” by him – all the talk, all the jokes. It was supposed to give the audience
the intimacy and the from-the-first-hand feeling of actually sitting in the
police car with the cops or joining them in their operations. Those casual
cameras are everywhere: one in the hand of Brian Taylor, two on their uniform,
couple in the car – the life of those fictitious cops has been carefully
documented.
