“By law I am unable to walk away. I am a consequence. I am the unpaid bill. I am fate with a badge and a gun. Behind my badge is a heart like yours. I bleed, I think, I love, and yes, I can be killed. And although I am but one man, I have thousands of brothers and sisters who are the same as me. They will lay down their lives for me, and I them. We stand watch together. The thin-blue-line, protecting the prey from the predators, the good from the bad. We are the police.”
Expertly made, you really feel like you’re alongside these guys and the tension in some scenes had me holding my breath (which is rare); for a film shot ‘handheld’ it still manages to be beautiful and extremely visually interesting even if everything looks washed out in the hazy LA sun.
★★★★✩