This movie was completely not what commercials made it out to be.
The commercial clearly made it seem like a day in the life of 2 cops movie. Fucking years go by. Fail.
Anyway there’s a pair of LAPD officers, one of which is in a film class and records their patrols with multiple cameras. Some of which are extremely beyond his salary restraints but whatever. Anyway one is married, one is not and they are out to be heroes. They mostly succeed because they’re too stupid to be afraid.
On the other side of the coin is a Mexican cartel hit team. One of the members of this team records all their acts because she gets off on it. They kill a bunch of people, they like it, and think they’re above the law (probably are in Mexico) and record everything.
Eventually in the course of being heroes and starting families the cops run afoul of the cartel. So the two film crews are set on an irrevocable collision course.
After initially regretting my choice, this movie got hard as fuck pretty fast. Then happy, then hard again. Then sad. Then funny as all hell.
I didn’t think the main bad guys were ultimately convincing, but the cops and all the other villains are awesome and the film’s version of seedy LA is very compelling.
Solid rental. Enough emotion even for a date movie. Barely but still qualifies.