This abrasive and brilliant Los Angeles cop drama contains two exceptional male-lead performances.

This is the thinking man's action movie, a cop flick that takes us off the beaten track. Above all, though, it is a bromance.

Ayer and his cast appear to have so convincingly nailed the way these characters talk and act that you might not even notice the film slipping from workaday grit into out-and-out myth.

An intense, exciting, and emotionally draining picture.