This week on DVD and Blu-Ray, the crew looks at Hotel Transylvania , The Imposter , Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 , For a Good Time Call... , Coriolanus , Game Change , Life's Too Short , The Awakening , End of Watch , and Legend of a Warrior .
End of Watch perfectly embodies writer-turned-director David Ayer’s crime movie formula (Training Day, Harsh Times, etc). You take a basic crime movie premise, twist it initially in an intriguing way, populate it with talented actors, tease out some unexpectedly dark drama, toss in a few brutal set pieces, and then slowly let it all slip away as the film becomes increasingly conventional in a race to the finish line.
As TIFF 2012 finishes up its first weekend, our ongoing coverage looks at The Master , To the Wonder , High Park on Hudson , End of Watch , Aftershock , Sightseers , The Crimes of Mike Recket , No One Lives , and Midnight's Children .
