2012 Movies : Gangster

With Jake Gyllenhaal • Anna Kendrick • Frank Grillo • David Ayer • Michael Peña • America Ferrera • John Lesher • Natalie Martinez • Cody Horn

Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena play young Los Angeles police officers Taylor and Zavala who patrol the city's meanest streets of south central Los Angeles. Giving the story a gripping, first-person immediacy, the action unfolds through footage from the handheld HD cameras of the police officers, gang members, surveillance cameras, and citizens caught in the line of fire to create a riveting portrait of the city's most dangerous corners, the cops who risk their lives there every day, and the price they and their families are forced to pay.