Arrival from 2024. First Shift.

I have a passion to meticulous police films that show gritty realism of everyday of servants of the law and their preciseness to do in according to procedures. First Shift by director Uwe Boll didn’t impress me initially by storyline’s premise at the time of it’s promotion because I didn’t see a realism. I didn’t believe in this movie. It was until more than year when I had a sudden thunder to see it, which came from a curiosity. I was with intention but I watched trailer again and it didn’t present that I saw previously.

Boll shows a cop’s daily routine, to which I became involved with pleasure, and he combines with striking conversations between newly formed partners. A plot seemed in using of familiar clichés in storytelling but it won’t be a truth as this will reveal eventually. A script is inventive thankfully to collaboration of the director with two film’s leads Gino Anthony Pesi and Kristen Renton, which the last two had a freedom in elaboration of personality for their characters and they gave New York to their dialogs. That union of three made a magical great drama demonstrating powerful personages, their inner and harshness of everyday life of police detectives. It was attaching to follow for main and some other characters, which don’t include only humans. In addition, these wonderful talks have excellent humor, which is authentic in their situations foremost. I love a contrast of characters and how these opposite worlds find words with each other. The lead actors create an excellent chemistry in their heroes.

There can point on a slight exaggeration with realism by that protagonists have many unusual situations in one day. However, it can be acceptable by that setting takes New York, especially modern times. The one unacceptable here is heroes’ final visit. But I’m not pretentious because a story was told right and First Shift can belong to a beautiful hyperrealism. Eventually, you must try so badly to create worse than End of Watch, which is the pinnacle of outrageous and terrible that this humankind made about days of police workers. My dislike in First Shift in staging of a scene of appearing of a car from a second road, which forces a cop vehicle to push breaks – it had minus in believe; and no knowledge of procedure how a law enforcer should approach to a stopped transport because it wouldn’t led to happened if following the instruction had a place.

A flick did a top-notch works in all technical aspect either an operator or an editor. I haven’t anything for objection. Personally, I am astonished by the score by inventiveness of it’s brilliant pulsing. I stayed on credits for listen this grabbing music, which composed unknown for me Germans Jessica de Rooij and Hendrik Nolle.

Uwe Boll envisions on creating eight films with First Shift as perfect as well as he said numbers in six and three alongside with bringing to TV series. Currently, he works on back-to-back production of two parts. I’m intrigued by main personages and the stories of New York from a view of police detectives. I look forward on continuations at least now.