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David Ayer (born January 18, 1968) is an American filmmaker known for making crime films that are set in Los Angeles and deal with gangs and police corruption. His screenplays include Training Day (2001), The Fast and the Furious (2001), and S.W.A.T. (2003). He has also directed Harsh Times (2005), Street Kings (2008), End of Watch (2012), Sabotage (2014), and The Beekeeper (2024). In 2016, he directed the superhero movie Suicide Squad from the DC Extended Universe and then the urban fantasy film Bright (2017) for Netflix. He has twice collaborated with actor Shia LaBeouf: first with the World War II drama Fury (2014), then the crime thriller The Tax Collector (2020). He has also collaborated with his friend Cle Shaheed Sloan, who has appeared in four of his films. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Ayer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Flynn Johnson, a young rookie cop in Atlanta suffers from long-term insomnia after killing his veteran partner by accident during a tedious investigation. Drunk and burned out of the incident, Flynn is transferred to the Los Angeles unit for a bizarre twist of events. A murder has taken place in which an honest cop was killed while receiving calls over a neighbor who is accused of drug possession. Knowing that there is more to the case, the young cop gets into the underworld of drugs and corruption as his sanity is pushed to the brink of psychotic breakdown as he discovers the truth behind his mentor's death.
