The Precinct review - a criminally dull police simulator

The Precinct wants to make you feel like a real cop. It doesn’t necessarily want that feeling to involve just replicating the larger-than-life car chases and shootouts of an action movie, the intensive crime scene investigation of a detective, or the mundane aspects of filing paperwork at a station desk. Instead, it aims to simulate the working life of a cop by blending all of the above into a lumpy mixture of boring and exhilarating - something that’s meant, in its heightened recreation of the job’s ebbs and flows of excitement, to offer a different kind of police simulation.