Training Day

Pros: Denzel gets to play a bad guy for once
Cons: The fact that Denzel got an Oscar shows how untrustworthy the Academy is

Training Day (2001) "I can't believe you shot me in the a--!" Alonzo Harris I would have thought the sort of goofy stuff depicted in Training Day would have been the fevered dream of some cop hater until the recent headlines about ...

Pros: Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke
Cons: It was a little chopped up and hard to follow at times.

Am I the only person who really liked this movie? Am I the only person who thought that both Denzel and Ethan deserved their nominations for Oscars? I have read numerous reviews here on epinions and have found very few who seemed to enjoy this story....

Pros: performances by Washington and Hawke, tightly written story
Cons: extremely violent in a very realistic setting

Denzel Washington has become one of the most significant actors of our time. His ability to convince the viewer to see him as whatever character he portrays, rather than mold the character to his ability, is the main reason for this notoriety and for ...

Pros: Denzel is brilliant, great characters, extensive and dramatic story, perfectly written
Cons: violent

For years Denzel Washington had performed well as a protagonist in many of his films, but that was all about to change when he took on the role of Alonzo Harris. Harris is the head of a unit within the Narcotics division of the L.A.P.D., and on this day ...

Pros: Denzel Washington in a change of pace
Cons: Predictable and unrealistic

The best part of "Training Day" is that we get to see a different side of the very talented Denzel Washington. Normally, Washington plays charismatic good guys, but here, he’s an equally charismatic bad guy. In “Training Day,” Washington plays Alonzo...

Pros: Denzel Washington’s performance. Complex plot. Excellent script.
Cons: A little over the top. Ethan Hawke’s performance.

Even though I was inundated by the commercials, and had even heard a TV review of the film, “Training Day” turned out not to be what I thought it would be. I had assumed that it would be a little more 'Dirty Harry' with Denzel Washington playing a good ...

Pros: Washington, Hawke and Curtis steal the show
Cons: Kind of disturbing ...make that a LOT disturbing

I put off reviewing this movie for too long. I watched it several months ago (before the Academy Awards) and found it pretty disturbing. I didn’t LIKE the story, it left me with bad feelings, a general sense of life's futility. But I nevertheless have...

Pros: Denzel gives the best performance you've seen in years.
Cons: Most of the cons are canceled out by the positives.

Is the new film Training Day perfect? No it is not. What it is though, is unforgettable. The film features Denzel Washington, giving the most electrifying performance since Edward Norton in American History X. His...

Pros: good company, decent seats, Scott Glenn and Tom Berringer
Cons: Denzel was overplayed, Ethan dragging his heels

A Night on the Town

Comes a time all good men and women must wine and dine their partners – and so it was last night. The illustrious Joydrop and myself went out for ‘sumption and some decent flickage (yeah, ge’en our grub on). We...

Pros: Lots of twists, great character development
Cons: Very profane

Training Day is one of those movies that you can’t help but get into from the very beginning. It stars Ethan Hawke as a rookie cop on the first day of the job, and he’s been teamed up with veteran Denzel Washington for his ‘training day’. Hawke’s goal...

Pros: Urban Hell unfolds as a superbad cop takes you on the Deluxe tour.
Cons: Denzel plays it to the max and Hawke does a fine job.

I passed on this flick when it first came out because I heard Denzel Washington was playing a crooked policeman and I wimped out on the thought of one of my favorite movie heroes playing against type by portraying a bad guy. Denzel is a terrific role...

Pros: Denzel.
Cons: Everything not Denzel.

You know exactly what direction a movie is headed in when it opens with a rookie cop watching his young wife breast-feeding their infant daughter. Director Antoine Fuqua was obviously under the impression that simply copying scenes from good films would...

Pros: Denzel and Ethan Shine in outstanding performances that ring true.
Cons: More reality than I need to deal with right now.

What would you do if you were charged with the defense of the innocent lambs against the wolves that roam our streets and prey on the innocent? As the ad for Training Day proclaims, I'm the Police, King Kong ain't got nothing on me. Would you...

Pros: Denzel, Hawke, some supporting characters. Dialogue.
Cons: Snoop, Dre, and Miss Gray.

Police dramas always have to be gritty. I imagine no one would flock to the theaters to see a drama about a traffic cop. And so, we have Training Day – another gritty police drama set in one of the grittiest places in the world – Los Angeles....

Pros: Denzel gives a good performance as a villain.
Cons: Denzel goes over the top towards the end, Hawke is somewhat weak.

No one knows what it's like to be the bad man
To be the sad man...
But my dreams
They aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be-The Who

Movie villains are often the roles that get actors noticed. Audiences may...