Amazing action movie!
With "Training Day" Denzel finally receives his long deserved Oscar for his performance.
9/10 stars
Ethan Hawke and Denzel carry this movie, and I mean that in the best way possible. It’s a good movie. The story is interesting, the shootout scenes are tense, and the writing is good, too, but Jake and Alonzo are what turns this movie from a good film to a great movie.
Denzel Washington as Alonzo is just phenomenal. He is such a cunning maniac you can’t help but be hooked by this character. You almost expect him to weasel his way out of the shit show he put himself in, but unfortunately for him, things eventually come to bite him in the ass. I can’t talk about Alonzo without talking about Jake; Ethan Hawke puts in his usual great performance. Although there is nothing special about him as a character, his good, selfless nature contrasts Alonzo’s selfish evil nature excellently.
Great film protagonized by a fantastic actors about police corruption and dangerous gangs in usa. I recommend it!
Training Day is an intense crime thriller that keeps you on the engaged from start. The film's plot is full of twists and turns, and the tension between the two leads is apparent. The action sequences are great, and the movie's depiction of the dark side of law enforcement is both thought-provoking and disturbing.
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9/10
"King Kong ain't got shit on me!"
This is a great gritty flick about corruption in the police force. I rememeber watching this as a kid but it got even better with a rewatch. I would say it is pretty good but Denzel's performance is what elevates it to another level.
Denzel hits the spot in this good-cop bad-cop classic. Ethan Hawke has rude awakening on his first day as a Narc. Great fun.
Denzel Washington is sensational in this, the plot might not quite match his performance but 'Training Day' is still a great watch. It's a riveting 122 minutes, I'm just not in love with how the premise is played out.
Washington's character, Alonzo, never really changes throughout, despite a supposed problem of his. I kept waiting for a reason to change the opinion that the first act puts to you regarding him but it never came, there's never a point I cared for him and I assume I was supposed to... at least to some degree? Also, his issue is thrown at you in one scene and isn't really mentioned again until the end. I get the character, just not his arc.
Ethan Hawke is very good, too, in this, even if I kept hearing Tom Cruise when he spoke... You also have a load of now familiar faces involved, including Eva Mendes, Raymond Cruz, Cliff Curtis, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Terry Crews. Quite an interesting cast list, that.
Loved all of this, except the (still good) plot execution. Maybe that's just me though. From what I've seen, Washington's best performance so far. He's the main takeaway from this whatever way you look at it.
what a masterpiece!
amazing dialogues and absolutely fantastic performance by Denzel ...
King Kong ain't got Shiiiit on him!
What a performance by legend Denzel Washington.
I'm honestly surprised by how much I liked this, because a lot of Fuqua's work after this has been a little bland and disposable. However, this is a totally different story. It's a very solid crime film that's driven by the incredible performances from Hawke and Washington. Even Dre and Snoop are completely solid in this, proving that Fuqua can draw good performances out of just about anyone. The cinematography holds up really well and there's a great rhythm to the editing. The story, while predictable to an extent, deals with interesting themes that you don't always get from movies like this. Sometimes the dialogue is a little try-hard or over the top, but overall quite a good film.
7/10
Heard about it from Staley
I watched this movie when I was 17 when it first came out and I loved it - rated it 8/10 (I’m a hard rater). Gave it a re-watch recently, expecting at least a decent movie considering it is Denzel, and man was I surprised….to the downside.
The screenplay is a little shaky, with the dialogue being corny in more than a few scenes, and to be honest, Denzel’s performance was good, but not great (yes, I know he won the Oscar), but it certainly was not as good as his best, which I’d say is Crimson Tide.
But the worst part of this movie that prevented me from enjoying my the best parts, we’re the abundance of plot holes. Like what the hell?
I counted 5 big ones:
1) Hoyt saves a random girl and then keeps her wallet and then his would-be murderer an hour later happens to be her uncle, who finds the wallet 2 seconds for the trigger is pulled?
2) Alonzo has a bounty on his head due that day but twice he does not kill Hoyt when could/should have (he outsources it the first time (see plot hole 1) and then leaves Hoyt for dead the second time (patio/balcony fight), both times of course Hoyt comes back).
3) the phone call between the uncle and the niece in which she says in an extremely pleasant voice, “I was raped, it’s no big deal.” That it not even remotely how a sexual assault victim acts or talks.
4) Card Game Scene - Why would a cop, even a rookie, ever, ever, ever hand his gun over to a gangster for friendly inspection?
5) I get Alonzo is pushing boundaries with the newbie, but why invite Hoyt into Roger’s house when they execute him? They already have enough to blackmail Hoyt to keep him in line, and so why not tell him to stay in the car? Then when shots are fired, he can barge in as backup and be under the impression that they acted in self-defence? Duping someone into smoking pot is one thing, making them a murder accomplice is something totally else.
Look it, I love a great vigilante thriller. This one was just over the top to the point of ridiculousness. (5/10).
Mixed emotions about this one… While the performance by Denzel Washington was classic and obviously Oscar-worthy, the story itself was completely absent: there WAS no "story". It epitomized what, in my opinion, is the reality behind virtually every police officer on every police force today: the "golly gee gosh o' mighty I'm so lucky to be a po-leece orificer, hyuck hyuck hyuck...I'm here to pertick 'n' serve, yessir yessir, gosh o' mighty..." rookie with stars in his eyes and rose-colored glasses on his first day before descending - in a roughly 12- to 16-hour shift - into a corrupt bully with a badge. And yeah, that's pretty much what I think of ALL cops. I think they're all corrupt and don't do squat except write traffic tickets and strut around bullying people while avoiding real crime because they know it will blow up in their jelly-donut smeared faces. I loved Denzel's performance...in fact, almost every memorable character in this film pulled their parts off stunningly...but as a movie, it basically blew chunks because there was simply no real story tying everything together. Corrupt narcotics officer trains rookie clean-as-a-whistle "by the books" officer. But as a movie, it was just all over the place with virtually no connections anywhere. Too much going on in too many places and if there was any "glue" holding the stories together, it snapped in several places because the film was very disjointed. Additionally, the ending was so abrupt and vague that it left you feeling like you'd been cheated out of the final 10 minutes of the movie: when the ending credits started rolling, I literally stared at the screen thinking, "What? That's it?!! That's the ending?" Very disappointed. Glad for DW that he got his Oscar (this performance was well-deserving) but final score for this as an overall movie: Meh. I've seen better. A LOT better.
"What a day. What a motherfuckin' day."
Haven't seen this one since high school were a teacher showed us this one near the end of the school year. All I remembered that I really liked Denzel Washington and that Snoop Dogg was in a wheelchair. My memory was good. Denzel is fun in this and Snoop Dogg is still in a wheelchair.
Training is basically Denzel Washington's Alonzo setting up Ethan Hawke's Jake to pay off a debt to some Russians. It's flashy, loads of swear words, gun pointing, bad policing and some cameos like Dr. Dre, Terry Crews, Snoop Dogg and Macy Gray,
Anyway Training Day was a fun way to spend this afternoon and since high school I've seen much better performances from Denzel Washington but I'm still glad that I was impressed by him when I was in the middle of puberty.
This is the second time I saw this. I remembered this as being a realy good movie. Seeing it today,opposed to 10 years ago, I think if you take away Denzels performance this is a decent but not awesome piece.
The razor thin line of morality is obfuscated in such a way throughout this movie, I'm still not sure who was in the right or wrong. Dark, bleak but brought to life with a bustling pace and Denzel's flowing charisma, Training Day is worthy of the prestige it has garnered over the last 23 years and is still as enthralling today. Glad I finally got around to striking this one from my backlog, it delivered on all fronts.
Good performance from Denzel Washington, but unfortunately the story line was short, wish there were more scenes in the movie ..
7.6/10 Danzels perfomance was just great!
Very obscure, rather brutal, sometimes intriguing but overall just a mediocre "cop flick": Alonzo is the best "Narc" in the streets of LA and feared by his enemies as well as his friends. But soon it becomes obvious that he has his hands in a lot of rather dirty businesses. And since he owes 1 million dollars to the Russian mafia he has even less scruple to break the law himself. But can he get the money in time & convince the newbie Jack that it is necessary for a cop the break the law?
My favorite Denzel performance, but not favorite movie. A good watch, but nothing really special.
Probably the best Denzel movie
Shout by Milo123BlockedParent2015-09-04T11:55:44Z
A pretty good performance from both Ethan Hawke and Denzel Washington, and this may be one of Director Antoine Fuqua's best movie's even if it isn't perfect.