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Summary: remarkable performances...
Review: Before watching this film I had heard and read that it was an average movie with great performances. I have to disagree.This is a tense, well-paced, thoughtful yet brutal film with stunning performances from Washington, a career-best from Hawke and strong support from a whole host of actors, many of whom are more at home in the recording studio than on set and deserve credit for keeping this believable. The best rookie cop movie ever made, dark and breathtaking. Uncomfortable viewing, which is as it should be.
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Summary: Thank God for Denzel
Review: The preview for this movie looks kinda like a cheesy action movie, which is why I didn't go and see in the theaters, but I was always wondering about that, since Denzel Washington is in it. When I heard that he got an Oscar for it I realized I was totally wrong. This was no cheesy movie, probably one of the most realistic action movies I have in a great while, but without Denzel, or a great ending, this movie would have suffered. Denzel plays a veteran narcotics cop or a "NARC," Who brings Ethan Hawke, a rookie who wants to be a cop in narcotics around for a day, to see if he is worthy of being on Denzel's squad. From the first time you see Denzel, you know exactly why he got that Oscar, his acting preformance is absolutley spectacular. And as the movie goes further and further, Denzel keeps getting more and more suspicious, what kind of cop has wife that lives in the projects? Then it all leads up to a great ending, which I do not want to give away, for I would entirely ruin the movie for you. That is what makes the movie so great, Denzel's acting and the great ending, without either of these, this movie would have been totally horrible, it probably would have been that cheesy movie I thought it was. Oh yeah, Ethan Hawke's preformance ain't half bad either. So anyways, I suggest you go out and rent this movie, especially if you are looking for another great action movie that has hardly a single cliche. If you liked movies like the Lethal Weapons or the Die Hards, then this movie is for you.
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Summary: Not what I expected.
Review: Expected after Denzel getting his Oscar for the movie to be atleast worth buying. The movie was a disappointment. Keeps your suspense at the beginning, then slowly goes downhill. Movie wasn't horrible, but defintely wasn't an Oscar performance by far.
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Summary: Excellent Movie
Review: Denzel's character is a far cry from the good guy image that he normally plays. (He deserves an oscar for that, alone.) He is a hard charging corrupt police officer who breaks all of the rules while training a "good-guy" rookie. This action packed movie is full of unexpected twists and turns. Not for impressionable youngsters or timid souls since it contains violence, drugs, profanity and police corruption at its worst.
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Summary: A horrible movie
Review: I'm sorry to say that this movie was horrible. It is an insult to the policemen and women who serve our streets. While Denzel Washington's performance is good, as it normally is, it is not superb. The script was poor and shoddy. I have to say that Ethan Hawke's performance as the fresh new blood for Denzel Washington's elite Narcotics squad out did that of Denzel's perfomance. Overall this movie made me sick and sorry for even watching it.
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Summary: A long-awaited cop movie!
Review: There are many cop movies being made every year, but most of them just involved the good cop busting every bad guys and there is always a happy ending. It is hard to find a cop movie which gives me the impact like training day. In the movies we see cops as heros who always win in the end and given recognitions. But after watching Training Day, I learnt that being a good cop might be harder than we all think. This movie shows us that being a cop, you have to deal with temptations like sex, drugs and money. Denzel's superb acting will keep you glued to the sofa throughout the movie while you are watching at home. It is simply one of the best cop movies I've ever seen...
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Summary: Denzel Disturbs...
Review: When you think there's no way Denzel can play a better part, you'll be surprised! On Training Day, he shows his cruel side and delivers the ultimate performance when it's about dirty cops (Believe me, worthy of thousands of Academy Awards). Denzel disturbs. When he appears, it's like other classical villains: I hope he does not get killed, so there'll be a sequel. After a session of "Training Day", you'll be asking yourself why didn't Denzel made other bad guys. This doesn't only worth the ticket, but the entire crowd!!!!
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Summary: Don't bother!
Review: I got this DVD because of Denzel's Oscar win for it..wrong.
I kept wondering when the movie was going to have a point.
I'm still wondering. His "acting" is nothing but "f" this and "f" that and shooting people. I have to admit the ending was pretty good...the Germans pelted him with about 100 rounds.
"Remember the Titans" was 1,000 times better then this but unfortunately, Denzel didn't win for that one.
Shrek should have won the "Best Actor" role.
Save your money..don't buy nor rent this movie.
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Summary: Moody, atmospheric cop drama worth watching
Review: Quicky review; nervous rookie narcotics officer with aspirations of making detective to better provide for his family is confounded to find his new boss, his new unit and the LAPD hierarchy hopelessly mired in corruption. On his first day, he is forced to choose between his personal ethics and his career, maybe even his life, as events spiral out of control at a geometric rate. Very entertaining, lots of action, great performances from Hawke and Washington - recommended. Extrapolated review; when 'patrol fairy' Jake (Ethan Hawke) earns an assignment to the LAPD Narcotics Division, he finds himself sucked into a vortex of malfeasance that will force him to either abandon his personal and professional ethics or give up his aspirations not just of making detective but making it back home to his family that night. Lorenzo (Denzel Washington), Jake's new supervisor, immerses him into a what is essentially a boot camp of vice; from their initial exchange over the phone that morning he sets out to destroy all of Jake's previous notions of appropriate law enforcement technique and replace them with the unwritten rules of engagement his squad uses as modus operandi. Thus it is that within minutes of meeting his new boss, Jake finds himself forced to smoke what turns out to be weed laced with PCP as one of many initiation rites. That is probably the BEST thing that happens to him over the course of next twelve hours or so, because it's only downhill from there. The following hours are spent alternately committing and interrupting acts of street crime as the day increasingly spirals out of control. It becomes apparent that Lorenzo has recently beaten to death an individual connected to a Russian crime family. His attempts to assuage the men he must answer to in LA and placate the Russians as the chickens come home to roost lead him into more and more acts of desperation to save himself. Jake's attempts to control and minimize his level of participation in these events quickly put him at odds with Lorenzo and the rest of the squad and cause him to question whether or not they have set him up as a patsy from the start, or are they trying to quickly and inexorably engender him into the squad's corrupt machinations. One option is as unattractive an alternative as the other as he tries to figure out how he can extricate himself from Lorenzo's grasp. All the deserved hype about Washington's Oscar®-winning performance notwithstanding, this movie is more about Jake grossly overwhelmed by the combined pressures of being a white rookie narcotics officer in a minority community and being witness to/participant in more crime being perpetrated by his fellow officers than the criminals they pursue. His day begins with dreams of a nice house for his family, but his parade of rookie mistakes combine with Lorenzo's manipulations to lead him to the brink of death; early in the movie he and Lorenzo briefly yet heatedly debate the merits of street justice, but by the end of his training day he discovers, as does Lorenzo that street justice is all that's left. ***BONUS*** Fun cameo featuring Snoop Doggy Dog vomiting rock! Boo-yah!
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Summary: Good Movie but...
Review: Training day was a better than average cop movie but not as great as the hype. Hawke's performance is adequate and Washington's is very good but not quite oscar material in my opinion (I have seen much better performances not even be nominated). If it would have been up to me Crowe would have gone away with the best actor Oscar for 'A Beautiful Mind' in which he delivered a much more powerful, dramatic, oscar worthy performance than Washington in this film.
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