Rating of
3.5/4
Chris Kavan - wrote on 01/25/07
It's refreshing when actors step outside their normal boundries and impress you with something you don't get to see too often. Case in point: Denzel Washington in Training Day. Trading in the nice-guy persona for a dangerous cop with an agenda all his own. Washington can play a devious, dirty cop as well, if not better, than said nice guy. And poor Ethan Hawke, who wants to be a nice cop, is taken on the ride of his life. There is plenty of violence, drug use and the like - but it is needed for a film this gritty.
