Training Day (2001)

Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke

Makes you wonder, doesn’t it??

Do all dirty cops require their rookie partners: Smoke PCP on the job?? Drink beer on the job?? Take the fall for a murder?? Have the exact same goatee as them??

Probably not.

I had heard nothing but god things about Training Day since its release. So it only figures that I would wait 5 years to actually see it. And naturally, I was let down.

Yes. It was a good movie. But it wasn’t fantastic. It’s just another cop movie.

My biggest problem with it is that I could see where it was going from the outset. Dirty cop tries to bring rookie into the fold. Rookie rebels at first but then slowly begins to accept the way things are done. Dirty cop then does something completely outrageous and rookie cop remembers his duty as an officer and thwarts the dirty cop’s evil plan. Typical day in the life of a rookie cop.

Boring.

Just once, I’d like to see the dirty cop get away with it. Would that be so bad?? Is it wrong that I seem to be constantly rooting for the bad guy?? Does that say something about my fragile mental state??

Not sure. But am I am sure the Training Day’s predictability did more to put me to sleep than the 3 beers I drank while watching it.

(Interesting note here to follow up on my Unbreakable post: Bruce Willis was actually offered the role of Detective Alonzo Harris. Seriously Bruce, maybe you should branch out. At the very least, change to a different civil service role.)