It's not what you know. It's what you can prove

Rating: 9/10 (25 April 2013)

This Police drama is among the best of the genre you'll find that manages to always take itself seriously. The David Ayer script, the Antoine Fuqua direction and the Denzel Washington evolution, as self run will cleverly run riot over L.A. Detective Alonzo Harris, are one of the finest I've ever seen. The training day of a rookie cop (Ethan Hawke) yields a seasons' worth of confrontations, revelations, implications and ethical questions about law enforcement and the "nature of the business". There are a few avoidable clichés that I could take aim at but Denzel gives his greatest performance ever with his triple balancing act between both good cop/bad cop mentor and arrogantly commencing his intricate maze of his life saving mission.