Worth my nine bucks

Rating: 6/10 (6 October 2001)

I have this habit of praising movies, ALL movies, after just seeing them. Its been about 24 hours since I saw Training Day, and I hope I can offer some semblance of a good critique of this film.
Once again I fear, a movie has been hyped beyond its prowess. Going into this movie I had expectations (another bad habit I have) of seeing a "best picture nomination, and best supporting for Ethan Hawke." Not too smart of me. Hawke's performance was good, but nothing close to oscar caliber. If there are going to be any oscar nods for this movie (a far shot) would be for Denzel as best actor. The movie was good, one of the better ones I've seen this year. Direction by Fuqua was superb, getting across feelings of suspense and fear when it was needed. all in all, worth my inflated admission price of $9.00.
Go see it.