Training Day is the BOMB!

Rating: 10/10 (21 February 2019)

I watched Training Day last night and it rocked! This is easily, hands down, my favorite Denzel Washington movie!
The plot is quite simple: Ethan Hawke plays a cop on his first day, who gets lessons from Denzel Washington, a professional cop veteran. Together, they stop criminals, but it may turn out that the biggest criminal of the day may be with them the whole time.
The acting in this movie is great. Denzel won Best Actor for his performance-and it's well earned! If someone else won in his place-that would have been a crime against humanity! Well, maybe not, but it would still be cruel!
Ethan Hawke was great too, and I have not seen much of his work. I will be keeping an eye on his work now! In fact, everyone was great in this movie!
If you read my reviews, you know I am against movies with a ton of language(see my review of The Wolf of Wall Street for an example.)
While the IMDB trivia page says that the F word is said 211 times, and that can't be too far off, I found the movie to be more concentrated on it's awesome story than dropping in the next curse word in, unlike the other movie I mentioned! Still, if coarse language overused bothers you, wait for this to air on TV.
I have read reviews saying that the end was kind of predictable, and it personally shocked me at first, then it didn't so much. If you don't overthink the entire movie, the ending is still impressive. Personally, I found the ending to have the best twist ending ever in a movie-and yes, I've seen The Sixth Sense!
Some also argue that this movie couldn't have ended in one day. I would have to disagree. If this day starts somewhere from 7 am- 9 am, I could totally buy that this event ends before midnight! Plus, it's a movie for heaven's sake!
As I watched this movie, I kept thinking of Quentin Tarantino, not just because of how brutal the violence can get at times, and not just because of the coarse language, but simply how the movie is structured.
For example, the opening scene in the diner could have been an alternative opening to Pulp Fiction. This scene also has some Tarantino-like humor. I actually had to check the case to make sure QT had no involvement in this movie! This is the Tarantino movie that he didn't make!
If this is not enough to make you want to see this movie, I don't know what else could! If more movies were as well-constructed as this, I would have a lot more absolute favorite movies!
Training Day is the bomb, and there are few movies that I could recommend more! I feel like this movie should get a couple more stars, it's that brilliant!i can't say enough great things about it, so I'm stopping here-but definitely give Training Day a watch!