Denzel Washington has one of the most detestable main characters ever

Rating: 6/10 (7 April 2006)

Training Day is an entertaining movie about good and bad cops. Nothing that hasn't been made before in Hollywood. Actually, there's nothing spectacular about the plot or the theme. It's full of clichés, situations that you've seen over and over again in movies just like this one.
However, Training Day has something other movies don't have: a wonderful performance by one of the greatest actors of his generation. Denzel Washington's character is just despicable; there's nothing likable about it. And yet you can't help but admire all the work and the energy Washington puts into it, making it one of the most hateful movie characters ever.
A word for Ethan Hawke whose work, however strong, is completely overshadowed by Denzel Washington's performance.