This movie SHOCKED me!

Rating: 8/10 (9 December 2001)

TRAINING DAY is a shocking movie! Please, do yourself a favor and DON'T watch it, unless you're at least 16 years old (although 18 seems even more appropriate).
It shows life and death in the ghetto without any kind of compromise. It shows a cop who turned into a criminal, because he thinks that this is the only way to deal with crime at all. It shows how another cop's ideals of his job (and maybe the world as a whole) come crashing down in only one day. And most important of all: The movie doesn't give any answers to the questions it arouses; the viewer has to make up these answers on his own and it's not clear whether he will find them - or whether they exist at all.
In a way, TRAINING DAY has got a "happy end". But it's one of the darkest happy ends I've ever seen.
Ethan Hawke plays well, and Denzel Washington is simply brilliant: He gives the bad guy in an absolutely convincing manner.
TRAINING DAY is a true, drastic and important movie: 8 out of 10.