This training is not what he'd expected.

Rating: 8/10 (10 December 2016)

Training Day seems passionately made and well crafted. It's fast paced from the start, scene-to-scene, though slows down at some places, likely for the need of character development. One small scene where Alonzo talks to his son in Spanish, is emotionally captivating, even when one is unaware of the language; and most importantly - describes his somewhat affection for his closed one, amidst his brutal actions and dialogues throughout the movie.
What Denzel Washington's character (Alonzo) mostly does is evidently the 'wrong' convention of doing things; it does sometimes looks like this 'cop' has a pretty decent idea about how things work (he even exclaims during one scene, "Nothing's free in this world, Jake. Not even arrest..") This makes Alonzo implausible.
The film aptly uses the location of Los Angeles, which suffers from the socio-economic issue of drug cartels and gang wars, also relevant to the plot's context.
I've seen it once as of, but definitely wouldn't mind watching again, since it's no-campy, complex story line makes one to delve deeper into it's dialogues, thus increasing it's re-playing ability.