Hardcore entertainment and blatant stupidity...that's Hollywood.

Rating: 6/10 (19 March 2002)

In "Training Day", a bloated Hollywood action/drama, Hawke rides along with street narc Washington on his first day of on the job training as an undercover narcotics officer. The film tries to represent the tug of war between right and wrong in law enforcement on the mean streets of L.A. In spite of solid production value, the flick fails miserably to deliver a compelling story as it wears on and finally wears out with numbing excesses. An obvious fabrication full of characters who are marching to the beat of a director's crop, "Training Day" has nothing to do with law enforcement and everything to do with Hollywood's exploitation of you and me. Nominal entertainment for those into crime flix.