Training Day
Former security guard Jake Hoyt goes on a 24-hour training course with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
26 February 1976, India
5 March 1974, Miami, Florida, USA
13 July 1981, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 July 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
June 21, 2007
My guess is that the conceit was meant to be that Denzel's a bad guy, and that's fun to watch. Instead, this just adds another to his list of bad film's he's acted in...
October 11, 2001
Training Day is a tense, polished, well-made action thriller that suffers from bad timing.
April 09, 2008
If he makes it through the trial by fire -- and a blandly twisting plot with no meaningful revelations or substantial themes -- Hawke will get a promotion, but there's nothing in it for us.
December 29, 2010
Great performances, but for adults only.
January 22, 2002
On a purely visceral level, Training Day is easily the most exciting movie out there right now, but as a morality tale with anything large on its mind, it's a cop-out.
April 29, 2009
A surprisingly excellent movie with Incredible performances...
October 08, 2001
As usual Washington is astounding. He grabs the screen like a vise and never lets go.
April 09, 2008
The movie moves rapidly, is extremely violent and not entirely plausible.
October 12, 2001
Training Day isn't just one of the finest cops-and-robbers thrillers of recent years, full of devious twists and gut-grinding tension, but it also steers clear of convenient moral formulas.
August 05, 2007
This isn't a serious movie, despite Denzel Washington in full eruption and giving his calloused lines more weight and authority than they deserve.
February 02, 2017
'Training Day' is still a very interesting thriller where Denzel Washington truly shines just as the lucid but equally necessary and inspired work of Ethan Hawke. [Full review in Spanish]
February 09, 2006
Director Fuqua keeps it slick and sleazy and stokes up the race some, but this only accelerates the movie's deafening rush toward the top and ever over.
