The Awards season is near or coming to an end well unfortunately we got a month and a half or a simpler term March 12. So, we still have time to watch the movies that are nominated for Best Picture for which I doubt no one is really going too. Or you can do what I am doing and go back in time and look back at some movies that won an Oscar of a certain performance direction or best score. Which in all honesty is cheaper than wanting to spend thirty or forty dollars to watch Avatar: Way of Water. Anyway, back to reality Training Day a movie that Denzel Washington won Best Actor in 2001, a movie at that time I had no idea he was the main antagonist of the film, now re-watching this he did a fantastic job playing the corrupt cop in a modern-day L.A. And him along with Ethan Hawke does a great job in a movie that asks the question what the right way is and what is the wrong way to dispense justice.
"Training Day" is a blistering action drama that asks the audience to decide what is necessary, what is heroic and what crosses the line in the harrowing gray zone of fighting urban crime. Does law-abiding law enforcement come at the expense of justice and public safety? If so, do we demand safe streets at any cost?
I have always watched a good majority of Denzel Washington's movies through the years some of them I will admit has been a long time. And to be fair I've seen parts of Training Day, knowing Washington was playing the antagonist to Ethan Hawke's character moreover watched Denzel's performance in American Gangster, but in all honesty this was the first time ever we get to see him morph into a villain for the ages, because through the course of the movie you see Denzel's character as just a normal looking Narc cop that's been around the streets and knows how the system works but through the course of the film you began to realize how evil and manipulative too Ethan Hawke's character who when you first see him he's a up and coming rookie getting a full doze of crime that he'd never imagine. And to be truthful both Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke's performances are what makes this movie great to watch it is almost like a corrupt cop training a rookie to be a wolf who when he first sees him is a sheep and by the end of the movie Hawke becomes a wolf but sticking to his principles or not sticking to his principles. The other thing in what makes the film great is that the film is basically a twenty-four-hour day and though the course of the movie Hawke's character is a young pup but by end is a grown man by the end of the movie and to the movie's credit, if you are ever wanting to make a cop movie of a young cop growing up, Training Day is a great example of that. A lot of famous singers and rappers do a great job in the film as well from Macy Gray to Snoop Dogg and although they have small role is they both do a great job in making the film itself believable. I will say one bizarre fact about the cast was that Matt Damon and Samuel L. Jackson where being consider the number one choices for the roles of Jake Holt and Alonzo Harris and to be honest I really don't think those men would of make this film work, because at that time Damon was an up and coming good looking actor and really as great of an actor Sam Jackson was I honesty wouldn't of thought of him as that character that Denzel Washington created because he was just an absolute monster through the course of the movie moreover ruthless to the point that you never wanted him to succeed furthermore I don't believe at that time Jackson would of made Washington's character believable had he been cast in that role, so thank God Denzel and Hawke played those roles and played them well. Training Day is at its core a great cop movie where the audiences can think on what is right and wrong when it comes to bringing justice and making the city a better place. Moreover, I would consider this the best crime film based in L.A., so if you are looking for a Denzel Washington movie, but wanting something different then I would highly recommend watching Training Day for many reasons this was the second Oscar worthy performance he made furthermore this was one of the first movie's he did where he plays a villain you love to hate, and he did it well.
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