{"id":17526,"date":"2022-01-26T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T05:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=17526"},"modified":"2022-01-25T23:36:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T04:36:44","slug":"training-day-2001-a-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/26\/training-day-2001-a-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Day (2001) \u2013 A Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Spoiler Alert \u2013 Skip down to last two paragraphs to avoid spoilers and read recommendation)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Training Day is a crime drama starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. Hawke plays Officer Jake Hoyt, a young LA police officer who is heading out on his first day under the command of highly decorated and influential narcotics detective Alonzo Harris played by Washington.\u00a0 But from the minute Hoyt meets up with Harris he realizes that nothing will be done according to the department rules or even according to the rules of law.\u00a0 Harris pressures him into smoking what he thinks is marijuana but then finds out contains PCP.\u00a0 Harris uses narcotics busts to steal money and drugs from the perpetrators without actually arresting them.\u00a0 In one scene Harris uses a phony search warrant to steal $40,000 from a drug dealer\u2019s house and then has to run a gauntlet of gangbangers who riddle his car with bullets as he escapes.<\/p>\n

The only legitimate police work done occurs when Hoyt spots two men attempting to rape a Mexican teenage girl.\u00a0 Hoyt has to subdue both men singlehandedly because Harris remains a spectator.\u00a0 When the two men are cuffed Harris tells the girl to just leave without getting her information and merely beats and robs the two attempted rapists without charging them.\u00a0 Hoyt sees the girl\u2019s wallet on the ground and retrieves it to return it later.<\/p>\n

And it just keeps getting worse.\u00a0 We find out that Harris has the Russian Mafia after him for beating one of their men to death. \u00a0Now he has to come up with a million-dollar payment or be gunned down by the Russians.\u00a0 He cuts a deal with the leadership of Los Angeles\u2019 dirty cops whom he calls the \u201cthree wise men.\u201d\u00a0 He agrees to give them the $40,000 to obtain for him a search warrant that will allow him to steal $4,000,000 from a major drug dealer who is also a retired policeman.\u00a0 Harris offers Hoyt a part of the money but Hoyt refuses.<\/p>\n

And it just keeps getting worse.\u00a0 Harris and the dirty cops are going to make it look like the drug dealer shot at them during the arrest and had to be killed in self-defense.\u00a0 When Hoyt refuses to shoot the drug dealer Harris does it but tells Hoyt he is still going to have to claim to have done the shooting.\u00a0 If not, the other cops and Harris will claim he did and because of the difference in stories Hoyt will be under suspicion and his blood test will show that he was using PCP.<\/p>\n

Hoyt pulls a gun on Harris and threatens him.\u00a0 The rogue cops tell Harris they\u2019re going to shoot Hoyt but Harris defuses the situation by claiming that Hoyt is okay and will be allowed to opt out of the rogue unit Harris runs.\u00a0 Hoyt calms down and leaves with Harris hoping to end his work with Harris after that day.\u00a0 Harris tells him that they have to stop off at a Mexican gang house to hand off some payments for various illegal activities that Harris is involved in.\u00a0 Harris says he has to go to the bathroom but ducks out and leaves Hoyt to be murdered by the gang.<\/p>\n

But during the setup for the killing, they find the Mexican girl\u2019s wallet on Hoyt and it turns out she is the niece of the gang leader.\u00a0 When he calls up his niece and confirms Hoyt\u2019s story, he lets Hoyt go.\u00a0 Now he goes looking for Harris at his girlfriend\u2019s house in a notorious gang area.\u00a0 A knock-out drag-out fight ends with Hoyt beating Harris into submission and taking the million-dollar payment to bring into the police as evidence against Harris.\u00a0 Harris calls on his neighbors to shoot Hoyt but we find out that he has alienated even these hardened criminals by his violence and corruption and they abandon him leaving Hoyt to leave with the cash.<\/p>\n

Harris makes a run for the airport but two cars full of gunmen box in his car and riddle him with machine gun bullets and he staggers onto the street to die.\u00a0 In the last scene we see Hoyt trudging exhaustedly home while a radio report announces the death of the hero cop Alonzo Harris during the execution of a warrant on a dangerous drug dealer.<\/p>\n

This movie is a relentless assault on the sense of duty of an honest cop.\u00a0 Harris pushes at the limits of criminal behavior from the beginning of the movie until the end.\u00a0 Hoyt keeps meeting up with proof that the police system is riddled with corruption from the top down.\u00a0 But Harris is a glib and persuasive devil who excuses every illegality as \u201chow things have to get done in the real world.\u201d\u00a0 And surrounded by Harris and the other dirty cops Hoyt is confused and demoralized.\u00a0 But he maintains his integrity even when it almost costs him his life.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The movie is incredibly gritty and hard edged.\u00a0 But if a movie like that is acceptable then it is undoubtedly exciting, dramatic and entertaining.\u00a0 Denzel Washington puts on a tour de force performance.\u00a0 To paraphrase his character, \u201cKing Kong\u2019s got nothing on him.\u201d\u00a0 So, for an audience that tolerates very crude language and movie violence \u201cTraining Day\u201d is highly recommended.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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