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FILM: "Training Day"

"Training Day" title: Training Day Country: USA Year: 2001 Genre: Thriller Director: Antoine Fuqua Starring: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, Harris Yulin, Raymond J. Barry, Cliff Curtis, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Macy Gray, Charlotte Ayanna, Eva Mendes Rating:

OCOG s comment:

Training Day as a film that will educate about corrupt cops in America, boasting a not entirely new idea of this topic. The overall implementation makes passable but (at least in the first half) a pretty good movie out of it.

It's Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) first day of work as an undercover drug investigation in Los Angeles. His experienced colleague Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington). While Jake is the good, honest and ambitious cop, Alonzo is just the opposite. If only its appearance is not necessarily indicative of a cop. Hung with gold chains, he drives Jake in a cool black car through the area, loves to play time around with his weapons and forces Jake to even take drugs. His motto is: "You want to go to jail or you want to go home?" Whether it for now in jail, or at least want to be left rather vacant, the respondents (by the way no matter whether gangsters or police officer) to decide. Either they play games with Alonzo corrupt or they have nothing to laugh about. Slowly, Jake must learn

that the police themselves are really just criminal. For want high Make Alonzo and his group a drug dealer, it's not there with legal matters. It quickly becomes dealer of stolen a lot of money and finally he even killed. Then seal it together a story that everything looks like an accident and the day seems safe. But not for Jake. He wants nothing to do with all this. This of course upset Alonzo. And then what in store for Jake, borders on intentional murder.

Initially it might appear, however, as to turn Training Day just cool pictures and music, such as when the two policemen get in a black car, let it bounce a little and then cruising down the street - background music: Still DRE by Dr. Dre. A little later, when it held the first (and only) rather unspectacular chase by car, one might Training Day perhaps prematurely as a stupid 0815-Actiolfilm devalue. Allowed to continue running the movie, however, get there at any rate at times quite rapidly away from this image.

shows the first half of the film in a more peaceful images of the daily routine of the two policemen. (And I also mean that the movie actually plays only a single day, from morning to night.) Slowly you like Jake is led to the fact that Alonzo is actually one of the evil one. No surprise, not only him but also the spectators, as Alonzo react in some situations. When Jake wants to get

example from the car to protect a girl before two thugs, they in an alley have attacked, only to see Alonzo left. He seems to have no interest to lie to make criminals arrested. Only when Jake has two overpowered after a fight, is added Alonzo and clearly enjoys it, the gangsters get too small with his weapons. Whether he is waving around with his pistol in front of them or pulls a knife as a viewer you will be really shocked, because one is clear that a normal cop would not behave naturally. Also as Alonzo Jake later a few men entrains and makes him sit there, finally, is very well done. You can clearly feel Jake's dislike of the dark figures that smoking and drinking beer, playing poker for money. You can feel how uncomfortable it in this situation is and how much he would disappear. But the men would not let him. Rather, the whole thing eventually degenerates into a brawl, in which Jake life is in danger. But he can finally escape them and only know one thing: He wants justice. From here

Training Day is unfortunately not as good. The action-packed showdown fits so not to the first half of the film, which is a successful (though already seen a thousand times) drama about corrupt cops. Now the whole thing will mean a rapid chase and escape game, in which well-made stunts and threatening weapons and more blood as a deliberate act. Too bad. Alone Alonzo escape to the roof upsets me. Now also form only the usual pictures and not the story that was initially implemented as well.

at the camera actually is nothing wrong. Only one can say that she was in some places apparently very important to make great pictures that could come from a hip-hop video.

also on the tension, there is nothing to criticize. The atmosphere of the film is most of the time dark nature. The matching interesting but unobtrusive background music that can really drive the voltage to the utmost. And if anyone gets by Alonzo held a gun against his face, it is always The question this time he is pressed again or not?

The actors do their thing pretty well. Ethan Hawke (Jake) and Denzel Washington (Alonzo as bad) both play very convincingly. Jakes well illustrated constant anxiety and fear make him a sympathetic man, while Denzel Washington as convincingly plays the aggressive, cool, greedy and corrupt cop. No wonder that he won an Oscar for this film.

Also starring Scott Glenn and Tom Berenger acted. Even rapper Snoop Dogg had a small role as a drug dealer in a wheelchair sitting. Even he was able to convince his little maybe 5-minute performance. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, who was formerly commercial director, and therefore has a knack for capturing cool pictures.

released, the film is over 16 years - and rightly so. Especially the second part is quite brutal. And the eternal curses that are needed are not necessarily meant for children's ears.

Training Day is no easy fare, but worth seeing. Boredom is not guaranteed to, partly owing to the ever-present tension that does not break through to the end. The actors shine and convince the soundtrack is, at least for hip-hop fans, and fits well into the environment. Only at the final's weak point, because of the looks a bit unrealistic and not really fit with the otherwise relatively realistically rendered movie. But if any action is exaggerated, which is that certainly do not mind.

© Revised version of my review on www.ciao.de , 2002