I know there's a lot of great performances to choose from, but for me, this is right up there among Washington's best work. He played against type (because almost always plays the hero) and absolutely NAILED playing an evil man in Alonzo. To me, this wasn't a "makeup Oscar" at all. A truly deserved Award-winning performance.
shareIt gets a little over-the-top by the end, or let's say the whole final act. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against that, but his performance in the end reminded me of Tony Montana, enjoyable but hard to be taken seriously ... I wish the film could have kept the same 'close to reality' tone it had in the beginning.
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I thought Alonzo went OTT near the end because he realized that his whole world was crashing down around him. He knew he was a dead man if he didn't deliver that money to the Russian mafia. Everything was heightened in the final confrontation with Jake. The way he acted at the end made sense to me.
shareYeah, it's easily his best movie to.
10/10
p.s. for the record... only 21 movies managed to get a 10/10 score from me out of the 1,850+ total movies i have seen. i just finished re-watching Training Day again just now (July 26th 2015) and it's still top notch. my previous viewing of the movie was Nov 6th 2012.
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I thought Denzel was really great in this one. Maybe the ending was a little over the top, but he was so badass all the way it didn't matter too much.
I liked Snoop in this movie too.
Ethan Hawke looks exactly like a young Matt Dillon to me. He was good, but this was Denzel Washington's movie.
Yes, I actually like this movie a lot. I think it still holds up after 15 years.
shareAgreed! He did a great job in this movie!
shareOnly just watched Training Day for the first time, heard a lot of positive reviews about it beforehand and I wasn't disappointed. I thought Denzel was brilliant as the villain for a change and Ethan Hawke's performance was one of his best. A very tense and exciting movie despite the plot holes. I still think Man On Fire has the edge. 8/10 from me.
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It's Denzel's best and most memorable. But Malcolm X was nothing to sneeze at.
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