Superior buddy cop movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 8, 2023

Denzel Washington chomps down on the role of an unprincipled narcotics cop with exhibitionistic relish, but it's already an overrated performance -- a karaoke bad guy from an actor with an almost untarnishably righteous screen persona.

| Nov 8, 2023

We hadn't seen Washington play the bad guy before, and with his ferocious, dominating, and charismatic performance, the Oscar was his...

| Mar 31, 2020

Great performances, but for adults only.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2010

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.

| Apr 9, 2008

Marred slightly by an unsatisfactory climax, this is a cracking cop drama anchored by great performances and intelligent direction from Fuqua.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 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.

| Feb 9, 2006

Abruptly shifts gears, switching from character-driven issue-oriented thriller to formula action-driven cop flick.

| Original Score: C- | May 9, 2002

Good to see Denzel Washington get the meaty villainous role he deserves.

| Feb 3, 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.

Full Review | Jan 22, 2002

A brutal, fierce, and tense police thriller, Training Day takes a well-worn format and infuses it with freshness and verve.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 21, 2002

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.

| Oct 12, 2001

Training Day is a tense, polished, well-made action thriller that suffers from bad timing.

| Oct 11, 2001

A razor-wire-taut (and extremely violent) exploration of what happens when good guys go bad, badder, baddest.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 8, 2001

As usual Washington is astounding. He grabs the screen like a vise and never lets go.

| Oct 8, 2001

A rock-solid Hollywood thriller that showcases a corrupt cop's twisted abuse of innocence.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 5, 2001

Washington is dazzling as Alonzo.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2001

A taut, high-velocity film.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 5, 2001

In the end is less than fully satisfying.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 5, 2001

As impersonated by the evangelically thunderous Washington -- who no longer acts with other performers, he acts at them -- Alonzo feels about as 'street' as a Beverly Hills ghetto.

| Oct 5, 2001