-It's not that you know what you can prove. How many movies have been made on this topic, how many songs have been sung, but... Unfortunately, I didn’t watch much of anything. No bad lieutenant, new or old. And another goal of watching this film was how Denzel Washington managed to replay and win an Oscar, instead of the most brilliant, in my opinion, role in general among all actors, namely Joe Nash played by Russell Crowe in the movie “Games of the Mind”.
The film is dedicated to the events that occurred on the first day of work of newcomer cop Jake Hoyt, who joined the Los Angeles Police Department, specifically, in the DEA. He, as it always happens, came across a highly experienced partner - Alonzo, a corrupt veteran police officer.
If you go back to the main issue on which I watched this film, no, I did not overplay. Like almost any Oscar winner in the finale of the film pushed a touching speech, but still it is not an Oscar-winning role, although perhaps one of the best in Washington’s career. The dashing policeman of course turned out to be good, and there are extraordinary habits, which sets him apart from other guardians of the law. But still, you can see that the Oscar was given for the company of Holly Bury and Sidney Poitier. They wanted to do an African-American Oscar, so they did. It's completely stupid to talk about anything else. Crowe certainly deserved to receive the statuette two years in a row, but the academics decided otherwise.
The story is typical. Nothing special. But since I decided to double-watch with Denzel Washington, I liked this movie and the script more than I did in Anger. Although it is completely different, but returning to the previous topic, Washington has all the roles typical, instead of making a psychological film, or at worst just a drama, Washington spats an action movie. Here's another reason. If earlier I liked this actor after his judicious role in the film “Not Caught, Not a Thief”, now he is turning into an increasingly militant actor for me. Well, if we talk specifically about the plot, then, although it is typical, but since I have not watched such films, and mostly only heard, I liked it. The theme of bad cop - good cop is very extensive, and this film did not bring anything new to the genre, but it is valuable to me, primarily because there is no sweet ending. There's no Happy End. After all, I would add half a point for the fact that I thought the end was not ordinary. I liked the way Ethan Hawke’s character warps were shown (here’s who really deserved an Oscar), and I wondered what would happen to him next. In his storyline, the finale was made completely open, for which another plus of this script. After all, everyone will decide for himself whether he took the place of Alonzo, or became a good policeman, or maybe he left the police altogether so as not to see everything criminal that is going on inside her. Who knows who he is...
In general, the film is worthy, revealing long-known problems around the world. In Russia, this problem was also well shown by the film “Stream”, but in the United States “Training Day”, but since our and their cinema is completely stupid to compare, so that “Training Day” is valuable for me, first of all, an excellent male supporting role performed by Ethan Hawke, a good role of Denzel Washington. I might have been more supportive of him if he hadn’t beaten my beloved Russell Crowe in the Oscar race. It is worth looking at it, first of all, in order to see this problem in real life, not in words. Because there is a lot of talk about it, both in Russia and abroad, but nobody is doing anything about it. Original
