It’s a smartly written script that plays Denzel as a hard line street thug with a badge, and Ethan Hawke as the starry eyed recruit who is shocked when he realizes that other people don’t play by the same straight laced rules that he was expecting when he signed up. The color palette of “Training Day” utilizes dark and earthy urban tones, relying on blacks, browns, grays, blues, and more, as well as the iconic hazy L. Here is a Washington character who knows he's bad and gleefully revels in the power that his position bestows upon him. Path Two is it’s a full-on misfire with critics and audiences and all talent involved would either have to undergo a severe career correction or fade into the background. Characters turn out to be not who you think they are, and situations turn out not to be what you are expecting them to be.

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You can select 'Free' and hit the notification bell to be notified when movie is available to watch for free on streaming services and TV. As the day progresses, Hoyt witnesses a different kind of policework and it’s not one that he’s too fond of. In his role as the unsuspecting Jake Hoyt, the cop who is nominally drawn into his inaugural 'training day' on the streets, Hawke is our audience surrogate.This new HDR transfer looks amazing as is, but it IS visually different than what we’ve seen before. From the rebellious Civil War soldier Trip in Glory (for which he won his first Oscar) to his layered and mercurial title role in Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Washington's ability to get beneath the skin of a certain individual has never been in doubt. Also, watch out for Terry Crews during the final confrontation – it was only Crews' second movie (and uncredited at that) but it helped set his acting career in motion.

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Ethan Hawke’s face wants to reflect light, other characters are pulling in light, and Scott Glenn can be a little ruddy, so we tried to keep everybody in a range and looking natural,” she added. Training Day still sizzles 20 years after its initial release, thanks in no small part to Washington. I bought this in steelbook, partially because of the bluray case which is (apparently) being supplied with the standard 4K release.A. undercover narcotics detective who attracts and repels as he becomes the kind of thug he's supposed to collar.

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Hawke is the counterbalance as the fresh faced, fish out of water trying his hardest to ‘man up’ and prove his mettle to Alonzo. In scenes like that, you can see right into them, so you don’t feel like you’re missing anything and don’t feel like anything is crushed.When there is action or there are songs, the low end is beefy and sound balance places a good bit of ambient height effects around as well. The new 4K UHD comes from a great remaster, and luckily they included the remastered Blu-ray in with the 4K UHD instead of packing in the aging VC-1 encoded disc from over a decade ago.