Today’s movie: Training Day

Are you up for a powerful, nasty, angry movie? Then see Training Day, because Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke blow up the screen in it. Aside from having Washington continually call Hawke the n-word and dog, director Antoine Fuqua makes this a movie of eyes, lots of massive closeups on the two leads as they talk. Fuqua also directed The Replacement Killers (Chow-Yun Fat) and Bait (Jamie Foxx), so he’s pretty much three for three with movies I enjoyed. Washington is always good and Hawke, well he was great in Dead Poets Society.