Training Day is a blistering action drama that asks the audience to decide what is necessary, what is heroic and what crosses the line in the harrowing gray zone of fighting urban crime. Does law-abiding law enforcement come at the expense of justice and public safety? If so, do we demand safe streets at any cost? Or do we risk our security by insisting that those empowered to protect us do so within the boundaries of the law?

At a time when police across the nation are battling a public image of rampant corruption, narcotics use, planting evidence and excess brutality while patrolling the meanest streets of America, Training Day paints a gripping and realistic portrait of the war taking place on the urban front lines - and just how high the costs of this battle can be.

Call it reality bites. The good cop can only get better and if he has to be bad, there can be none to beat him at his game of chase and catch. Denzel Washington as the super cop of 13 years beat is 'the man', he sure gives life to roles and though this movie could have been a usual type of cops and robbers' affair, Washington still gave goose-bumps. As an antihero he quite took the action out of Hawke's endeavor as a rookie goody cop who has just about a day to prove his mettle in the crime infested world (narcotics) that he lives in, the profession (LAPD) he has chosen and is also foil for Denzel, the hardcore cop, the one who's reality is a thin line that separates crime and punishment.

Well, it's a movie worth a watch, time flies in tandem with the scenes, while munching popcorns the viewers get one reality - how does one know bad from the good? What is bad, if it still works in the favor of civil security for the public? What is good if it's about playing safe and praying miracles happen! The only miracle is an Alonzo playing God.

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