{"id":609,"date":"2003-04-21T22:29:30","date_gmt":"2003-04-21T22:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-609.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","slug":"training-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2003\/04\/21\/training-day\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Training Day<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intense thriller about police corruption in Los Angeles.  Fresh-faced cop Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) gets the chance to &#8220;try out&#8221; for an elite undercover narcotics unit, run by Detective Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington).  The film covers this one &#8220;training day&#8221; from dawn to midnight.  Hour by hour, Alonzo grinds away at Jake&#8217;s belief in decency and honest police work.  He drags Jake headlong into his world of compromise, kickbacks, and outright brutality, and offers him a golden career path, if only he is willing to accept that these shades of dark grey are a necessary means to an end.  Which way will he jump?  Washington is amazing as Alonzo, and Hawke matches him in every scene.  Fascinating to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intense thriller about police corruption in Los Angeles. Fresh-faced cop Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) gets the chance to &#8220;try out&#8221; for an elite undercover narcotics unit, run by Detective Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington). The film covers this one &#8220;training day&#8221; from dawn to midnight. Hour by hour, Alonzo grinds away at Jake&#8217;s belief in decency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_4_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}