Last night I saw the opportunity to watch 2 films.
First one was Training Day.
Okay, I don't mind Denzel Washington, he can be a good actor. Put him alongside a wannabe action hero like Ethan Hawke though and it becomes a little morbid. I was overall dissapointed with this film, afterall it is apparently well known and popular with many critics.
Set in some ghetto-like streets of LA, the producer has gone for a gritty storyline about a smalltime cop training to be a narcotics officer with a seemingly experienced officer (Washington). There seems to be a lot of coincidental happenings in this film which in reality would just never cut it.
Washington does a good job as some sort of headcase cop, who funnily enough isn't actually evil (although there are times I do wonder). Ethan Hawke on the otherhand just irritates the hell out of me. The storyline knocks my concentration for 6, I just don't seem to care because its all a little predictable the more you watch.
5/10
(Some good bits, then many boring bits with a bonus prize of Ethan Hawke)
My second film was Righteous Kill.
Oh, what could have been.
Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino side by side. Powerful stuff.
Not.
2 of the most inspiring and powerful actors ever thrown into this casserole of epic fail. I actually could have cried as Deniro and Pacino's dignity died a 1 and a half hour death. The film just totally lost me, 2 cops frame an innocent guy for something, a chunk of crap, some murders, some more crap, then the predictable finale.
The cameramen seemed half drunk too, I mean the camera was a slurry mess everytime they tried to get a close up of Pacino's face. Constantly out of focus too. The rest of the cast were pretty much nobodys, I mean it got to the point where I could feel their eyes reading directly off a script.
Totally and utterly absurd, a real wtf? kind of film.
3/10
