"Training Day" is a fun flick. Ethan Hawke's young whipper-snapper of a cop gets a crash course in Dirty Cop 101 from his corrupt new partner Alonzo (Denzel Washington). There's drug use, police brutality, kickbacks, a whole galaxy of underhanded plots and officials high up in the food chain who willingly turn a blind eye to it all.
Cinemash's send-up of "Training Day" flips the clean cop/corrupt cop roles, with Christopher Mintz-Plasse (McLovin'!) playing a hardened dirty cop and Common as his older, peace-abiding partner. These send-ups are getting better and better, though next week might be pretty hard to top: "Carrie," with Will Arnett in the role of the disgruntled, telekinetic high school girl. Sign. Me. Up.
I guess I can consider myself lucky - I have never had too dreadful neighbors. This week I get to learn what that might be like from the thriller that is "Lakeview Terrace" where Samuel L. Jackson plays a single dad of two and LAPD officer, who terrorizes his new neighbors by ways of his police badge, putting his own ideals above the law.
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