- Network: CBS
- Series Premiere Date: Feb 2, 2017
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This Training Day is steeped in clichés so embarrassingly retrograde that it suggests John McTiernan's Last Action Hero played with a straight face.
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TThe writing is stilted, with every other sentence from Rourke's mouth a ready-made movie poster tagline.
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Without the necessary amounts of terror and depravity--remember how terrified Ethan Hawke’s Jake Hoyt was of Washington’s sociopathic Harris?--all that’s left is a good actor (Paxton) trying to create something meaningful out of the usual cop show cliches.
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Perhaps the intervening episodes will make him more legitimately and compellingly nefarious or will reinforce that Kyle is an active participant in this story. Nothing in the three episodes I was provided makes me want to bother finding out.
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A violent, virile and often vile extension of the 2001 film that won Denzel Washington a Best Actor Oscar.
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It doesn’t work.
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Training Day veers toward the funny bone when it should be going for the jugular. Paxton acts in the pilot as if he’s in a remake of “The Dukes of Hazzard” and he’s playing Cooter. He tones it down in future episodes, but he’s never menacing or scary or even ambiguous.
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There’s simply no evidence that any care or passion was put into Training Day from what’s been put on the screen.
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Given the current political climate, regressive rubbish like this lands on screens with a gracelessly leaden bellyflop.
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Paxton is hemmed in by lousy dialogue and broadcast-network-predictable plot lines.
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To characterize the lines flying out of the cast as sophomoric doesn’t cover it. It’s so astounding that some scenes nearly careen into comedy.
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It is too bad, and you--all of us, really, including Bill Paxton--deserve better.
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One of the more aggressively terrible debuts of the fall.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 37
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Mixed: 5 out of 37
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Negative: 16 out of 37
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Feb 3, 2017
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Feb 14, 2017
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Feb 13, 2017