In Training Day, he does it ironically. He plays a show-off bad guy like a movie star who is so eager to play a show-off bad guy that he wants you to revel in his every fancy low-dog move.

When Denzel Washington was cast in "Training Day," it created no shortage of controversy.The concern among such groups as The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was ...

The problem is, Hoyt will only be trying to fight injustices as a cop, and as Serpico points out, trying to effect change from within a corrupt system will only end in conforming or alienation..