AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

MonsterPerfect Good idea lost in the noise

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Leofwine_draca Hollywood action films keep on getting made, and the newest, S.W.A.T., is just about indistinguishable from a dozen others of the past two decades. It's a flawed work, with a good concept that is never exploited to the full, which manages to retain a little independent-style charm to stop it being a real dog. Now you see the trailer and hear the premise, about a criminal offering $100 million to anyone who can free him, and you think it sounds like a great excuse for tons of action. Unfortunately, you're wrong. Apart from one street set-piece (complete with guys shooting bazookas from windows) this premise is wasted and things turn into a predictable race against time, complete with traitors, big baddies, and a fair amount of shooting and explosions.It takes an interminable time to get going, with over an hour of exposition before things really start – and it's one of those films with an annoying hip-hop (or whatever) soundtrack that intrudes every five minutes or so. I do credit the screenwriter with lots of attempted characterisation to round out the characters and this does work, to a degree. But Jackson is playing his typical seen-it-all-before character and Rodriguez is the terrible actress she always is. Only Colin Farrell comes away with new credibility under his belt, as his straightforward turn as the lead is very realistic and believable. Nothing to complain about there. LL Cool J is surprisingly good too but he is given nothing to work with in his role as the honest beat cop turned SWAT man.After some okay training sequences and lots of attempted style, the plot begins for real. Slimy French villain Olivier Martinez (just looking at him makes you hate him) is to be transported across the city, but a sniper shoots out his helicopter (cool scene) so they have to go underneath instead. Cue lots of dodgy chases in the dark sewers, so familiar and hardly as good as in BLADE II. The only surprising twist is the idea of a private plane landing on a major bridge at the finale, I did enjoy that conceit. But the following fist-fight between Farrell and the baddie is oh-so-predictable, even the "cut in half by train" gag. Now to make this a good film they should have: cut down to 30 minutes of introduction; upped the rating to an R (or 18) and filled it with bloody action; and packed 1 ½ hours with tons of shoot-outs, grenades, bazookas, car chases, bombs, all sorts, I'm talking city-wide carnage from beginning to end. How about the SWAT team surrounded by about two hundred gang members who all want to get Martinez and are chucking Molotov cocktails and attacking them with machetes. Then they should have chucked Martinez in the propeller at the end or run him under the wheel of the plane or maybe machine-gunned him off the bridge. That would have been a GOOD movie.

2karl- S.W.A.T. came out in (2003) I gave this 6/10 super stars SAM l Jackson and Colin Farrell team up to form the most freewheeling but effective swat team ever their first assignments is transporting an international drug kingpin into federal custody after he offered 100mill to anyone who frees him in this | Action, Adventure, Crime dramedy directed by Clark Johnson who done other action dramas like sentinel Samuel L. Jackson ..plays his usual laid back character. Sgt. Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson / Colin Farrell .his character is looking for redemption of a second chance.. Jim Street Michelle Rodriguez ...plays her character as tough nail but feisty being only girl on the team as Chris Sanchez the rest of the characters like Brian and deacon are dodgy characters LL Cool J ... Deacon 'Deke' Kay (as James Todd Smith aka LL Cool J Josh Charles ... T.J. McCabe / Jeremy Renner ... Brian Gamble 7Brian Van Holt ... Michael Boxer / Olivier Martinez ... Alex Montel Based off of a one time T.V. show, two Los Angeles S.W.A.T. officers Jim Street and Brian Gamble were sent in to foil an extremely violent bank robbery. Although they thwarted the robbery, they shot a hostage in the process. Street was suspended from S.W.A.T. while Gamble was fired altogether. After 6 months, a veteran S.W.A.T. officer, Daniel Harrelson or "Hondo", is told to assemble a S.W.A.T. team for his division. He chooses other S.W.A.T. officers as well as 3 rookies. However, after they pass the S.W.A.T. training, they receive a message that a French crime boss, known as Alex Montell is trying to escape from prison. You're either Naturally, everyone with a greedy agenda, including some people that really make things sticky for the good guys, try to spring him. This film has a nice gradual build to its eventual payoff and so when Oliver Martinez character try to run and swat team have a shot in downtown l a he escapes and hires a plane landing on the the bridge so this a highlight of the film as swat goes after the king pin Colin Farrell and Samuel L. Jackson are in good form. I only wish that their characters had been a little better developed. It's nice to see a movie where a character has a particular manner, saying or habit that makes their personality instantly recognizable. This is one of the better films to be based on 70's television my 173 review I hope you like my reviews

Python Hyena S.W.A.T. (2003): Dir: Clark Johnson / Cast: Colin Farrell, Samuel L. Jackson, Michelle Rodriguez, LL Cool J, Olivier Martinez: Here is yet the umpteenth film based on previous material that fails to transcend to the big screen because it is pure sh*t. The title represents teamwork, which was done in order to throw this junk out there and take credit for absolutely nothing. The setup involves a robbery gone wrong and the quick thinking of two S.W.A.T. officers that save a hostage. Colin Farrell is put in job reduction and betraying his trigger happy partner. Enter Samuel L. Jackson as S.W.A.T. commander whose duty is to recruit five officers. Central plot regards a captured criminal being transported until the operation goes severely wrong when he announces on TV millions of dollars to anyone who can spring him out of jail. Written with skill of a third grader. To its credit it gives insight into S.W.A.T. operations thanks to sharp directing by Clark Johnson. Farrell, Jackson, LL Cool J, and Michelle Rodriguez play out roles that may be recruits from every crime drama and action film ever made. Olivier Martinez plays a drug lord and that pretty much sums up his involvement. There are many stereotypes but that is hardly a surprise since nobody here seems to contain any original character. Well made yet familiar action film that should be swatted...with a sledge hammer. Score: 3 / 10

Benjamin Weaver Remember when movies in the 1980s weren't very self-aware, but they were still genuine, solid, and had a real sense of fun that didn't pound you over the head with loud dumb mindless action (you know, something that was mostly lost in the 1990s and 2000s)? This is an example of that kind of '80s movie, only it's in the early to mid 2000s. And I mean it, this movie shows the 2000s in a really good light. The real sense of fun this movie is displayed in the attitudes of the characters. Being a member of S.W.A.T. is a very serious and dangerous job, and these characters do understand that, but they still try to enjoy any moment of their training that they can showing why they love this job. As an adaptation of the original show, this movie very clearly demonstrates the respect it has for it and doesn't approach it "ironically" or say that it was "so ridiculous and cheesy back then". It properly adapts the material and modernizes it in a way that is fitting. If you want to see how cool it was to live in the early 2000s, S.W.A.T. is a really good example of that.