S.W.A.T.

2003 "You're either S.W.A.T. or you're not."
6.1| 1h57m| PG-13| en
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Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough Deke Kay and single mom Chris Sanchez. The team's first big assignment is to escort crime boss Alex Montel to prison. It seems routine, but when Montel offers a huge reward to anyone who can break him free, criminals of various stripes step up for the prize.

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Rijndri Load of rubbish!!
ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!
MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting
GazerRise Fantastic!
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.
adonis98-743-186503 An imprisoned drug kingpin offers a huge cash reward to anyone that can break him out of police custody and only the LAPD's Special Weapons and Tactics team can prevent it. Although S.W.A.T goes over the top some times over it's running time it's still a very enjoyable action flick with a really great cast including Samuel L Jackson and Colin Farrell and i think everyone did a great job the performances for a movie of this scale were pretty good not perfect but not bad also. Also like i said the movie has explosions and action every goddamn second it just never really stopped. I'm going to give S.W.A.T (2003) a A and a 10 out of 10 pretty good action flick.
juneebuggy I remember seeing this when it first came out and really enjoying it. This time around though it viewed as just your average action thriller. Entertaining enough, and easily watchable but also pretty mindless. Good cast though; Sam Jackson is always cool, I enjoyed Colin Farrell as a demoted special weapons and tactics team member and Jeremy Renner as a hothead SWAT member gone bad.I did like the set up of an imprisoned drug lord offering up a 100 million dollar reward for anyone who can break him out, this of course sets up the obligatory guntoting mercenaries and big action sequences throughout downtown LA, its a cool idea.The training sequences were fun too as 'Hondo' assembles his elite team and he and Farrell provide some pretty entertaining banter as they drive around collecting and introducing the new rookies (LL Cool J & Michelle Rodriguez.) Olivier Martinez plays the bad guy here, he was okay, doesn't really do much. The police politics were cliché and on that note boring. Lots of shoot-em-up action but mindless as a whole. 11/24/15
Terryfan S.W.A.T. caught my interest from the first time I saw the trailer and TV Spots for the film back in 2003 I knew this was a film I would want to see in theaters and I'm glad I did, I saw it opening night in 2003. It still reminds one of my favorite movies I saw in theaters and that I have on DVD. The film features the cast of Colin Farrell, Samuel L.Jackson, Michelle Rodriguez, LL Cool J, Josh Charles, Jeremy Renner, Brian Van Holt, Olivier Martinez. And the film help made Jeremy Renner a star, Samuel L.Jackson once again shows what he could do with a character like his, Colin Farrell makes a good protagonist and it's good to see Michelle Rodriguez getting a chance to shine. What I like most about this film is the plot which is not something you see all the time in a action film and from the start it had my interest and I don't want to give it away because it's better if you watch the film for yourself.What also makes this film awesome to watch is the action and stunt scenes that happen in the film are extreme it like they wanted us to never know what happens next and this movie has a lot of those.It will have you on the edge of your seat as you watch the film with moments you won't never see coming that's what the movie reward you with is that it is hardly predictable I remember everyone's reaction in the film was amazed as the film is action packed and it deserves me credit than it deserves.Those in the theater were not disappointed as this film is no guessing what goes down next I'm serious if you just take the time to watch the movie with a open mind you'll be reward with super action scenes and tense moments it's a film you should look past the junk and see the treasureI give S.W.A.T. an 10 out of 10 still love it since I saw it in theaters