Pretty Good

Don't Believe the Hype

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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.

No it ain't arty or intellectual or the sort of movie stuffy industry types will give an award to, but give me this over most of the highly rated snooze-fests any day. Great action sequences, cool characters, snappy dialogue, lots of explosions etc etc. I loved it, kept my attention and didn't bore me like so many movies seem to do these days. Yeah it could have done with some improvements, especially it's over-use of clichés, but I really couldn't care less. It entertained me and I enjoyed watching every minute of it. That's all that matters to me. If I want "intellectual" I'll go read a boring book or take a course at University. I recommend this to people who love action movies and don't take life too seriously. It's not the best of them but it's a damn good one.

I was irritated with 2003's SWAT, a modernized, big-budget version of the gasping-for-air-it-was-so-stupidly-unintentionally-funny ABC series of 40 years ago. Eight bazillion thugs, pugs, and mugs spill out into the streets to collect a reward put up by a cartel-type to get him out of the clutches of the LAPD. It's like the excremental Predator II, with the streets taken over by zombies in doo-rags.Then, Director Clark Johnson gets it under control. Control being defined as holding on to the steering wheel of a tightly-plotted SWAT van of clichés. At no time did I believe anything I was seeing, but damned if I didn't get pulled into this nonsense, much the way I loved the old series. I actually felt a little goose-bumpy at times, kind of chilled from the excitement.Is there anything wrong in enjoying a stupid shootemup like SWAT? I don't think so, if the movie's heart is in the right place, the Dollar Tree philosophy isn't too thick, and the narrative throws out some surprises I didn't see coming.I saw SWAT on TNT some weeks ago, and even with the occasional gout of blood or F-cracker being eliminated, it still seemed to come to the small screen intact. If I can forgive the network hacks hacking out the icky stuff, I get a double whammy of good value--mindless entertainment, all in the comfort of my own home. Shoot, I just had to wait ten years to see it.So, if you haven't seen this professionally produced cinematic equivalent to a 10 piece box of Chicken McNuggets, look for it the next time it's on the tube.It's worth the empty calories.

LAPD SWAT officer Jim Street (Colin Farrell) is an ex-Navy SEAL. When his partner Brian Gamble (Jeremy Renner) disobeyed orders in an armed robbery takedown, Brian gets fired and Jim gets sidelined. Six months later, LAPD is under pressure and veteran SWAT Hondo Harrelson (Samuel L. Jackson) is told to assemble a new SWAT team. Along with some veterans, he picks Jim, Deke (LL Cool J), and Chris Sanchez (Michelle Rodriguez). When French crime boss Alex Montell (Olivier Martinez) gets caught after a routine traffic stop, he tries to escape with an offer of $100 million and SWAT has to stop him.For movies like this, it's all about the action and the gunplay. The good news is that the story passes the smell test. It's not too complicated but it's also not simplistic. The characters are big stereotypes. The actors are all excellent. It's a simple popcorn movie. It does it well. Nothing more.