S.W.A.T. (2003)

Best movie ever!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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

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

Made for the testosterone-loaded braindead and not to be sexist, this description fits anyone that saw this deplorable excuse for a movie and thought it was great. I lost track of the innumerable vehicles sacrificed to make this movie and the explosions that seemed to occur with jolting regularity every five minutes. What I call a true blue a shoot-'em-up/blow-'em-up. Every time I nodded off―after about forty-five minutes of this stuff my brain cells were starving for genuine entertainment―the music score roared me back. I left about three-quarters of the way through the movie, asking myself why I had lingered so long. If you ask why I went in the first place, I was hoping (what a wonderful word "hoping") that S.W.A.T. might give a penetrating and accurate look at what actually goes on in a S.W.A.T. team and how individual members cope with it on a day-to-day basis. This movie sure didn't do that. Will someone tell the Hollywood hotshots to please PLEASE start making good movies again. I gave it a 2 out of 10 instead of a 1 out of ten because Samuel Jackson's in it.

S.W.A.T. officer Jim Street who along with his partner, Gamble chose not follow orders holding their position and a hostage was injured. The unit Captain who's more concerned about how this affects him, wants to make them sacrificial lambs. But instead has them reassigned to the gun cage. The Captain knows that Gamble was the one who decided to do it and offers Street the opportunity to say so in exchange for being placed back on S.W.A.T. but Street refuses. Six months later Hondo Harrelson, a team leader who doesn't get along with the Captain is brought back to form a new unit. He chooses some present S.W.A.T. Members and Chris Sanchez, And he chooses Street. After training, they get a major job, getting a Crime Lord to prison but he has offered a 100 million dollars to anyone who can bust him out.....It's one of those films that sounds like a good idea, has a good trailer and one sheet, but overall the end product is watchable, but nothing significant.After seeing for a second time, you realise that the film is nothing more than a series of montages, and one liners, with a couple of members reminding the audience that they have kids.The cast are all watchable, Farrell and Jackson obviously stand out, with Rodriguez there for girl power, and Cool J there for the ladies.The plot involving Martinez feels like a little sub plot, and the script reminds us that he is offering the money every now and again, so the audience again doesn't forget.It ends with a bang, and literally half an hour after its finished, the only thing I can remember of the film was Farrell vomiting while he was working out.It's okay, nothing more.