hyped garbage

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

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.

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.

Have you ever seen Errol Flynn's war-time epic "Desperate Journey"? Flynn and a handful of downed Allied fliers make their way across German and escape through Holland, losing some men but having a laff riot all the way.This urban adventure follows a S.W.A.T. team through its training program and subsequent duels with the underworld, with international terrorists, and with traitors in the ranks but they have a what-the-hell attitude that saves them from gloom.In it's structure, it's really old. Experienced senior sergeant Samuel L. Jackson is brought in to create and shape up a bunch of misfits. Jackson plays it cool though. He's not Georgie Patton kicking butt in North Africa. He's not R. Lee Ermey. He's Samuel L. (for Laidback) Johnson. He laughs along with the boys and promotes their organization at headquarters run by the usual hostile pencil pusher.I don't think I'll describe the plot, which is intricate and sometimes meandering. (I don't know what Colin Farrel's estranged wife is doing in it.) There are some exciting scenes in the L.A. metro underground tunnels and some drainage pipes. I was half expecting them to discover the nest of a giant queen ant and her eggs, but no -- just some bad guys. There are the usual shoot outs, explosions, fireballs, and the deconstruction of multiple cars. I give it extra points because the camera doesn't wobble drunkenly within scenes.If you want distraction, this is it.

I don't get the hate aimed at this movie, I liked a lot of this movie, it was a pleasant enough way to spend just under two hours, and I dare say I'll watch it again. Plot In A Paragraph: S.W.A.T. officers Jim Street (Colin Farrell) and Brian Gamble (Jeremy Renner) were sent in to foil a bank robbery. Gamble ignored orders to hold his position and goes in. Although they prevented the robbery, a hostage was shot. Gamble was fired, whilst Street was suspended from S.W.A.T. After 6 months, a veteran S.W.A.T. officer, Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson (Samuel L Jackson), 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 including Street, Chris Sanchez (Michelle Rodriquez) and Deacon (L.L Cool J) Meanwhile a French crime boss, known as Alex Montell (Oliver Marinez) is trying to escape from prison, by promising $100 Million to whoever rescues him. Samuel L Jackson is as brilliant as he always is, Colin Farrell delivers my favourite performance from him, L.L Cool J does a great Job as does Michelle Rodriquez. Oliver Martinez, (who I only knew at the time, because he was dating Kylie Minogue) is fine as the villain (as a side note I now know him as the guy from "Swat" who dated Kylie Minogue and is now dating Halle Berry) I'm surprised this never got a sequel!!