S.W.A.T. (2003)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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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

OK so, again as mention on my review on F&F not because it was film on my hometown (Los Angeles) I love this film. Has all the ingredients of an action movie. Probably seen this plot on other movies BUT what makes this a blockbuster hit is I believe the names that bring to life these characters. Starting out with Samuel L. Jackson (then again not all his movies are that great) but, when you combine him with Collin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez and Jeremy Renner you get this results. Looking into more details the chemistry between Renner and Farrell makes the cilmax of this film adding some old school with Jackson, and sexiness with Rodriguez, obviously comedy with LL Cool J too you can simply mix and match to get a positive result. In this case you can somehow link all their characters in order to have this movie work out and give you at the end an entertaining action movie. Maybe not the best acting, no high end special effects, not the best soundtrack (although the theme song is catchy ¨Nananaaa nananaaaa na-na-na¨ haha Well do recommend this movie to be seen and again I am not someone who study film or any of that just someone who simply enjoys movies like these. This is definitely my number two best movie

S.W.A.T. is neither here nor there, in that if it was made ten years earlier it would in all probability be better thought of. The problem is that there is such a long line of action movies that entertain without pushing the boat out, some, like S.W.A.T., throw a good cast list at it and hope that carries the film through, others just go over the top with the pyrotechnics and think that is job done. Abandon hope of something fresh and exhilaratingly kinetic and S.W.A.T. passes muster.The plot of S.W.A.T. basically sees Samuel L. Jackson put in charge of a crack team of five cops with attitude and guts. Their main mission, after all the training and baring out of character's respective traits and psychological make-ups, is to ensure an imprisoned drug kingpin doesn't get broken out of jail after said scum-bag offers a huge cash reward to anyone that can break him out of said police custody. Cue crash, bangs, double-crosses and a face from the past coming back into the picture after being telegraphed by an incident that opens the film.Along with Sam are Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, LL Cool J, Josh Charles and Brian Van Holt. Oliver Martinez slips into the slimy villain shoes and Jeremy Renner does another one of his unhinged characterisations. Director Clark Johnson never breaks free of his TV roots, because the film often feels like a glorified TV episode, but his action construction is competent and he has decent actors to keep the film from sinking down among the dead men. Competent is the key word here, it's a decent time waster for the action movie fan, but really it feels like the action movie hadn't advanced much from the previous decade. A shame because there was much potential in the story. 6/10

This story is so far out that it overshadows the acting of Sam Jackson. People, as much as the producers brag about technical accuracy and how the cast "trained with actual SWAT officers", the terribly written screenplay asks anyone over 11 to make a huge leap of faith to believe the plot.Things like this don't happen! And Police Departments like this don't behave this way! We see several scenes of the tightly-knit , newly formed five -person team working hard, then partying off-duty, then apparently driving home to sleep it off and await another day. The stereotyping is very bad.Example? An international terrorist financier makes a plea for help in escaping and within 2 hours several diverse gang groups devise highly-technical rescue strategies and attempts bringing the LAPD to its knees! These gang homies apparently have the ability to hire people to pose as City workers, homeless people, and others to devise their rescue plans against large protection entourages with complex counter-surveillance routing through the streets of Los Angeles.So, a five-person SWAT team is given complete autonomy to conduct transportation, rescue, and investigation of said terrorist, while Federal authorities, the people traditionally tasked with such incredible operations, show up in the very end to observe!Hundreds of people are hurt in a several seemingly mass casualty shootings and car wrecks, yet very few actually die despite carnage from the streets of Baghdad! A rescue of the terrorist is attempted by one of the SWAT team members who apparently believes that he can orchestrate a rescue and fly the terrorist out of the country, and that the terrorist will pay him millions of dollars. A chase involving the LA Metro system and a sewer chase stretch even a little -leaguer's capacity to believe. Add to that the macho, phony images, and "Jerry Bruckheimer-style" back stories for the cast, and well, SWAT goes waaaaay over the top!