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Plot: 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.
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MCT:August 9, 2008i like this movie and For those action lovers, this is an excellent choise!!! great sound tracks and visual effects!
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MCT:August 8, 2008i didnt really have that high a hopes for this movie but i have say was better than i expected it to be
sameul l jackson was great as usual in the movie
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MCT:July 31, 2008
I sincerely believe a game can be spun off from this movie; guess what there is a S.W.A.T game.
Incredible movie with fast paced action. Hang on to the edge of your seat as we are taken into the lives of officers who will become S.W.A.T members and take on a unique kind of threat. Some Kingpin dude offers live on TV a million to anyone who breaks him out. You can imagine what happens next.
Awesome!! -
MCT:July 28, 2008
your usual bullet's flyin' glass shattering, stuff blowin up kinda film...... i don't remember this one actually.
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MCT:July 28, 2008
Based on the mid-1970's American TV series, "S.W.A.T." continues the tradition of poor big screen remakes of classic television programs.
Samuel L. Jackson plays "Hondo," a veteran Los Angeles police officer who puts together a young SWAT Team who must protect a dangerous criminal (Olivier Martinez) who is wanted in a dozen countries. This criminal offers a whopping $100-million to anybody who can spring him from jail.
The first big problem is that this movie takes way too long to establish the main characters in the SWAT Team. It also waits until the movie is near the half-way point to start the main plot of protecting the criminal.
Another problem with the movie is that they only tease you with the SWAT Team members forming a relationship and trust needed for such a career. They really tease the starts of an off-duty relationship between the characters portrayed by Colin Farrell and Michelle Rodriguez, but nothing leads to any resemblance to a romance, if that is what the script writer intended for the two.
You really don't get a feel for the characters. At a couple points, at least two of the SWAT Team members get killed, but you don't feel attached enough to them to care when they are.
They show a lot of Farrell's character's life off-duty, but they don't give much of a history from before when the movie joins his life to understand what it has to do with the overall character.
This movie was recommended to me by Yahoo Movie's Personalized Recommendations feature, and I recommend that you only see it if you are desperate to see a movie. -
MCT:July 26, 2008
Colin Farrel isn't what I exactly call a great actor but the plot was actually good... and it kept me watching !!
The rest of the cast also managed to add something to the movie that made it even more interesting.. -
MCT:July 21, 2008
I've been wanting to see this for a while and had somewhat high expectations. Surprisingly, this actioner takes its time introducing the characters and the grouping of the SWAT team, not without decent action scenes, of course. While doing that is cool to watch, it relies on quite a few stereotypes of similar films, throwing cool lines at the audience every minute or so. That does get old after a while and you are starting to wish things would get serious already. Once the main events starts rolling, the movie gains a few levels of excitement, while losing a few in realism. That's okay though and still makes for a pretty good 30-minutes showdown. Overall, the movie takes itself a tad too serious and wants to be cooler than it is, but delivers good action entertainment nonetheless.
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MCT:July 20, 2008okay
i thought i was REALLY going to hate this movie...
but its REALLLLLLLLY good once i sat down and watched it
i give it MAGOR kudos points for proving itself....
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MCT:July 15, 2008As a completely generic action film, 'S.W.A.T' throws in plenty of clichés to please possibly every inch of the target audience. Yet as a remake of the 70's cop show of the same name, it tries to be a little more realistic and avoid ridiculous stunts, which it is and does. Not that every action sequence precisely rings with realism. The film is purely a fun action ride, and should definitely be taken as such.
Colin Farrell plays a down-on-his-luck ex S.W.A.T operative who was forced to resign thanks to his partner's inability to follow orders. Jackson is the 'old school' heavyweight who brings him back on a special unit. Then you have LL Cool J doing very little but filling an extra casting space, while Michelle Rodriguez plays the tough-girl who kicks her male colleagues arse after every sexist comment. Good to see all these actors taking on daring and different roles then.
Actually, I'm being slightly unfair. None of the actors are awful, and Rodriguez is even given a family to add emotional weight to her character, something she doesn't usually have. The script is certainly more to blame for the tiresome approach. Dialogue that is meant to come across as cool sometimes seems lame and unintentionally funny, and the villains are half-baked, never chilling or formidable enough. And the loud music is unbearably out of place. (For me, anyway)
Still the story (some moles breaking free a drug Lord who offers a bounty for his release) works, the two plot threads converging together rather hastily but accelerating the plot where it needs to go; that is, more senseless action than anything else. The tone never finds a balance between desired serious drama and the action-comedy that 'S.W.A.T' essentially is, but the film will work for diehard fans of the genre; the action is fine, and certainly aims to be more believable than most, and the humour sometimes works. That is all the film wants to give - tons of action, an adequate plot, and something to lighten the tone. You can't really say it fails. -
MCT:July 13, 2008
As the team leader, Jackson finds exactly the right tone for the role: a sort of playful cockiness that comes from knowing just how good he is. He's clearly having fun, but he never winks at the audience too much or allows his performance to devolve into camp.
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MCT:July 8, 2008
Not what I thought it was going to be. It was actually a very good movie with awesome action sequences.
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MCT:July 5, 2008
I don't like all the double crossing that is portrayed within the SWAT team, but the action and plot were awesome!
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MCT:May 21, 2008
Thought it was really good, a lot of interesting twists and turns in the story line, but it was funny.
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MCT:April 30, 2008
Stylish movie based off the classic tv show of the same name. Directed by Clark Johnson, with the screenplay written by one of my favorite writter/directors, David Ayer. The movie is about a S.W.A.T. team who has to transport an international criminal. Colin Farrel, Samuel L. Jackson, Michele Rodriguez, LL Cool J, Josh Charles, and Brian Van Holt play the characters who consist of the team. The team have to transport an international criminal played by Oliver Martinez into federal authority, while facing a great struggle because the criminal has stated to a reporter that he would give one hundred million dollars to whoever would free him. Jeremy Renner plays a former S.W.A.T. member, who was Farrell's old partner, who was discharged for misconduct. Renner takes up the criminal's deal by helping him escape from the law, and back to his own country. Ashley Scott plays Farrell's girlfriend, and Ayer has once again cast Noel Gugliemi, but this time as a prisoner. Character actor Ken Davitian play's the criminal's uncle, and the criminal's assisstant is played by Dominic Lombardozzi. The Bishop Don Magic Juan has a brief cameo. The director of the movie makes an appearance as LL Cool J's partner, and the original S.W.A.T. leader from the classic t.v. show as a S.W.A.T. truck driver. The music was one of the highlights of this film. Alltogether a fun action flick that requires hardly any thinking.
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MCT:April 21, 2008Worse part of this movie is when LL Cool J decides to flash his abs to everyone for no reason...now imagine a movie with the same random stuff happening in every 2 or 3 scenes...
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MCT:March 31, 2008
I knew I woul like it. Mindless action, lots of crashes and tons of shooting...YAY!
It's always a MAJOR + if theres a hot guy :D -
MCT:March 29, 2008
Started off promising. Not much of a film though. Fairly entertaining action film, though it took half the film to actually get started, not much a plot. Takes the rest of the film to catch up for what you missed at the beginning. If you like action though, it's okay.
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MCT:February 3, 2008My loathing for Michelle Rodriguez and Colin Farrell prevent me from seeing thing movie even though Oliver Martinez is totally cutie.
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MCT:January 31, 2008ugh... michelle rondriguez is the only reason i went to this movie, and the only reason i stayed, and you don't even get to see her boobs.
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MCT:January 25, 2008
A very entertaining, watchable movie! I loved Samuel L Jackson playing himself once again, and the plot and action sequences were very good to decent. Though it's not entirely original and some of the characters were kinda stiff, this was an all-around good action movie to watch. It was just what I was looking for.
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MCT:January 19, 2008
A predicatble but enjoyable action romp that doesnt ask too much from its cast or the viewers. Colin Farrell is the lead in arole which 5 years ago would have been a Keanu Reeves role but does well as he cementshis palce as a Hollywood star.The character dont really represent much of a change from roles all actors have played multiple times before.
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MCT:January 10, 2008
A decent movie homage to a 70's television series. In fact, two of the actors from the original series have cameo appearances.
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MCT:January 6, 2008
Quite a sub-mediocre, mindless, and dull Hollywood action movie that is absolutely riddled with cliches, suffers from being too overplayed, and features a decent cast that sadly should have passed this film over.
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mitzidemarcoposted 63 days ago -
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i love u colin farrell .. in my opinion .. this movie is really great !! indicates every move of the real SWAT..
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