Average Rating: 5.4/10
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Fresh: 78 | Rotten: 85
A competent, but routine police thriller.
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 24
A competent, but routine police thriller.
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Clark Johnson's big-screen adaptation of the 1970s television series S.W.A.T. stars Colin Farrell as Jim Street, a young special weapons and tactics team member who, in the film's opening sequence, is demoted after his hothead partner Jeremy Renner shoots a hostage while trying to kill her captor. In need of good press, the higher-ups call in SWAT expert Hondo Harrelson (Samuel L. Jackson) to put together an elite team that can bring some luster back to the badge. He chooses Street, veteran T.J.
PG-13, 1 hr. 57 min.
Aug 8, 2003 Wide
Dec 30, 2003
$116.6M
Columbia Pictures
All Critics (170) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (84) | Rotten (87) | DVD (41)
As summer shoot-'em-ups go, this is pretty well executed, with plenty of macho posing and gunfire.
There is something sneakily gratifying about all this.
A rigmarole of stranded clichés and thrill-free action-movie legerdemain.
The director, a TV guy named Clark Johnson, doesn't shoot action very well, which is sort of a handicap.
You can't get mad at it -- except for the two hours of your life it steals from you.
Director Clark Johnson strives for realistic detail and action. Unfortunately, such adherence to technical purity proves to be a weakness for the movie.
By-the-numbers explosion flick -- no surprises.
Never quite rises above the level of merely watchable.
A lively, mindless police thriller.
Solidly entertaining without being spectacular.
he high definition SWAT training footage resembles a US Army recruitment ad, appropriate since TV journeyman Johnson imagines downtown LA as an unpatrolled Baghdad, swarming with guntotin' mercenaries pursuing their share of the bounty.
Watching the wheels come off of S.W.A.T. is quite a sight.
Is there an actual character in S.W.A.T.? A plot? A single intelligent or exciting sequence?
...a case of a modest workmanlike film exceeding diminished expectations
It has a totally loony narrative, but it is supported by some first class production values and performances, so its silliness never seems tiresome.
I dont know why but i love this movie!Its action packed throughout and is just a typical action suspensful movie thats fun throughout to watch!Great cast, funny, entertaining and action packed!
September 4, 2007
Super Reviewer
S.W.A.T. is a much better movie than it gets credit for. In terms of bring a t.v. show to life, it does a beautiful job. It trows these characters and basic plot into a realistic setting. Even just as a pure action movie it's great. I've always had a soft spot for this, due to it's unbelievably entertaining cast of
May 16, 2011Super Reviewer
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