S.W.A.T.

2003 "You're either S.W.A.T. or you're not."
6.1| 1h57m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 08 August 2003 Released
Producted By: Columbia Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/swat
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Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough Deke Kay and single mom Chris Sanchez. The team's first big assignment is to escort crime boss Alex Montel to prison. It seems routine, but when Montel offers a huge reward to anyone who can break him free, criminals of various stripes step up for the prize.

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CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!
FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
Matho The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.
adonis98-743-186503 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.
jkbonner1 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.
inspectors71 I was irritated with 2003's SWAT, a modernized, big-budget version of the gasping-for-air-it-was-so-stupidly-unintentionally-funny ABC series of 40 years ago. Eight bazillion thugs, pugs, and mugs spill out into the streets to collect a reward put up by a cartel-type to get him out of the clutches of the LAPD. It's like the excremental Predator II, with the streets taken over by zombies in doo-rags.Then, Director Clark Johnson gets it under control. Control being defined as holding on to the steering wheel of a tightly-plotted SWAT van of clichés. At no time did I believe anything I was seeing, but damned if I didn't get pulled into this nonsense, much the way I loved the old series. I actually felt a little goose-bumpy at times, kind of chilled from the excitement.Is there anything wrong in enjoying a stupid shootemup like SWAT? I don't think so, if the movie's heart is in the right place, the Dollar Tree philosophy isn't too thick, and the narrative throws out some surprises I didn't see coming.I saw SWAT on TNT some weeks ago, and even with the occasional gout of blood or F-cracker being eliminated, it still seemed to come to the small screen intact. If I can forgive the network hacks hacking out the icky stuff, I get a double whammy of good value--mindless entertainment, all in the comfort of my own home. Shoot, I just had to wait ten years to see it.So, if you haven't seen this professionally produced cinematic equivalent to a 10 piece box of Chicken McNuggets, look for it the next time it's on the tube.It's worth the empty calories.
poj-man I mean...really...how are you going to accomplish that? After you get the bad guy from the clutches of the law then what do you do to collect? Take a suitcase to some foreign country and then deposit the money in the bank? And yet...people in S.W.A.T. world are happy to seek the reward that is broadcast to be paid. It's yet another lazy Hollywood writing shtick.It's also as lazy as a police officer chasing a LA Laker clad criminal for city blocks only to have a conniption because Samuel Jackson catches the crook for the cop. The police officer and the criminal...after blocks of running...have no shortness of breath. There is not a single bead of sweat on the temple or forehead. Then they immediately discuss a job on the S.W.A.T. team and the cop accepts. No discussion of pay or benefits or Police Union hiring requirements. Nope! This film epitomizes big money, lazy writing and film making...as well as being full of product placement ad after product placement ad. Hollywood mailed it in 100% with this dreck and then they wonder why their films tank.