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S.W.A.T. (Full Screen) (Special Edition)

5 star:		(36)
4 star:		(26)
3 star:		(34)
2 star:		(21)
1 star:		(20)

 

 

Bon film d'action, mais qui se finit bizarrement..comme s'il manquait quelque chose à la fin. Mais je l'écoute souvent, très bon film!

The product was exactly how they said it was and came very fast. Highly recommended. Movie is not scratched and works perfect

Since Samuel L Jackson was in this film I gave it a chance. My mistake.
I want the 117 minutes of my life back that I wasted on this film.
I guess I can't get that refund I did watch the whole thing. But I kept thinking this will get better and it never does.
Almost none existant plot, silly action scenes.
I would never recommend this to anyone.
If you think I'm off the mark, look at how many used copies of this dvd are for sale, and the low price they are going for. Good movies hold their value.
If you have to see this thing rent it, cut your losses.

I'd like to say I was disappointed by this film, but I was pretty sure hollywood wouldn't be able to do this film without turning it into a phony macho excerise in bad story telling. No, wait there was no real story. The film was just a frame work to hang a story about a bunch over hammy macho acting on. I'm really disappointed in Samuel L Jackson for added his considerable reputation to this piece of dreck.
I do recommend this film if you let you 13 year olds watch a fim with this rating.

I'm pretty forgiving when it comes to blockbuster summer movies. I don't expect the greatest scripts or characters or plot, I just want to be entertained. SWAT let me down on all accounts and was practically begging for me to see its many flaws.

The movie is good at the beginning, though. It opens with bank robbers taking hostages and the SWAT team moving in and taking out the robbers one by one. Colin Ferrel's character disobeys orders but turns on his partner in order to stay on the SWAT team. Then the movie begins and that's when it breaks down.

Samuel L Jackson arrives on the scene as a supposed ex-SWAT member who is brought back to restore dignity to the LAPD. All this is covered in one line uttered by Jackson's superior, who happens to hate him and hopes he fails. I have no clue why a separate SWAT team was needed to be formed when the regular SWAT team seemed to be functioning quite well.

Jackson is allowed to choose his own team and much is made in the movie of him choosing each member. Jackson's superior warns that if Jackson picks the wrong team, it'll end his career.

The middle of the movie involves the training of the team. On the way home from training, they stumble on a worldwide fugitive. Through a forced and unbelievable plot, it becomes Jackson's young, inexperienced SWAT team's responsibility to transport the prisoner. Here's where I started having doubts.

The extended climax of the movie involves Jackson, Ferrell, Michelle Rodriquez and LL Cool J trying to transport the prisoner while all types of thugs try to break him free.

There is a plot twist at the end where Jackson's team choosing ability is called into question, yet this has no repercussions in the movie, and it also calls into doubt the entire first half of the film when Jackson carefully chose his team. How bad could he be?

Why is this young inexperienced SWAT team in charge of the prison transfer. Is that what SWAT teams really do. I didn't think so.

The final fight between Ferrell and the last bad guy is horribly filmed in the darkness of a train yard. One minute the characters are in the open, the next they are on a train car. The editing is jumpy and confusing, and I didn't really care what happened.

When I think of SWAT, I think of the beginning of the movie when they save hostages from a terrorist situation with their long-range shooting and special skill. The entire climax of the movie is about cops transporting a prisoner, certainly not worthy of a SWAT team. This is a bad movie with no character development. Don't buy it.

this is an entertaining movie,though there's not a lot of depth to
it.it's not what i would call great by any stretch.i don't think it's
too original either,but then again in today's movie climate,what movie
is?if it's not a remake,it's a sequel.in this case,it's a remake of a
bad 1970 TV series.watching it won't make you feel any different than
if you hadn't watched it.there's no lack of action and the characters
are decent enough,though no one really stands out.as far as popcorn
movies go,this one fills the gap for 117 minutes,but won't likely
leave much of an impact when finished.you could do a lot worse than
"S.W.A.T" to kill some time.just don't expect too much realism or
originality.3.5/5

I skipped this one in theater because it looked cheesy and man is it ever. Colin Farrel and Sam Jackson's talents are wasted in this mess of an action movie and the dialogue and realism of SWAT is below-average at very best. Don't even rent this stinker, catch it on cable for free.

Based on the 70's cop drama TV show, S.W.A.T. is pure slickly produced mainstream action fluff of the highest degree. Beginning with a rebellious and disgraced SWAT member (Colin Farrell) who is picked to join a new squad (which includes Michelle Rodriguez, LL Cool J, Brian Van Holt, and Josh Charles) by a fresh out of retirement sergeant (Samuel L. Jackson). Soon afterward, the head of a European drug cartel (Unfaithful's Oliver Martinez) is captured and offers 100 million dollars to whoever breaks him out of prison, and the crew ends up having their hands full when anyone and everyone comes out of the woodwork to claim the bounty. The film looks great and his some great action scenes, and the cast is nicely assembled, but it's an ultimately shallow experience. If you're a mainstream action fan, this is worth a look, but there's better, more character driven action films out there that are more than worth your time.

A waste of Colin Farell & Samuel Jackson's talent.
A lame action film with PG13 violence, PG13 gangstas and PG13 language. Unconvincing nonsense that marginally passes the time, with your diet coke and sweet popcorn!

SWAT is an action movie that just felt uninspired, unoriginal and lacking in more areas than I could possibly account in this review. This is just one of those movies you watch and someone asks you what you though and you respond "eh, it was ok" and cannot even bring yourself to say anything else. If you're bored and just want a movie to pick up from the video store SWAT will do you just fine... especially if it's one of those days you will spend more time talking than paying attention to the movie, and if you happen to come across it while flipping channels then it might make a decent distraction from your boredome, but I dont know why anyone would pay money to own a copy of this movie. Im very sorry I went to the theater to see this.

Samuel L jackson, and your average run of the mill action sequences are the only things that will keep you from completely disliking this movie. You probably wont hate swat enough to bad mouth it to everyone you know, but then again after you've seen it you will probably never ever think of it ever again... ever.

Swat epitimizes the word mediocre.