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Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Greetings from Lithuania."S.W.A.T." (2003) is an action flick and nothing more - it doesn't try to be anything else, nor it is - its what it promises to deliver it delivers. The plot is pretty good, although yes sometimes sometimes formulaic but it does work. Performances were also pretty nice for this material. The more tight direction of this movie i think would have made this movie better, but it is OK flick for what it is. And by the way i noticed in once scene, one ultra short scene Octavia Spencer - yes, the same Oscar winning actress in one small scene, that was really coolOverall, "S.W.A.T." has nothing original nor super exciting, but it delivers what it promises - action flick and nothing more. On that account, it works.

Have you ever seen Errol Flynn's war-time epic "Desperate Journey"? Flynn and a handful of downed Allied fliers make their way across German and escape through Holland, losing some men but having a laff riot all the way.This urban adventure follows a S.W.A.T. team through its training program and subsequent duels with the underworld, with international terrorists, and with traitors in the ranks but they have a what-the-hell attitude that saves them from gloom.In it's structure, it's really old. Experienced senior sergeant Samuel L. Jackson is brought in to create and shape up a bunch of misfits. Jackson plays it cool though. He's not Georgie Patton kicking butt in North Africa. He's not R. Lee Ermey. He's Samuel L. (for Laidback) Johnson. He laughs along with the boys and promotes their organization at headquarters run by the usual hostile pencil pusher.I don't think I'll describe the plot, which is intricate and sometimes meandering. (I don't know what Colin Farrel's estranged wife is doing in it.) There are some exciting scenes in the L.A. metro underground tunnels and some drainage pipes. I was half expecting them to discover the nest of a giant queen ant and her eggs, but no -- just some bad guys. There are the usual shoot outs, explosions, fireballs, and the deconstruction of multiple cars. I give it extra points because the camera doesn't wobble drunkenly within scenes.If you want distraction, this is it.

No it ain't arty or intellectual or the sort of movie stuffy industry types will give an award to, but give me this over most of the highly rated snooze-fests any day. Great action sequences, cool characters, snappy dialogue, lots of explosions etc etc. I loved it, kept my attention and didn't bore me like so many movies seem to do these days. Yeah it could have done with some improvements, especially it's over-use of clichés, but I really couldn't care less. It entertained me and I enjoyed watching every minute of it. That's all that matters to me. If I want "intellectual" I'll go read a boring book or take a course at University. I recommend this to people who love action movies and don't take life too seriously. It's not the best of them but it's a damn good one.

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!