Fresh
As summer shoot-'em-ups go, this is pretty well executed, with plenty of macho posing and gunfire.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
S.W.A.T.
You're either S.W.A.T. or you're not.
2003 · 1h 57m · PG-13
Action, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Clark Johnson
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Clark Johnson Director
- Samuel L. Jackson as Sgt. Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson
- Colin Farrell as Jim Street
- Michelle Rodriguez as Chris Sanchez
- LL Cool J as Deacon 'Deke' Kay
- Josh Charles as T.J. McCabe
- Jeremy Renner as Brian Gamble
- Brian Van Holt as Michael Boxer
- Olivier Martinez as Alex Montel
- Domenick Lombardozzi as GQ
- Reg E. Cathey Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
48%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Jessica Winter, Time Out
Fresh
There is something sneakily gratifying about all this.
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten
A rigmarole of stranded cliches and thrill-free action-movie legerdemain.
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
Rotten
The director, a TV guy named Clark Johnson, doesn't shoot action very well, which is sort of a handicap.
David Edelstein, Slate
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