Hollywood action films keep on getting made, and the newest, S.W.A.T., is just about indistinguishable from a dozen others of the past two decades. It's a flawed work, with a good concept that is never exploited to the full, which manages to retain a little independent-style charm to stop it being a real dog. Now you see the trailer and hear the premise, about a criminal offering $100 million to anyone who can free him, and you think it sounds like a great excuse for tons of action. Unfortunately, you're wrong. Apart from one street set-piece (complete with guys shooting bazookas from windows) this premise is wasted and things turn into a predictable race against time, complete with traitors, big baddies, and a fair amount of shooting and explosions.It takes an interminable time to get going, with over an hour of exposition before things really start – and it's one of those films with an annoying hip-hop (or whatever) soundtrack that intrudes every five minutes or so. I do credit the screenwriter with lots of attempted characterisation to round out the characters and this does work, to a degree. But Jackson is playing his typical seen-it-all-before character and Rodriguez is the terrible actress she always is. Only Colin Farrell comes away with new credibility under his belt, as his straightforward turn as the lead is very realistic and believable. Nothing to complain about there. LL Cool J is surprisingly good too but he is given nothing to work with in his role as the honest beat cop turned SWAT man.After some okay training sequences and lots of attempted style, the plot begins for real. Slimy French villain Olivier Martinez (just looking at him makes you hate him) is to be transported across the city, but a sniper shoots out his helicopter (cool scene) so they have to go underneath instead. Cue lots of dodgy chases in the dark sewers, so familiar and hardly as good as in BLADE II. The only surprising twist is the idea of a private plane landing on a major bridge at the finale, I did enjoy that conceit. But the following fist-fight between Farrell and the baddie is oh-so-predictable, even the "cut in half by train" gag. Now to make this a good film they should have: cut down to 30 minutes of introduction; upped the rating to an R (or 18) and filled it with bloody action; and packed 1 ½ hours with tons of shoot-outs, grenades, bazookas, car chases, bombs, all sorts, I'm talking city-wide carnage from beginning to end. How about the SWAT team surrounded by about two hundred gang members who all want to get Martinez and are chucking Molotov cocktails and attacking them with machetes. Then they should have chucked Martinez in the propeller at the end or run him under the wheel of the plane or maybe machine-gunned him off the bridge. That would have been a GOOD movie.

OK so, again as mention on my review on F&F not because it was film on my hometown (Los Angeles) I love this film. Has all the ingredients of an action movie. Probably seen this plot on other movies BUT what makes this a blockbuster hit is I believe the names that bring to life these characters. Starting out with Samuel L. Jackson (then again not all his movies are that great) but, when you combine him with Collin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez and Jeremy Renner you get this results. Looking into more details the chemistry between Renner and Farrell makes the cilmax of this film adding some old school with Jackson, and sexiness with Rodriguez, obviously comedy with LL Cool J too you can simply mix and match to get a positive result. In this case you can somehow link all their characters in order to have this movie work out and give you at the end an entertaining action movie. Maybe not the best acting, no high end special effects, not the best soundtrack (although the theme song is catchy ¨Nananaaa nananaaaa na-na-na¨ haha Well do recommend this movie to be seen and again I am not someone who study film or any of that just someone who simply enjoys movies like these. This is definitely my number two best movie

Remember when movies in the 1980s weren't very self-aware, but they were still genuine, solid, and had a real sense of fun that didn't pound you over the head with loud dumb mindless action (you know, something that was mostly lost in the 1990s and 2000s)? This is an example of that kind of '80s movie, only it's in the early to mid 2000s. And I mean it, this movie shows the 2000s in a really good light. The real sense of fun this movie is displayed in the attitudes of the characters. Being a member of S.W.A.T. is a very serious and dangerous job, and these characters do understand that, but they still try to enjoy any moment of their training that they can showing why they love this job. As an adaptation of the original show, this movie very clearly demonstrates the respect it has for it and doesn't approach it "ironically" or say that it was "so ridiculous and cheesy back then". It properly adapts the material and modernizes it in a way that is fitting. If you want to see how cool it was to live in the early 2000s, S.W.A.T. is a really good example of that.

S.W.A.T. officer Jim Street who along with his partner, Gamble chose not follow orders holding their position and a hostage was injured. The unit Captain who's more concerned about how this affects him, wants to make them sacrificial lambs. But instead has them reassigned to the gun cage. The Captain knows that Gamble was the one who decided to do it and offers Street the opportunity to say so in exchange for being placed back on S.W.A.T. but Street refuses. Six months later Hondo Harrelson, a team leader who doesn't get along with the Captain is brought back to form a new unit. He chooses some present S.W.A.T. Members and Chris Sanchez, And he chooses Street. After training, they get a major job, getting a Crime Lord to prison but he has offered a 100 million dollars to anyone who can bust him out.....It's one of those films that sounds like a good idea, has a good trailer and one sheet, but overall the end product is watchable, but nothing significant.After seeing for a second time, you realise that the film is nothing more than a series of montages, and one liners, with a couple of members reminding the audience that they have kids.The cast are all watchable, Farrell and Jackson obviously stand out, with Rodriguez there for girl power, and Cool J there for the ladies.The plot involving Martinez feels like a little sub plot, and the script reminds us that he is offering the money every now and again, so the audience again doesn't forget.It ends with a bang, and literally half an hour after its finished, the only thing I can remember of the film was Farrell vomiting while he was working out.It's okay, nothing more.