S.W.A.T. (DVD)

I'll be the first to admit I don't go to the cinema half as much as I really should do to be going a lot more often. I'm still to see the latest Matrix film although from what I've heard about it here I'm still slightly dubious. However have been given the opportunity to see SWAT I took it up in a flash. The trailers I had seen looked pretty good and the fact it has Samuel L Jackson in it was just a bonus. The story line is unsurprisingly simple. ...
...team are called in to deal with the hostage takers. It all ends in tragedy when one female hostage is shot by Brian Gamble (Jeremy Renner) and as he and his partner Jim Street (Colin Farrell) disobeyed an order to hold they are in serious trouble. Brian opts for the easy way out and quits the force. However Street decides to return to normal Police service and tries to work his way back into SWAT. This decision doesn’t sit well with Brian who thinks ...

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Fads are everywhere these days. A couple of people take an interest in Pokemon Cards for example and before you know it, the whole world is doing. In Hollywood, it's exactly the same. There are four big fads floating about in Hollywood at the moment: 1) Adventure/Epics : those big budget box office tyrants that not only try to sweep the box office but the award ceremonies as well. 2) Comic Book Adaptations : Spider-Man, X-Men, Daredevil, The Hulk, ...
...that's not all, we have The Punisher, Fantastic Four and Hellboy to look forward to in the near future... 3) Sequel Franchises : yes, filmmakers today have become better businessmen than storytellers with endless sequels for films that sometimes aren't too good in the first place to rake in the money. 4) Remakes of old films/TV shows : an unhealthy amount of TV shows have been adapted into films including Charlie's Angels, Starskey & Hutch and ...

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After being dropped from the SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) squad, due to a bungled mission, Officer Jim Street (Colin Farrell) chooses to swallow his pride and work in the stations gun cage, servicing guns and polishing shoes, whilst his partner quits the force. When Sgt. Dan "Hondo" Harrelson (Samuel L. Jackson) arrives at the police precinct with the task of creating a new SWAT team, he sees the potential in Detective Street and offers him ...
...the new SWAT team is ready for action. Their first job is to escort drug lord Alex Montel (Olivier Martinez) out of Los Angeles and into the hands of the Feds. The cunning Montel offers a huge reward to anyone who can bust him out. This makes the SWAT team's job a lot more difficult as their job is compromised by a band of ruthless mercenaries. SWAT is loosely based on the American television series of the 70's and thankfully they decided to set ...

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You've probably all seen the adverts for the film - arrested villain offering LOADS OF MONEY! ( $100M for anyone who's interested ) to anyone who get's him out. - sounds like the start of a good action movie, doesn't it ? Well it might have been, if that were the start of the movie, unfortunately all those adverts were completely misleading, this is barely half the film ( though admittedly the better half ). Apparently it was based on a 70s TV series, ...
...think the title is a misnomer as it isn't really about SWAT so much as about greed. The first half of the film is seems to be there mainly to set the scene for the second half ( the action part ) and supposedly provide character development. The film actually starts with a bank robbery, bullets flying everywhere as the villains seem to have gone mad and are shooting off automatic weapons indiscriminately with the SWAT team cooly taking them out ...

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...new venture for this genre S.W.A.T. (Special Weapons And Tactics). This real life organisation is America's top urban passification department and is called out for armed sieges, terrorist acts etc. where the ordinary police force can't manage (as the bill-board say's 'Even cops dial 911). It is also loosely based on a 1970s TV show of the same name (most of the character names are the same and a few of the original cast make cameo's as well). ...
...named Jim Street (Hollywood golden boy Colin Farrell). Street and his partner Brian Gamble (Jeremy Renner) are part of a siege breaking team. The reckless Gamble moves early and the end result is an injured hostage suing the city. Gamble is kicked off the force, but Street is just busted down (leading his ex-partner to think he betrayed him). Cut forward in time and we see Street training in a Rocky-style way for re-selection to a new unit being ...

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...become fully fledged members of S.W.A.T. In comes the baddy of the film, Olivier Martinez, who plays “Alex Montel” wanted all over the world for weapons trafficking and murders. During a routine visit to LA, to kill his uncle, he is arrested for a broken light on the car he is driving. He announces on worldwide television that he will pay $100 million to whoever rescues him from prison, making his transfer to a federal prison slightly ...
...a 70’s TV series called S.W.A.T. and keeps the characters name and parts of their original traits, although updated as far as weapons etc. One of the special features on the disc is a feature on the TV series, worth watching as you can see how it all started. Not sure of the 70’s fashion though. A good cast give a great performance, as you would expect from the list of stars contained within it. Samuel Jackson plays the veteran, old school ...

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...considered a spoiler *** S.W.A.T. stars Colin Farrell and Samual L. Jackson... two of Hollywoods biggest stars at the moment, and for them to be in this film, you expect it to be a good one. The film starts of with an action scene set in what appears to be a suburban bank, with some bank robbers armed with AK47's holding hostages having a fire fight with police. The police are losing badly and call for S.W.A.T. to take control. Jim Street and his ...
...but are brought before the S.W.A.T. Captain and demoted. Gamble resigns in disgust, while Street accepts demotion in hope of getting another chance. Six months down the line, the L.A.P.D. is getting alot of bad press. Incidents are going wrong, and crime is on the up. The Police Chief has recruited an old S.W.A.T. master, by the name of Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson, played by Samuel L. Jackson. 'Hondo' is given the task of recruiting a crack team of S.W.A.T. ...

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...officers to form a crack S.W.A.T. unit (including Colin Farrell as Jim Street). Their job is to ensure recently captured drug-lord Alex Montel (Oliver Martinez) remains in federal custody. Unfortunately, whilst being transported to prison, he offers $100 million to any group of lowlifes willing to break him out. The acting all round is nothing special; it is the sort of role Samuel L. Jackson could do standing on his head. Asleep. The only thing ...
...of the actors in the S.W.A.T. team (L.L.Cool J, Michelle Rodriguez, and two other no marks) hardly get any screen time, appearing only as filler. The opening action sequence (with hostages in a bank) looked quite promising; the shoot out was reminiscent of the one in ‘Heat’. This quickly evaporated into the usual pedestrian, mainstream male bonding and gunplay. It seems to me the usual way a film of this nature works is to begin with one or two ...

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...was looking forward to seeing S.W.A.T. (special weapons and tactics) ever since i watched the American trailer July for the august 8th release there but i was amazed to find out that the UK release date was not till December which is very rare in a day where most films are released within a few weeks of each other both sides of the Atlantic or even on the same day (matrix 2+3, LOTR, X men 2 etc) so after a long 4 month wait I finally went to see ...
...worth the long wait to see as it was very entertaining and not just on of those action films where the best bits are in the trailer. Director: Clark Johnson (the shield) Cast: Samuel L Jackson (changing lanes, jakie brown) Colin Farrell (the recruit, phone booth) Michelle Rodriguez (resident evil, blue crush) LL Cool J (Deep blue sea, rollerball) Oliver Martinez (Unfaithful) Cert: 12A Run Time: 1hr 57min The Story: The basic plot is that ...

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This is a film with Colin Farrell and you will not be disappointed with this film. It has everything you need from a film with action in it. Colin Farrell plays Officer Jim Street who has been demoted in his job as a police officer after a mishap on his last job his partner left but Street decided to stock it out and go for the demotion, until Hondo played by Samuel L Jackson turns up at the station to create a new team for the forces SWAT. Hondo ...
...with various other troublesome people in the police force. Along with Street, are Deke Kay played by LL Cool J, Michael Boxer played by Brian Van Holt, T.J. McCabe played by Josh Charles and Chris Sanchez played by Michelle Rodriguez who all make the grade in Hondo's SWAT team. Their first job is to escort a drug dealer Alex Montel played by Olivier Martinez to prison, although this was not as easy as it was thought as he had offered anyone a cash ...

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...former member of the LAPD S.W.A.T. team, who lost his post because of the recklessness of his partner Brian Gamble. Brian quits the police but Jim stays on because he wants to get back in on the S.W.A.T. Much to the anger of Brian. Lt. Dan ‘Hondo’ Harrelson, he is an old school former S.W.A.T. team member who is called back into service to setup a special S.W.A.T. team consisting of five members only. Hondo picks Chris Sanchez a violent yet professional ...
...veteran, T J McCabe another S.W.A.T. veteran and Jim Street. Hondo’s S.W.A.T. team is issued the task of transporting a wanted criminal, Alex Montel, to a federal penitentiary. Before this happens Alex blurts out on Live TV that he will give $100, 000, 000 to anyone that breaks him out of his bondage and consequently entices a lot of bad, bad people to attempt to break him out with some devastating repercussions. Samuel L Jackson is perfectly cast ...

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What do you do when you have a mad man shooting at innocent people or a bank robbery which is getting worse as the second tick by? You call in the swat team but what do they do when they get into uncontrollable situations? When a drug lord offers $100 Million to anyone who gets him out of police custody the swat have a mission that is almost impossible to complete! Being attacked by gangs with a never ending supply of ammo and some daring guts. The ...
...planes being blown up to limos being destroyed. The story line is a good one but has been used many times before which may put some people off. The sound effects are out of this world with some deafening blasts as a shot gun is fired. The start of the film is brilliant and almost makes you feel that you are there watching the action as it happens, However the film does not continue like this to the end and after a while becomes a lot like similar ...

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...a wounded hostage who sues S.W.A.T. for millions Farrell and his partner are told they can either leave the force or go back to regular policework. His partner,chooses to leave but Farrell stays and earns his right to become S.W.A.T again. Next, a murderer offers $100 million to whoever breaks him out of jail and S.W.A.T have the task of babysitting the pretty french boy!However,things get messy when Farrell's shamed and bitter ex-patner decides ...
...on a bridge to avoid S.W.A.T. who are waiting at the airport and the following fight scenes are great too! I did enjoy this film a lot althought I would have liked to have seen the characters developed a little more, for example I would have liked to see how Farrell's character went from being in the Navy Seals to S.W.A.T. At the end I was left feeling like there would be S.W.A.T.2, S.W.A.T : UNDER FIRE or any number of sequels to follow. I'm not ...

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If you like action/police films then SWAT is one to watch. Whilst the storyline is not the most developed ever it does have a very good basic storyline, about a criminal billionaire who gets captured and offers a reward on live on American News to anyone who free's him. Most of the film is about the SWAT team trying to prevent their prisinor from being freed and then chasing him down once he is. Colin Farrel gives an excelent performance as Street ...
...SWAt team. The film is made more interesting with some good character interaction and the fact that Hondo and Streets boss doesnt like either of them and wants them to fail so that they get kicked of SWAT. Have watched SWAt countless times and still havn't got bored of it. Would definatly reccommend it as a top choice of film to watch! ...

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I was a little optimistic when this first came out, on wether i should buy it. But despite everything i did and what a mistake it was. Story. 9/10 The story is good on this film. A SWAT opporative gets the sack and comes back. I won't say anymore. SOUNDTRACK 10/10 This is an awsome soundtrack. Time Is Running Out. No faults. I was a little optimistic when this first came out, on wether i should buy it. But despite everything i did and what a ...

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