S.W.A.T. (Blu-Ray)

S.W.A.T. (Blu-Ray)

2003 - Action/Adventure - Clark Johnson - English - 12 years and over - Samuel L. Jackson, Michelle Rodriguez, Josh Charles, Colin Farrell, L.L. Cool J. more

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Samuel L Jackson and Colin Farrell swagger throughS.W.A.T., a guns-and-big-trucks macho ... more
extravaganza based on the 1970s TV show of the
same name, in which police teams are brought in to
take care of extremely dangerous situations.
Jackson plays a sergeant brought out of retirement
to form a new squad, which includes rebellious
Farrell and tough babe Michelle Rodriguez.After a
lot of training and head-butting with a smarmy
police captain, the squad gets assigned to
transfer the head of a European crime cartel
(Olivier Martinez) who's declared on television
that he'll give $100 million to anyone who gets
him out. Every scumbag in Los Angeles descends to
claim the money, turning a routine transfer into a
bullet-filled gauntlet. Despite some gaps in logic
and a generic flavour,S.W.A.T.will satisfy most
action-movie junkies. --Bret Fetzer
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S.W.A.T./Stealth/Vantage Point (Triple Pack) [Blu-ray] [2003] S.W.A.T./Stealth/Vantage Point (Triple Pack) [Blu-ray] [2003]
S.W.A.T.Samuel L Jackson and Colin Farrell swagger throughS.W.A.T., a guns-and-big-trucks ... more
macho extravaganza based on the 1970s TV show of
the same name, in which police teams are brought
in to take care of extremely dangerous situations.
Jackson plays a sergeant brought out of retirement
to form a new squad, which includes rebellious
Farrell and tough babe Michelle Rodriguez.After a
lot of training and head-butting with a smarmy
police captain, the squad gets assigned to
transfer the head of a European crime cartel
(Olivier Martinez) who's declared on television
that he'll give $100 million to anyone who gets
him out. Every scumbag in Los Angeles descends to
claim the money, turning a routine transfer into a
bullet-filled gauntlet. Despite some gaps in logic
and a generic flavour,S.W.A.T.will satisfy most
action-movie junkies. --Bret
FetzerStealthFeaturing the best special effects
that money can buy and a screenplay that any
six-year-old could follow,Stealthis a pure action
thriller that starts fast and never slows
down.Moving up fromThe Fast and the FuriousandxXx,
director Rob Cohen proves himself as a master of
popcorn entertainment for teenagers, turning this
derivative military sci-fi action thriller into a
dazzling showcase for impressive aerial action
sequences, featuring digital effects and highly
detailed model work (by James Cameron's Digital
Domain effects company, among others) that are so
realistic you could swear the movie's high-tech
aircraft are absolutely real. The plot serves the
effects (it should be the other way around), and
it's a cheesy hybrid ofTop Gun,The Right
Stuff,FirefoxandBehind Enemy Lines, in which a
close-knit trio of Naval Air Force aces (Josh
Lucas, Jessica Biel, and Jamie Foxx) pilot
state-of-the-art "Talon" fighter-bombers, ready to
scramble on orders from their not-entirely
trustworthy commander (Sam Shepard). They're
teamed up with an ultra-high-tech UCAV (Unmanned
Combat Aerial Vehicle) nicknamed "EDI," an
artificially intelligent fighter drone that's as
erratically dangerous (after its circuitry is
damaged by lightning) as it is deadly
effective.With a standard third-act rescue mission
amidst the threat of global warfare,Stealthis
brainless entertainment from start to finish, but
the aerial action and epic-scale pyrotechnics
ensure that it's never, ever boring. Cohen may be
guilty of dumbing down his recycled plots for mass
appeal, but there's no denying his skills as an
action auteur. Move over, Michael Bay, you've got
serious competition.--Jeff ShannonVantage
PointVantage Point, which aspires to be a
cunningly twisted thriller, comes equipped with
plenty of hurtling action, handheld camerawork,
what-was-that? editing, and a plot that has
multiple, contradictory agendas writhing like a
nest of snakes. It's all set within a few blocks
of a town square in Spain where a U.S. President
is targeted for assassination. Although the movie
lasts 90 minutes, the events it depicts are mostly
over within fifteen minutes or so--but seen,
rewound, and reseen from half a dozen different
(you guessed it) vantage points. The first line in
the credits reads "Original Film," apparently the
name of the production company. "Gimmick Movie"
might be more accurate. The opening reel,
effectively jolting, affords an initial overview
of the events through the eyes, lenses, monitors,
and duelling sensibilities of a TV news producer
(Sigourney Weaver), her activist-minded reporter
(Zoe Saldana) and crew. Everybody’s in
Salamanca for the start of an international
conference to reaffirm Arab-Western commitment to
the fight against terrorism. Terrorism, of course,
sees this as an ideal moment to break out. As
gunshots and explosions reduce everything to
chaos, the clock is reset to zero and we proceed
to revisit the scene as experienced by several
Secret Service agents (namely Dennis Quaid and
Matthew Fox), an American tourist with camcorder
(Forest Whitaker), sundry locals--including three
who may be caught up in a love triangle or a
conspiracy or both--and even the President himself
(William Hurt).For a while, this is mildly
diverting: that guy, or that gesture, so sinister
when glimpsed across the plaza in one run-through,
now appears harmless in closeup--or vice versa.
But there's no real ambiguity (so stop with the
careless comparisons to Kurosawa'sRashomon)--this
is a shell game in which the peas aren't worth
tracking. Despite decent actors, the characters
might as well be holograms (although poor Forest
Whitaker is saddled with "motivation" of
surpassing sappiness), and the casting telegraphs
several twists: one redoubtable good guy
practically gives a wink-wink, nudge-nudge that
he's really bad, etc. The movie declines to
specify which nutjob philosophy the terrorists
espouse, and their numbers are multi-ethnic.
There's also a laborious suggestion that they have
bloodthirsty, reactionary counterparts among the
President's inner circle, which perhaps qualifies
as redeeming socio-political comment and prompts a
meaningless declaration of deep meaning from the
Prez. The whole megilleh finally comes down to an
extended car chase through impassably
claustrophobic streets that would mark a lurch
into unintentional self-parody--if only that point
hadn't been passed a couple of rewinds
earlier.--Richard T. Jameson
£ 46.98

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S.W.A.T./Stealth/Vantage Point (Triple Pack) [Blu-ray] [2003] S.W.A.T./Stealth/Vantage Point (Triple Pack) [Blu-ray] [2003]
S.W.A.T.Samuel L Jackson and Colin Farrell swagger throughS.W.A.T., a guns-and-big-trucks ... more
macho extravaganza based on the 1970s TV show of
the same name, in which police teams are brought
in to take care of extremely dangerous situations.
Jackson plays a sergeant brought out of retirement
to form a new squad, which includes rebellious
Farrell and tough babe Michelle Rodriguez.After a
lot of training and head-butting with a smarmy
police captain, the squad gets assigned to
transfer the head of a European crime cartel
(Olivier Martinez) who's declared on television
that he'll give $100 million to anyone who gets
him out. Every scumbag in Los Angeles descends to
claim the money, turning a routine transfer into a
bullet-filled gauntlet. Despite some gaps in logic
and a generic flavour,S.W.A.T.will satisfy most
action-movie junkies. --Bret
FetzerStealthFeaturing the best special effects
that money can buy and a screenplay that any
six-year-old could follow,Stealthis a pure action
thriller that starts fast and never slows
down.Moving up fromThe Fast and the FuriousandxXx,
director Rob Cohen proves himself as a master of
popcorn entertainment for teenagers, turning this
derivative military sci-fi action thriller into a
dazzling showcase for impressive aerial action
sequences, featuring digital effects and highly
detailed model work (by James Cameron's Digital
Domain effects company, among others) that are so
realistic you could swear the movie's high-tech
aircraft are absolutely real. The plot serves the
effects (it should be the other way around), and
it's a cheesy hybrid ofTop Gun,The Right
Stuff,FirefoxandBehind Enemy Lines, in which a
close-knit trio of Naval Air Force aces (Josh
Lucas, Jessica Biel, and Jamie Foxx) pilot
state-of-the-art "Talon" fighter-bombers, ready to
scramble on orders from their not-entirely
trustworthy commander (Sam Shepard). They're
teamed up with an ultra-high-tech UCAV (Unmanned
Combat Aerial Vehicle) nicknamed "EDI," an
artificially intelligent fighter drone that's as
erratically dangerous (after its circuitry is
damaged by lightning) as it is deadly
effective.With a standard third-act rescue mission
amidst the threat of global warfare,Stealthis
brainless entertainment from start to finish, but
the aerial action and epic-scale pyrotechnics
ensure that it's never, ever boring. Cohen may be
guilty of dumbing down his recycled plots for mass
appeal, but there's no denying his skills as an
action auteur. Move over, Michael Bay, you've got
serious competition.--Jeff ShannonVantage
PointVantage Point, which aspires to be a
cunningly twisted thriller, comes equipped with
plenty of hurtling action, handheld camerawork,
what-was-that? editing, and a plot that has
multiple, contradictory agendas writhing like a
nest of snakes. It's all set within a few blocks
of a town square in Spain where a U.S. President
is targeted for assassination. Although the movie
lasts 90 minutes, the events it depicts are mostly
over within fifteen minutes or so--but seen,
rewound, and reseen from half a dozen different
(you guessed it) vantage points. The first line in
the credits reads "Original Film," apparently the
name of the production company. "Gimmick Movie"
might be more accurate. The opening reel,
effectively jolting, affords an initial overview
of the events through the eyes, lenses, monitors,
and duelling sensibilities of a TV news producer
(Sigourney Weaver), her activist-minded reporter
(Zoe Saldana) and crew. Everybody’s in
Salamanca for the start of an international
conference to reaffirm Arab-Western commitment to
the fight against terrorism. Terrorism, of course,
sees this as an ideal moment to break out. As
gunshots and explosions reduce everything to
chaos, the clock is reset to zero and we proceed
to revisit the scene as experienced by several
Secret Service agents (namely Dennis Quaid and
Matthew Fox), an American tourist with camcorder
(Forest Whitaker), sundry locals--including three
who may be caught up in a love triangle or a
conspiracy or both--and even the President himself
(William Hurt).For a while, this is mildly
diverting: that guy, or that gesture, so sinister
when glimpsed across the plaza in one run-through,
now appears harmless in closeup--or vice versa.
But there's no real ambiguity (so stop with the
careless comparisons to Kurosawa'sRashomon)--this
is a shell game in which the peas aren't worth
tracking. Despite decent actors, the characters
might as well be holograms (although poor Forest
Whitaker is saddled with "motivation" of
surpassing sappiness), and the casting telegraphs
several twists: one redoubtable good guy
practically gives a wink-wink, nudge-nudge that
he's really bad, etc. The movie declines to
specify which nutjob philosophy the terrorists
espouse, and their numbers are multi-ethnic.
There's also a laborious suggestion that they have
bloodthirsty, reactionary counterparts among the
President's inner circle, which perhaps qualifies
as redeeming socio-political comment and prompts a
meaningless declaration of deep meaning from the
Prez. The whole megilleh finally comes down to an
extended car chase through impassably
claustrophobic streets that would mark a lurch
into unintentional self-parody--if only that point
hadn't been passed a couple of rewinds
earlier.--Richard T. Jameson
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S.W.A.T. (Blu-Ray)

Release details

DVD Region: Region B

Studio(s): SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS

Release date: 16/10/2006

Catalogue No: SBR 34947

Barcode: 5050629494716

Languages

Main Language: English

Subtitle Language: Dutch, Finnish, Danish, Hebrew, Greek, Hindi, Czech, Norweigan, Hungarian, English, Arabic, Swedish, Turkish, Polish

Hearing Impaired Language: English

Technical information

Aspect Ratio: 2.40 Wide Screen

Sound: PCM 5.1

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DVD Description

Television director/actor Clark Johnson makes an impressive feature-film debut with S.W.A.T. Inspired by the 1970s show of the same name, S.W.A.T. is set in modern day Los Angeles. Recently demoted officer Jim Street (Colin Farrell) gets a chance to redeem himself when aging veteran Hondo (Samuel L. Jackson) is put in control of a new team. Joining Jim are Deke Kay (LL Cool J), Michael Boxer (Brian Van Holt), T.J. McCabe (Josh Charles), and Chris Sanchez (Michelle Rodriguez), all outcasts in their own right. But after an intense training period, the team is ready to hit the streets. Their first big assignment involves one of the world's most dangerous criminals, Alex Montel (Olivier Martinez), who makes an on-camera declaration that he'll give $100 million to whoever breaks him out of jail. Pretty soon, everyone's trying to get a piece of the action, including Jim's former partner, Brian Gamble (Jeremy Renner), who uses his own S.W.A.T. team experience to plot the escape of a lifetime. It's up to Hondo and Jim to outsmart the bad guys and make sure that Alex is safely transported to a federal penitentiary. S.W.A.T. is an entertaining adventure made all the more engaging because of the way Johnson concerns himself equally with the quality of the film's drama and its action.

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S.W.A.T. or I'll S.W.A.T you!
Review of S.W.A.T. DVD by  rockstar2020

Advantages: Great action scenes, Colin Farrell, Samuel.L.Jackson
Disadvantages: a predicable storyline

...If you like action movies, you'll like S.W.A.T.This film was hugely entertaining, very sexy and some of the lines made me laugh. This means that all-in-all I would recommend you go and see it. I think the formula for this film works well. The actors were perfectly cast for the story and for each other. I loved Jackson and Farrell's characters! They played off each other well, they had all the good lines too. The story no-matter how predictable, is still an entertaing one. After a failed seige in a bank and 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... Read review

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Review of S.W.A.T (2003) by  allyoxley

Advantages: Action-packed on the edge of the seat stuff
Disadvantages: if you don't like loud noise this isn't for you

...CERTIFIED 12 Columbia Pictures Produced by Neal H Moritz } Dan Halsted } The Fast and the Furious, xXx Chris Lee } Directed by Clark Hohnson Starring:- Samuel L Jackson (Pulp Fiction) Colin Farrell (Phone Booth, Minority Report) Michelle Rodriguez (The Fast and the Furious, currenlty LOST) LL Cool J (Deep Blue Sea) Oliver Martinez Brian Van Holt Jeremy Renner Josh Charles Special Features:- 2 Commentaries from the Cast and Director 8 Deleted Scenes The making of S.W.A.T Blooper Real Filmographies Theatrical Trailer S.W.A.T... Read review

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S.W.A.T.? So WAT
Review of S.W.A.T. DVD by  catwiggle72

Advantages: the opening sequence
Disadvantages: no other good action sequences

...I am a fan of big dumb action movies. I can watch Seagal, Van Damme, and even Hulk Hogan blowing things up or shooting and kicking people, but I didn’t enjoy this at all. Based on the short lived American TV show ‘S.W.A.T.’ (1975), this film is directed by Clark Johnson, better known for directing TV shows. Sgt. Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson (Samuel L. Jackson) trains five young gung-ho Police 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... Read review

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