flick. I was never bored. I never checked my watch. I was having too much fun watching this to be worried about anything else. Great entertainment.

received many awards. So I recommend this movie!!

such a realistic view of this amazing line of work.

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.

chemistry with Colin Farrell.Overall, this is the typical fare of action movies with explosions and stuff like that. I did like the airplane landing on the bridge scene. I rate this film 9/10.

audience simply because it takes place in reality. The movie downplays a lot of the pointless action that's common in most summer blockbusters in favor of realism and characters. I believe Samuel L. Jackson's character says something along the lines of "you only roll in John Woo movies." How amazing, intelligent words coming from an intelligent actor in an intelligent movie.None of the characters in "S.W.A.T." are cardboard cut-outs but people who live real lives they do have lives outside of work you know and we get to see real development between them; just so you know, even though we see only maybe 2-3 minute glimpses of the characters outside of their jobs, that's a lot more than we see in most action movies today. We see one character's family at a grocery store, we see another character on a date, one character attends their child's birthday party. You see, it's a movie that actually makes you care about the characters.In speaking about action, the action scenes are quite intense and realistic. The story concerns Jackson heading up a team of new recruits that includes Colin Farrell, LL Cool J and Michelle Rodriguez to escort a European crime lord Olivier Martinez to an isolated prison in the desert. Only problem is, said criminal has promised $100 million to anyone who can help him escape, which means hell for Jackson and crew, and getting out of Los Angeles in one piece.I just described the story's biggest action set piece the escort of Martinez's character out of the city , which is incredibly staged and executed. I have never heard of the director Clark Johnson but I must say he did a good job with this film. If only more summer action movies were like "S.W.A.T." Then maybe going to the movies in the summertime would be more rewarding.

Through Performance of the Year" is on target, as he did a terrific job portraying Gamble.It's a fairly straightforward plot, with the usual, but quite entertaining twists and turns. It really doesn't lag anywhere but keeps on moving, and the twists, if not particularly moving, are at least entertaining.In all, I'd much rather watch this movie than a cliff-hanger ending thriller that drags you through the first 120 minutes on the promise of a "big finale." The finale here isn't at the end, but rather, is embedded throughout the movie itself.