S.W.A.T. Reviews

On paper, this movie sounded really awesome. Indeed, a movie dealing with a S.W.A.T. team made of Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Jeremy Renner, LL Cool J and Michelle Rodriguez could and should have been really badass. At some point, some directors such as Zach Snyder, Michael Bay, Tony Scott, John Woo, Antoine Fuqua, Rob Cohen, Joel Schumacher, and Michael Mann were all offered the opportunity to direct this flick but they were all too busy and eventually a guy called Clark Johnson took over this project. Never heard of him? Me neither and apparently, he is a rather obscure director who mostly did some TV shows. Anyway, how was the movie actually? It was actually rather entertaining but still nothing amazing though. The main issue is that they chose to go for the standard action stuff instead of a more gritty realistic approach. So, the action scenes were not bad but honestly nothing I haven’t seen 100 times before. Same thing about the story, it was really generic and the characters were hardly developed as well. It is a real shame because with such a cast and such a concept, it could have been a really interesting action flick but they didn’t want to take any risk, that’s pretty obvious. To conclude, I think I’m rather generous with my rating, but the cast was really cool and the whole thing was pretty entertaining so I think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre, but don’t expect anything really amazing.

The hype alone wasn't enough to save this film as the star power failed to deliver the goods. The action sequences were over the top, and anyone who believes that this is the what SWAT goes through is out of their minds.