Synopsis
Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough Deke Kay and single mom Chris Sanchez. The team's first big assignment is to escort crime boss Alex Montel to prison. It seems routine, but when Montel offers a huge reward to anyone who can break him free, criminals of various stripes step up for the prize.
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Cast
- Samuel L. JacksonSgt. Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson
- Colin FarrellJim Street
- Michelle RodriguezChris Sanchez
- LL Cool JDeacon 'Deke' Kay
- Josh CharlesT.J. McCabe
- Jeremy RennerBrian Gamble
- Brian Van HoltMichael Boxer
- Olivier MartinezAlex Montel
- Domenick LombardozziGQ
- Reg E. CatheyLt. Greg Velasquez
Recommendations
- 70
Washington Post
While the movie is stupid, it is -- hooray, and let's put this in all the national ads! -- not appallingly stupid. - 70
Washington Post
Offers up the kind of pleasures that only a summer movie can...The cast is good-looking, the soundtrack is loud, the plot is stupid. - 63
New York Daily News
The standout in the cast is James Todd Smith, whose acting talent may soon persuade him to shed his adolescent stage name of LL Cool J and concentrate on mainstream film roles. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Actor-turned-director Clark Johnson uses the flashy, up-to-the-minute editing and camera stunts action fans expect, but keeps the mayhem on a recognizably human scale — it's big, but not insanely overblown. - 50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It's just one more competent but routine, midlevel ($70 million) late-summer action movie filled with the usual explosions, shootouts and male bonding. - 50
New York Magazine (Vulture)
There is something sneakily gratifying about all this: Not since the days of "Earthquake" have Hollywood producers so indulged their fantasies of trashing the town. - 50
Boston Globe
Those who love police overkill, guns, jingoistic race-baiting, guns, macho smugness, and guns will be well served. - 38
Baltimore Sun
S.W.A.T. may be an acronym for Special Weapons and Tactics, but by the end of this routine melodrama, it might as well stand for Standard Whacking and Trashing.
