According to the internet movie database, the basic premise of the movie S.W.A.T. that I saw on the plane is, “An imprisoned drug kingpin offers a huge cash reward to anyone that can break him out of police custody and only the LAPD’s Special Weapons and Tactics team can prevent it”. It’s about all you need to know really.
If you read this site a great deal you will know that I have a strange love of action movies. I think they are – by and large – a huge waste of time and yet I constantly enjoy them and will watch the same one again and again. This would be no exception. The plot could be passed off as a true story – more or less – but (and correct me if you’re in LA) helicopters be shot out of the sky and races through the subway tunnels can not be an every day/week/year occurrence.
Still, Colin Farrell is Jim Street the cop on the boundaries who makes good and Samuel L. Jackson is always enjoyable in everything he does. Even LL Cool J was good and it’s always good to see Josh Charles on the screen.
Go an enjoy this movie and then see Colin in the Man of the Moment section.