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Bookmark this pageS.W.A.T. (2003)
Director: Clark Johnson
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From Time Out Film Guide
In a set-up lifted wholesale from Dirty Harry threepeat The Enforcer, and in a movie rehashed from a '70s TV show, Street and Gamble (Ferrell and Renner), of the LAPD special weapons unit, defuse a bank robbery at the cost of wounding a hostage. Street swallows a demotion, but catches the eye of Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson (Jackson), a new commando sent to spruce up the department's sullied image with a fresh recruitment of SWAT-heads. The green team receives its first assignment after a drug kingpin Martel offers $100m to anyone who can spring him from police custody. The high definition SWAT training footage resembles a US Army recruitment ad, appropriate since TV journeyman Johnson imagines downtown LA as an unpatrolled Baghdad, swarming with guntotin' mercenaries pursuing their share of the bounty. JWin.Author: JWin
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- Posted on Apr 22 2008 16:52 Great film love the balance of dramatised gun violence with the simple easy to read story line which is very realistic. 10 out of 10!
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Cast & crew
Director: Clark Johnson
Producer: Neal H Moritz, Dan Halsted, Chris Lee
Cast: Samuel L Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, James Todd Smith aka LL Cool J, Josh Charles, Jeremy Renner, Brian Van Holt, Olivier Martinez, Reginald E Cathey full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 117 mins
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