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Anyone see it? Thoughts? Personally, it was better than I thought it would be.

Same here. I was expecting a really dumb police movie, but got a fairly entertaining one. I especially liked that Street tried to avoid using his right hand after it being damaged instead of miraculously healing the massive damage such a wound would cause.

That plus the fact that I was with a friend I haven't seen in three years who understood my reference to "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!" made it a fairly worthwhile movie.

My thoughts;

I loved the movie.
Lots of action, a fairly plausible plot, and a solid job by the cast added up to an enjoyable experience.
The only complaint I have is the director's excessive use of the 'revolving camera' technique.


Pay attention when they're in the pizza joint celebrating passing their training exercise. Rod Perry has a cameo as Deacon Kay's (LL Cool J's character) father. Rod played Deacon on the TV show back in 1975. Steve Forrest (Hondo in the TV series) also has a cameo as the SWAT van driver at the end of the movie.


Product placement is alive and well. When Street's girlfriend leaves him, she's packing up knicknacks into a carton for a Sony boombox and all of the consumer electronics used throughout the movie are Sonys. Of course, Sony owning the studio has nothing to do with this, right?

The guns. Lots of tricked out M4's, Kimber .45's, a few MP5's and a Benelli shotgun. A few Beretta 92F's also make an appearance.
In the original TV series, they carried 1911's in shoulder rigs and M16A1 rifles with a single 20 round magazine and no spares.

The SWAT van in the movie doesn't look like a repainted UPS truck like the one in the series did.


All in all, I find myself agreeing with Roger Ebert's review of the movie:

"S.W.A.T. is a well-made police thriller, nothing more. No Academy Awards. But in a time when so many action pictures are mindless assaults on the eyes, ears and intelligence, it works as superior craftsmanship."