S.W.A.T

S.W.A.T. is a 2003 action crime picture and is based on the 1975 television series of the same name. It was directed by Clark Johnson and stars Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, LL Cool J and Michelle Rodriguez.

The movie begins with a hostage situation in Los Angeles. Officer Jim Street (Farrell), a hot-shot cop from the Los Angeles Police Department and his SWAT team are sent to prevent a mob of robbers who have taken over a bank. His high-tempered collaborator and best friend Brian Gamble (Jeremy Renner) declines an instruction, and hurts a hostage. Gamble and Street are demoted by Captain Fuller (Larry Poindexter), the commander of LAPD's Metropolitan Division, who is portrayed as a picky martinet. Gamble quits following difference in opinion with Fuller and Street, the latter of whom is taken off the SWAT team and sent to work in the "gun cage," where he looks after gear and armaments.The Head of Police calls on Sergeant Dan "Hondo" Harrelson (Jackson) to help re-organize the SWAT division. Hondo is transferred in, and soon puts together a diverse team, including himself, Street, Chris Sánchez (Rodriguez), Deacon Kaye (LL Cool J), T.J. McCabe (Josh Charles), and Michael Boxer (Brian Van Holt). The team trains together and develops bonds of friendship.

Meanwhile, a drug lord by the name of Alex Montel (Olivier Martinez) murders his father and uncle for control of the family's corruption empire. The L.A.P.D. stop Montel for a ruined taillight, confine him, and find out through Interpol he is an international escapee. As they are transferring him, his friends, clothed as LAPD officers, attack the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department bus Montel is on, in an attempt to free him. Hondo's SWAT team foils the assault. As Montel is being brought into the police station in front of a group of journalists, he yells to them, "I will give one hundred million dollars to whoever gets me out of here."

The L.A.P.D. makes plans to transfer Montel into federal custody. They plan to fly him away, but a strange assailant (later exposed to be Gamble) shoots down the helicopter. The police next send out a big fleet, which is attacked by mob members. It turns out to be a trap, and Hondo's team has spirited Montel away in two S.U.V.s. However, T.J. has been planning with Gamble, and the two win in taking Montel from the other officers. Hondo and the rest give chase, and there is a final violent war, Gamble's group against the SWAT officers. Hondo's team is victorious. T.Jcommits suicide rather than be captured, and there is a nasty hand to hand war between Street and Gamble, with Street emerging the eventual victor when he kicks Gamble under the wheels of a passing train. The SWAT team delivers Montel to a federal prison to await judgment.

It was released in the United States on August 8, 2003. Reception for the picture was mixed, with a 48 (out of 100) on the movie reviews website Rotten Tomatoes.