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Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, Jeremy Renner
Directed by: Clark Johnson
Screenplay by: David Ayer
Release Date: August 8th, 2003
Running Time: 102 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence, language, sexual references.
Box Office: $116,934,650 (US total)
Studio: Columbia Pictures
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 Colin Farrell, Brian Van Hot, LL Cool J, , Michelle Rodriguz and Samuel L. Jackson in S.W.A.T: |
 S.W.A.T. Production NotesBased on the 1970s TV series of the same title, this film follows a squad of Los Angeles' Special Weapons and Tactics assigned to protect a drug kingpin who has offered a $100 million reward to anyone who can free him from the cops. Samuel L. Jackson plays a grizzled S.W.A.T. veteran who's in charge of the venture.
S.W.A.T. is a character-driven action-adventure built around a story of redemption, about men and women whose mission is to defuse the most volatile situations faced by policemen in the line of duty.
S.W.A.T. is also a study in personality contrasts and how they shape an individual’s destiny. Two devoted S.W.A.T. officers, Jim Street (Colin Farrell) and his partner, Brian Gamble (Jeremy Renner), are reprimanded and demoted after making a controversial call during a bank robbery and hostage crisis. Gamble quits the L.A.P.D. in disgust rather than submit to punishment, while Street decides to stay on, laying low, hoping for another shot someday. Their respective decisions will alter the course of their lives.
 For Street, the demotion becomes a path to salvation when he meets Sergeant “Hondo” Harrelson (Samuel L. Jackson), who has returned to S.W.A.T. from another division with a mandate to create a new team. Like Street, his motive is to redeem his past. His longtime nemesis, Capt. Thomas Fuller (Larry Poindexter), is doing everything in his power to ensure that Hondo fails. As with Street, Hondo refuses to let detractors get in his way. He doggedly moves forward, putting together the best team the L.A.P.D. has to offer.
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