Supelice Dreadfully Boring

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

gregjkerr I quite enjoyed the first Swat with Colin Farrell and Samuel L Jackson but this one was absolutely terrible. Cheesy is spot on. From the terrible acting to the constant high 5'ing. It was so full of cliché's like the main guy goes to sort out a raggedy bunch of Swat from Detroit, where he bumps into the glamorous Police shrink and has a romance with her. How come when he's training the men, he's a crack shot, who can run full speed and still hit the fly off a dog's back. But the second he's up against the bad guy, his bullets are going everywhere but hitting the baddie?? A feeble attempt to build up the suspense!!! Awful film from start to finish!!

funkcanna OK, let me first say that this is my first ever review - I was compelled to write one based on simply how BAD this movie is. The only reason I didn't give it a 1 is because I have seen worse. Another reason I felt angry enough to write a review is because I normally like these kind of movies. Normally all you have to do is include something like SWAT, SAS or Marines in the description of the movie and point me towards it and I will lap it up. Unfortunately however, SWAT: Firefight only succeeded for me in one regard - it has SWAT in its title. The story is just weak, really weak. Just when you feel it is about to get going, it literally ends. Its cliché to an extreme and about as predictable a movie I have ever seen. I wont go on but to summarize, this is just a bad movie. If you want some decent SWAT like viewing entertainment, I recommend Flashpoint (Canadian TV Series) or possibly watching paint dry could also be considered a viable alternative.

mugaliens No, it's nowhere as good. The acting is two steps below no matter how one considers it. Robert Patrick, you should have stayed away from this project, as your acting requires better direction. As for the directors, the screen direction is actually what carries this movie! Very good! It's the personal interplay that tubes it, originating at the shoddy interplay between characters at the original script level.What I did enjoy about the movie, at least for the first half of the movie is that is seemed on the legit. Everything rang true. Then, things just sort of dissolved into a messy ending.This is a clear case of why multiple agencies should be involved in various stages of the screenplay as it develops, while there must always be someone with their finger on the button coordination all efforts from all sides so that By the way, I am so sick of "1-sec until she blows!" endings it's not even funny. Hollywood writers, STOP IT. Pop a boil on you backside and grow a brain. That's not the way to do it.Back to the picture, the lead character simply didn't have anywhere near the moxie to pull it. I don't have the face, but neither does Machete' star, either. He get's it, perhaps because of his prison background. So do I, perhaps because of my military background. This guy? He's a sty-faced stand-in trying to act tough in many situations in which so many Americans have not only been in, but in which they've already proved their worth.If you'd like to talk about capturing military experience, talk to the military. Or at least those of us who've been there, done that.

sunraider This movie was available ON DEMAND, so I thought I'd give it a chance, mostly because it starred Gabriel Macht, an actor I've enjoyed in supporting roles in major films. The movie starts off well: Sgt. Cutler, an LAPD SWAT leader with a military background (Macht) is sent to Detroit to train-up their SWAT team for some special Federal hostage/rescue certification. The film takes the time to develop the team members to some degree and includes the requisite tension between the new officer and the locals that leads to one of the more senior Detroit SWAT members, Kellogg, being "re-assigned," despite the fact that he's by far the team's best sniper. I can't speak to the veracity of any of the training techniques that are presented in the movie as being updated, post-Iraq and Afganistan procedures, but it made sense to this lay person and was interesting to watch.When Cutler brings in a female, former soldier sight unseen (no police training or certifications; no knowledge of Detroit and Michigan state law), it's not very plausible, but it was easy to overlook since it was fun to watch the team interact. The movie falls apart when, instead of being a movie about a SWAT leader and his team going up against the bad guy, it becomes a one man against the bad guy movie with the team fading into the background. Why take the time to build chemistry between and among the team leader and his squad only to have them relegated to the background? I would have bet the mortgage that Kellogg, the best shot in the Department, would show up to help Sgt. Cutler take down the bad guy. He shows up, but only to be told to stay behind (which he does!).But the worst part is the dismal ending. The Detroit police chief in charge of the SWAT teams asks Sgt. Cutler to stay on after the team's been decimated. But Cutler says he wants to go home. End of movie. Someone forgot to tell the screenwriter that the hero's supposed to have finally found his home and wouldn't dream of leaving his new buddies. Overall, not totally bad, but nearly so.