Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

hyped garbage

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I have been looking for a new hobby and watching this movie convinced me that writing screenplays is well within my abilities. All I have to do is watch any blockbuster cop movie from the 80's, change the actors and come up with a catch phrase for the leading actor. If I can convince someone to fund it and make a movie out of it, then I get to meet some of my favorite washed up actors. I feel so much better about myself.As for the movie, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent: Paul Cutler (aka John McClane), Walter Hatch (aka Hans Gruber), Inspector Hollander (aka Sgt. Al Powell), Kim Byers (aka Holly McClane) and McKittrick (aka Fritz). As for catch phrase, She died for your sins, now you die for yours (aka This time John Wayne does not walk off into the sunset with Grace Kelly).Too bad this movie didn't take place during Christmas as that would have been icing on the cake. Having a single name bad guy sidekick (McKittrick) was a good touch. I'm waiting for SWAT Hard 2 then SWAT Hard with a Vengeance, Live Free or SWAT Hard and finally A Good Day to SWAT Hard.

I'm a big fan of the original S.W.A.T. movie. It takes excitement to the next level. This unrelated sequel is a surprisingly competent, and well formed movie. It could just about stretch into theaters, but a quiet DVD release was probably best. The movie takes SWAT up against some stalker boyfriend. Not much of a threat, but as the movie progresses, we get some twists and turns which escalate it into true movie territory. A real film about SWAT life would be great, but these action ones are simple guilty entertainment. Macht is a decent lead, and shouldn't be relegated to such movies for life. Sure, The Spirit was painful to watch, listen to, and think about, but he isn't completely to blame. Patrick is always a decent villain, even if he does look a bit out of shape for some of his stunts.

This movie is a 5 out of 10 at best. You know I love movies about SWAT teams, I love guns (although never actually held one) but this movie didn't make me feel the thing; even though they tried. Maybe that was the problem, they tried too hard. You know... scenes with the gearing up and the cameras mounted on the guns and the battering ram... And of course every cliché you can think of is present, like the bomb defused when only 1 second remains on the timer. And let's not forget the errors. For example shooting a guy in the hand with a water grenade when he holds a gun, I mean come on, that's just stupid. Or just to mention another one, the main character first sees the wounded cop then investigates the house and finally he calls the ambulance. Come on! I know he loves his girlfriend (he just met) but in the meantime the other cop is dying! Stupid, stupid, stupid.I'm not saying you shouldn't watch the movie but don't expect too much. If you want to see something really good, watch "Flashpoint" instead. Now that is a cool movie. Not because they shoot every bad guy in "Flashpoint" but because they save lives. Not just the hostages' lives, everyone's. And you'll be glad when they won't fire their gun.

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.