S.W.A.T. Critic Reviews

As the team leader, Jackson finds exactly the right tone for the role: a sort of playful cockiness that comes from knowing just how good he is. He's clearly having fun, but he never winks at the audience too much or allows his performance to devolve into camp. Read the full review

One of the best cop thrillers since "Training Day." Read the full review

Aware of its own cuteness because the dialogue plays by the rules of meta-entertainment.Read the full review

While the movie is stupid, it is -- hooray, and let's put this in all the national ads! -- not appallingly stupid. Read the full review

Offers up the kind of pleasures that only a summer movie can...The cast is good-looking, the soundtrack is loud, the plot is stupid.Read the full review

Those who love police overkill, guns, jingoistic race-baiting, guns, macho smugness, and guns will be well served. Read the full review

By the time you've given up guessing whether S.W.A.T. wants to be a half-serious action pic or just affably jokey, its storytelling has turned so ludicrously melodramatic that it doesn't matter. Read the full review

Though the film's second half has some good action moments, it never fulfills the promise of its earliest scenes. Read the full review

What we have here is a model for the paint-by-numbers, perfectly generic, proudly soulless summer action flick. An original idea would die for lack of oxygen in S.W.A.T.Read the full review