S.W.A.T.
S.W.A.T. is a 2003 American action crime thriller film directed by Clark Johnson and written by David Ayer and David McKenna, with the story credited to Ron Mita and Jim McClain. Produced by Neal H. Moritz, it is based on the 1975 television series of the same name and stars Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, LL Cool J, Josh Charles, Jeremy Renner, Brian Van Holt and Olivier Martinez. The plot follows Hondo (Jackson) and his SWAT team as they are tasked to escort an imprisoned drug kingpin/international fugitive to prison after he offers a $100 million reward to anyone who can break him out of police custody.
Plot
Los Angeles Police Department SWAT officer Jim Street, his partner Brian Gamble, and their team infiltrate a bank taken hostage by robbers (in a scene loosely based on the North Hollywood shootout), where Gamble disobeys orders and engages the robbers, causing a hostage to sustain injuries. He and Street manage to subdue the criminals but are taken off the SWAT team by Captain Fuller, the commanding officer of the LAPD Metropolitan Division. Fuller offers Street a chance to rejoin the team by implicating Gamble, but he refuses and is therefore demoted to working at the police inventory. Gamble, under the assumption that Street ratted on him to stay on SWAT, quits the force and ends their friendship.
Cast
- Ashley Scott
- Brian Van Holt
- Clark Johnson
- Colin Egglesfield
- Colin Farrell
- Denis Arndt
- Domenick Lombardozzi
- E. Roger Mitchell
- Jeremy Renner
- Josh Charles
- Ken Davitian
- LL Cool J
- Lucinda Jenney
- Matt Gerald
- Michelle Rodriguez
- Octavia Spencer
- Olivier Martinez
- Page Kennedy
- Reed Diamond
- Reg E. Cathey
- Samuel L. Jackson
More details
| author | David Ayer David McKenna Robert Hamner |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Los Angeles |
| director | Clark Johnson |
| editor | Michael Tronick |
| events | LAPD SWAT |
| genre | action crime thriller |
| keywords | ambush armed robbery b line battering ram chief of police commanding officer criminal empire drug lord federal prison force gang member hawthorne airport hawthorne municipal airport interpol kill lapd metropolitan division los angeles county sheriff\'s department los angeles police department north hollywood north hollywood shootout pass police department sheriff\'s deputies sixth street bridge sixth street viaduct subway swat swat team want wound |
| musicBy | Elliot Goldenthal |
| producer | Chris Lee Dan Halsted Neal H. Moritz |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures Original Film |
| publisher | Sony Pictures Releasing |
| recordedAt | Ambassador Hotel |
| theme | hood |