This story is so far out that it overshadows the acting of Sam Jackson. People, as much as the producers brag about technical accuracy and how the cast "trained with actual SWAT officers", the terribly written screenplay asks anyone over 11 to make a huge leap of faith to believe the plot.
Things like this don't happen! And Police Departments like this don't behave this way! We see several scenes of the tightly-knit , newly formed five -person team working hard, then partying off-duty, then apparently driving home to sleep it off and await another day. The stereotyping is very bad.
Example? An international terrorist financier makes a plea for help in escaping and within 2 hours several diverse gang groups devise highly-technical rescue strategies and attempts bringing the LAPD to its knees! These gang homies apparently have the ability to hire people to pose as City workers, homeless people, and others to devise their rescue plans against large protection entourages with complex counter-surveillance routing through the streets of Los Angeles.
So, a five-person SWAT team is given complete autonomy to conduct transportation, rescue, and investigation of said terrorist, while Federal authorities, the people traditionally tasked with such incredible operations, show up in the very end to observe!
Hundreds of people are hurt in a several seemingly mass casualty shootings and car wrecks, yet very few actually die despite carnage from the streets of Baghdad! A rescue of the terrorist is attempted by one of the SWAT team members who apparently believes that he can orchestrate a rescue and fly the terrorist out of the country, and that the terrorist will pay him millions of dollars. A chase involving the LA Metro system and a sewer chase stretch even a little -leaguer's capacity to believe.
Add to that the macho, phony images, and "Jerry Bruckheimer-style" back stories for the cast, and well, SWAT goes waaaaay over the top!
Things like this don't happen! And Police Departments like this don't behave this way! We see several scenes of the tightly-knit , newly formed five -person team working hard, then partying off-duty, then apparently driving home to sleep it off and await another day. The stereotyping is very bad.
Example? An international terrorist financier makes a plea for help in escaping and within 2 hours several diverse gang groups devise highly-technical rescue strategies and attempts bringing the LAPD to its knees! These gang homies apparently have the ability to hire people to pose as City workers, homeless people, and others to devise their rescue plans against large protection entourages with complex counter-surveillance routing through the streets of Los Angeles.
So, a five-person SWAT team is given complete autonomy to conduct transportation, rescue, and investigation of said terrorist, while Federal authorities, the people traditionally tasked with such incredible operations, show up in the very end to observe!
Hundreds of people are hurt in a several seemingly mass casualty shootings and car wrecks, yet very few actually die despite carnage from the streets of Baghdad! A rescue of the terrorist is attempted by one of the SWAT team members who apparently believes that he can orchestrate a rescue and fly the terrorist out of the country, and that the terrorist will pay him millions of dollars. A chase involving the LA Metro system and a sewer chase stretch even a little -leaguer's capacity to believe.
Add to that the macho, phony images, and "Jerry Bruckheimer-style" back stories for the cast, and well, SWAT goes waaaaay over the top!