While I wouldn’t call it a action movie masterpiece, “S.W.A.T.” is a decent iteration of the television series that broadens its appeal for a younger audience. While I would have loved a movie that was darker and grittier, the movie works as a comic book kind of movie about the S.W.A.T. unit that look kind of like law enforcing Avengers. The 2003 action crime thriller flaunts every would-be super star and up and coming superstar, taking the S.W.A.T. team and turning it on its head when corruption reaches even its ranks.
Category Archives: Movie Reviews
Phantom Thread (2018)
In one of the most known fashion Maison of 1950’s London, Reynolds Woodcock runs his business and life the same way, his way. His habits, demands, and eccentricities are to be followed by all or risk dismissal. After meeting the young Alma, he refuses to let things change, until she takes things in her own hands and finds her own way to make him happy.
Desolation (2018)
Following a whirlwind romance, Katie follows Jay to Los Angeles to spend a few more days with him. After he has to leave for work, she is left alone in his apartment where odd things are happening at an accelerating rate.
Den of Thieves (2018)
A group of bank thieves has come onto the radar of the LA Sheriff’s special unit. As they plan an audacious heist, the Sheriff and his men are doing all they can to stop them.
The Misguided (2018)
After getting mixed into something with his brother Wendel, Levi must find a way to help his brother and not lose Sanja, his new girlfriend with whom he is planning to leave town.
Proud Mary (2018)
More “Leon: The Professional” than “Atomic Blonde,” Babak Najafi’s “Proud Mary” is a classic tribute to the blaxploitation films of the seventies that wears its intentions on its sleeves. It’s a film that feels like it would have been made in 1978 with Pam Grier as Mary, Bernie Casey as her ex-lover mobster boss. I wouldn’t be quick to call it a masterpiece, but through and through, it’s a sweet tribute, with some well drawn characters that’s almost brought down by its flaws in storytelling and editing.
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Luis Buñuel’s 1962 feature has inspired debate and discussion for more than a half-century. It would not be rude to say that it could also inspire impatience and boredom.