It is not 2003 swat ofcourse, fast cuts, cheesy one liners, few fancy special effects. Plot is very simple, but it also does not deserve all those 1/10. Watchable if you dont expect masterpiece.

I've watched this movie and seen the other reviews, first lets me tell you a little about this movie.

Its basically about a SWAT team leader who's never lost a hostage, he gets called in to train a SWAT team for FBI certification in Detroit. When on call with this team things go badly and a hostage dies. Without giving too much away I'll say that there's a bad guy who doesn't take too kindly to the hostage dying, and makes this team leader his primary target, and everything pretty much goes from there.

Now for the review, the movie in itself is not bad, the acting is pretty good, here's the reason why its getting such bad reviews. What I imagine happened was that the director of this movie was told after it was created that.. it was simply too long, and it had to be cut down. Naturally he cut it as short as he could. The problem is that in cutting it he took out the most important elements of the movie, the leading up to the ending part, and the actual ending. Up to where the movie escalates into running out of time, its very good, but as soon as it gets to the point of where the main character is racing the clock, its missing.. well everything.

The bad guys are literally 2 people, they aren't anywhere near as badass or as hardcore as it was portrayed, because it takes about 2 min to neutralize both of them, they make the main bad guy out to be really smart when in fact his "setup" was nothing short of childish, i.e. anyone with half a brain would have thought out a further trap plot then he did, from these things I can only conclude that there is a mass amount of movie missing, if there isn't however then the director knows nothing about how to end a movie and thats where the bad reviews come in.

8/10 because besides for the ending its actually a pretty decent flick.

After losing a hostage, a S.W.A.T. team leader (Macht) is targeted by a government assassin (Patrick). The best anti-terrorism expert the LAPD has is ordered to help train and certify the S.W.A.T. team in Detroit. After going to check out a domestic dispute something goes wrong and someone dies. The boyfriend then sets his sites on officer Cutler and his team. This is a movie that I was not expecting a lot from. It's been awhile since I've seen the original but I remember not liking it that much. I thought this one was better. There is a few dull spots, but it's mostly wall to wall action. Robert Patrick is very good at playing the psycho bad guy, although he was a little over the top, I feel if he was not in it the movie wouldn't have been as good. Don't expect a super great action movie, but if you want a very entertaining and tense movie you won't be disappointed in this one. I give it a B.

Would I watch again? - Probably not