S.W.A.T.: Under Siege

What do you get when you assemble an amateur director and writers? S.W.A.T.: Under Siege

Sure this is a C-list, low production independent film, but it could have been much better, at least in a few areas. It seemed this was more of a failed low budget TV show production.

The story: done thousands of times - this being one of the worst The directing: amateur hour (and a half - run time). I have seen worse, but this film needed strong directing to get over all the other humps, and it wasn't there. The score: terrible. So bad in fact I noticed it every single time, and it did nothing to the scene but annoy me. Was it me, or did they try to get some of the original SWAT TV show jingle in there? The acting: atrocious - every single actor. Partial blame to the director, screenplay and casting director (see below). The editing: was there any? Where there was (fight scenes), it was too soon or too late. And for the first time, I will review two categories I've never reviewed before... casting & action choreography.

Casting: There was not even one actor that fit their character, especially the SWAT team. Since when are there that many women on any one SWAT team? Adrianne Palicki was the worst in her role, the most unconvincing, especially as the sexy (why?) Captain (fail). And Michael Jai White did not belong in this film, I could not stand that fake overly-deep voice he was trying to pull off.

Action Choreography (fight and gun-fight scenes ): the worst I have ever seen. Add to the fact the amateur directing and really bad editing, all the fight scenes were way too long and very fake and unconvincing. Michael Jai White is getting too old and out of shape for these type of films... he's no Jackie Chan, that's for sure. The girl cat-fight was the worst.

I expected more and got much less. Thank God it was only 1:29 min long. Don't waste your time with this unless you're really bored. Rating this film on its merits of a C-grade indie film, it's still only a 3/10.

It is a holiday, but Seattle SWAT member Travis Hall (Sam Jaeger) gets called into work. Commander Ellen Dwyer (Adrianne Palicki) has ordered a raid. DEA agents claim that it's an easy takedown of a drug shipment. Instead, they are confronted by a well-armed group and all they find is a mysterious prisoner (Michael Jai White) being tortured.

This has a solid premise and a couple of good actors. Michael Jai White depends on your personal taste. I find him a little cheesy but a fun take on those 90's action stars. Everything is set up for a good B-movie. Both the directing and production are second rate. Little things do start to bug me. There is plenty of action, but not all of it is staged well. I still like MJW doing his pose-fighting. I don't know if Palicki is doing her own stunts. She looks like she can really kick. This is a B-movie with a good premise. It's too bad that it struggles to pull it off.

Meeting every single cliché from lingerie wearing fighting evil women, over stupidly ridiculous tries to depict 'hackers' - BTW, imitating Microsoft Windows isn't a step in the right direction up to the 'love story' happy end (despite the fact that a dozen of his closest friends just died).

I actually have no words; that's how bad of a movie this is.

The movie lack of numerous characters, may be a low budget movie but it goes straight to the point. The movie has 1 topic and stays on track on that topic. Maybe that's why some people doesn't liked it much. There's no love story and there aren't numerous extras around. Like I said: it stays in one story line. I liked it because it doesn't have all those special effects from movies nowadays were you can tell that's fake or that's computerized. Yes, the fights are kind of slow but is because nothing is over reacted, everything looks like it should, if it was a real situation which I think it was a good change. It could of have better scenes but I think is worth watching. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!

The correct title is: S,W.A.T. - Ostromállapot The hun title featured here is for the movie SWAT-Firefight