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Avg. Critic Score: 45 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
13 Iffy for 13+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Aware of its own cuteness because the dialogue plays by the rules of meta-entertainment. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    One of the best cop thrillers since "Training Day." Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    Offers up the kind of pleasures that only a summer movie can...The cast is good-looking, the soundtrack is loud, the plot is stupid. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Noisy, standard-issue cop actioner. Read full review

  • 50
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    What we have here is a model for the paint-by-numbers, perfectly generic, proudly soulless summer action flick. An original idea would die for lack of oxygen in S.W.A.T. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Though the film's second half has some good action moments, it never fulfills the promise of its earliest scenes. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    By the time you've given up guessing whether S.W.A.T. wants to be a half-serious action pic or just affably jokey, its storytelling has turned so ludicrously melodramatic that it doesn't matter. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    Coming in the wake of the physically astonishing "Bad Boys 2," S.W.A.T. seems square. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    Mostly standard-issue muddle. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    SWAT is better than "Gigli," but so is most outpatient surgery. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 13+ By-the-numbers explosion flick -- no surprises.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie has extensive action peril and violence (not much blood, not too graphic). Characters are hurt and killed. There are some bad words. There are sexual references and situations, but nothing explicit. A character barfs onscreen. Suicide is portrayed as an honorable choice following disgrace. There is a politically incorrect Polish joke.
  • Families can talk about the other alternatives the character who commits suicide might have chosen.
The good stuff
  • rolemodels true2 Positive role models: Very diverse characters exhibit teamwork and camaraderie.
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Extensive action violence and peril, characters killed, suicide. Peril.
  • sex false3 Sex: Some locker-room style sexual references.
  • language false3 Language: Some strong language.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Social drinking, reference to drug dealing.
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