S.w.a.t. Under Siege (2017)
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Adrianne Palicki Michael Jai White Ty Olsson Pascale Hutton Sam Jaeger Monique Ganderton Kyra Zagorsky Olivia Cheng Zahf Paroo Aren Buchholz Francisco Cano Lisa Chandler Garvin Cross Mike Dopud Chris Gauthier Dakota Guppy Marci T. House Matthew Marsden Omari Newton
This third entry in the S.W.A.T. franchise is a low-rent DTV version of Assault Of Precinct 13. It ain't very good, but it's definitely more action-packed and entertaining than the annoying and terrible S.W.A.T: Firefight. The lead here is bland and vanilla as fuck but I still prefer him to fucking Gabriel Macht. The SWAT Team antics/chat is also less cringe and irritating than it was in the previous film. It's always good to see Michael Jai White pop-up in stuff like this, he brings some well-needed personality and fighting skills to the table. S.W.A.T.: Under Siege contains terrible CGI blood, dull characters and some shitty performances, but it isn't the worst thing I've ever seen when it comes to DTV junk. Two major highlights: Larry from Blue Mountain State gets LIT THE FUCK UP by a mini-gun & a prisoner smashes his head open nice and bloody when cuffed to an interrogation table.
Is vulgar auteurism still a thing? A lo-fi mash-up of Assault on Precinct 13 and Mile 22 with saving grace Michael Jai White as a mysterious prisoner being protected by a SWAT team (who don't look very official thanks to the costume budget) who are all, naturally, under siege in some building in Seattle by a bunch of extremists. The acting is awful, it's casually jingoistic and the action is sort of hard to watch but it works? It's at least better that the theatrically released original, which says a lot considering this one is from the director of Soccer Dog: The Movie.
Finally Michael Jai White in a quite solid DTV action flick.
What surprised me is that story is quite engaging and interesting.
Fights are good, but not as you might expect.
Adrianne Palicki is just damn fine to look at...
Only problems are cheap looking photography of the film and terrible muzzleflashes.
But all in all, this is a good one !!!
Here's a DTV junk sequel that hits the target! It's basically a riff on Assault on Precinct 13, but in the daytime, because that's way cheaper to shoot. It's the kind of no-brains, all-brawn exercise in which the Sassy Black Woman exclaims, "Not on my shift, motherfucker!" as she unloads a couple of rounds into an Interchangeable Henchman.
A bland, television quality action film, "S.W.A.T.: Under Siege" provides disposable thrills delivered in a disposable story. That story deals with law enforcement, DEA stings, and double-agents, offering routine plot beats and cardboard characters. The production is just as flat but picks up energy every time Michael Jai White navigates through a set-piece. There is little here to make the film a worthy use of its audience's time.
The CGI squibs are shoddy but that's really the only bad thing about this in-name-only DTV sequel. It's low rent Assault on Precinct 13 with some cool actors like Michael Jai White, Adrianne Palicki and, in a rare acting role, Monique Ganderton.
During a raid a group of S.W.A.T. officers find a man held captive and take him into custody. Soon after, a group of mercenaries attack their compound and the prisoner is their only hope for survival.
Jai White rocks the shit in this one, has a few decent looking fight scenes and at one point weilds a minigun - which always gets points from me. Ganderton and Palicki get into a solid fight scene too. There are loads of shootouts and some explosions. The acting ain't bad either. This is pretty good stuff.
Hours after the nearly five-day siege at a militant den in Sylhet ended on Tuesday evening, police said they tracked down three more terror hideouts -- two in Sylhet's neighbouring district Moulvibazar and one in Comilla.
Some 10 to 12 suspected militants are believed to be holed up in the two Moulvibazar houses, some 20km apart. Both the houses are owned by Saifur Rahman Shakil, a Bangladeshi man living in England for 30 years, police and local sources said.
When police were preparing to launch an operation on the Nasirpur den in the afternoon, Comilla police said they discovered a militant hideout in Comilla municipality. At least two militants are said to be hiding there with huge explosives.
Police may launch an operation on the Borohat den today. Any offensive on the hideout in Comilla is not expected before tomorrow, as the city goes to municipal polls today, according to police sources.
A team of Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) started the operation around 6:30pm. During the 70-minute raid, more than 300 shots were fired but police could not confirm if any of the suspected militants were neutralised, report our correspondents, who were about 300 metres from the scene.
Police did not allow reporters or locals to go near any of the hideouts while the district administration clamped Section 144 around 2km radius of the two dens in Moulvibazar. Section 144 prohibits gathering of more than five people.
Two to three militants may be hiding in the Borohat den while eight to nine in Nasirpur, said Mohibul Islam, deputy commissioner of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit (CTTC) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
Police said one Belal Ahmed rented the ground floor of the Borohat house in January, identifying himself as an employee of a private company. Later, he told the caretaker, Azir Mia, that some of his relatives wanted to stay in the house. The caretaker told him that the relatives could rent the Nasirpur house, which they did.
Jewel then knocked on the door of Mahfuz's flat in the early morning and someone opened it. When he asked whether they were militants, the person shut the door and a few minutes later hurled a bomb, police said.
Police first tried to close in on the Borohat den around 6:30am, but backed away as the militants opened fire. Since then there were occasional exchange of gunshots throughout the day, according to police.
Amid the raid in Moulvibazar, police in Comilla cordoned off an under-construction three-storey building around 2:00pm following information from the Police Headquarters that some suspected militants were hiding there with explosives.
Delwar, the house owner, said two youths, aged about 22, rented a flat on the ground floor early this month identifying themselves as clothes traders. They, however, did not provide copies of their identity cards.
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