JAM Reviews Tactical Force from Vivendi Entertainment

Tactical Force: DVD: Vivendi Home Entertainment
Review by JAM

Cop killers, gun battles, former WWE Wrestlers... Sounds like a guy movie for the ages.

Steve Austin, Michael Shanks, Lexa Doig, and Michael Jai White star in the SWAT thriller Tactical Force as a SWAT team that is a little rough around the edges. When the call comes out on a hostage situation at a super market, Tate (Austin) and his team take matters into their own hands. After a violent yet successful raid involving gunfights, takedowns, and frozen meat, Tate and his team believe they are in line for a commendation. Instead some intense retraining is required at a remote hanger in order to work on more conventional rescues.

Armed with only blanks for the training, the team suddenly finds they are not alone as rival factions are searching for a briefcase that has been stored within the hanger. Tate and his team must rely on their brains as much as their brawn in order to get out of this deathtrap alive.

JAMS Ink on Tactical Force

I have long been a fan of Steve Austin, from the time of Stone Cold in the WWE to the transition to roles in Chuck and Condemned, but this movie just isn’t my thing. SWAT is usually the best of the best, and this team comes of reckless, crazy, and sloppy which usually leads to failures of missions and dead officers. But worst of all for the movies, it doesn’t come off as a team really. Good cop movies tend to focus on buddies or a small team of officers in which we can see the camaraderie and tactical abilities of the team. This was just a simple shoot-em up, beat-em up which at times had a hard time holding attention. But, Steve Austin was fun at least.

EXTRAS

A look inside the making of the movie and a montage of fight scenes from within the movie are all of the extras included. The making of is kind of good, but the fight scene montage is not really needed since all of the fight scenes were in the movie itself already.

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