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| Director
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Jean-François
Richet |
| Starring
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Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne
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| The plot of
Assault on Precinct 13 |
On
New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's
about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick
(Hawke) must cobble together a force made up cops
and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking
to looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop (Fishburne).
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| Assault on
Precinct 13 Movie Review |
Reviewed by
Frank H. Woodward :
The remake of ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13, while not doing
any justice to John Carpenter's original, does make
for some guilty pleasures. Pleasures that are too good
to last throughout the movie.Like the 1976 film, this
remake is essentially a western. Obviously there have
been some changes. This PRECINCT 13 is more high-tech
than Carpenter's gritty cult hit. Also missing are the
social horror overtones. Though the enemy is mostly
still faceless, there are no hints of ethnic street
punks rising up against law and order. All this has
been replaced with action elements commonly found in
your DIE HARD variety thriller.
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Review By JIM
SLOTEK :
Moralists could have a field day with what's
happened to John Carpenter's Assault On Precinct 13.
The original, an early work of the horror director,
was classic '70s vigilante-porn stolen in spirit from
the John Wayne film Rio Bravo. To wit: A handful of
good guys (cops) hold out against an army of street
gang members, popping relentlessly out of the woodwork
by the hundreds like zombies in a Romero film. And in
America in 2005? Apparently that street-crime thing
has been fixed and the number one threat to public safety
in a city like Detroit is rogue cops. If you really
want to get worked up about it, let it be known that
the director is French. More..
Reviewed by Dustin's :
A loose retelling of the 1976 cult film by John Carpenter
(made two years before he hit it big with the groundbreaking
"Halloween"), "Assault on Precinct 13"
has updated the story and setting for modern audiences
but has wisely retained its gritty, take-no-prisoners,
B-movie attitude. Rated R for a reason and notably more
splatterific than the majority of horror films tend
to be in these compromising, toned-down PG-13 times,
"Assault on Precinct 13" has the body count
of a slasher flick and the nail-biting, full-throttle
know-how of a "Die Hard" or "Speed."
Directed with unobtrusive style and tightness by Jean-Francois
Richet, it is a down-and-dirty thriller that understands
it isn't high art, and doesn't try to be anything other
than a pleasingly taut effort that action buffs will
go wild over.
more..
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