Assault on Precinct 13

Name: Assault on Precinct 13
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: January 19, 2005
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne

2005

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Rogue Pictures | Release Date: January 19, 2005 | R

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne

Summary: To survive the night, cops and criminals alike will have to unite and fight. A classic head-to-head showdown ignites in this all-new update of the 1976 action thriller of the same name. (Rogue Pictures)

Director: Jean-François Richet

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 109 min

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Kevin Thomas

Smart, satisfying action entertainment that is also a perceptive work of considerable artistry. Read full review

Connie Ogle

Smart, entertaining update. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Matches a dingy urban setting with a compelling situation and throws in an ensemble of interesting characters who become even more interesting under stress. This emphasis on character -- in a sense, the movie's underlying humanity -- is what especially links it to the 1970s. Read full review

Jami Bernard

In a preamble that sets up Hawke's character, the jittery hand-held camera and grainy palette establish the look and feel of a '70s movie, thus paying homage to the Carpenter version, which, frankly, had more suspense. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

Retains every hooky, marketable, and superficially attractive element from its source material while losing everything that made it special. Read full review

Ella Taylor

Excitably puppyish homage. Read full review

Marc Savlov

It's never wise to try to one-up a classic. Read full review

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[Anonymous]

Sep 5, 2005

Flawed, but decently entertaining, and sometimes it feels like an old-fashioned thriller. What's with the forest scene at the end, though?

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GrahamM.

Dec 17, 2005

What is good and redeeming about this film is the atmosphere and mood. Feels almost like it could be a horror film. Some of this film has the atmosphere of and could remind some of the game Resident Evil 2.

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Meth-dude

Oct 26, 2014

The movie is not original but he's still watchable.Ethan Hawke is not at his best but he delivers the best performance with Fishburne.The strong element of the movie is the atmosphere but,unfortunately, the director of the movie can't make us feel the atmosphere of the movie.The movie isThe movie is not original but he's still watchable.Ethan Hawke is not at his best but he delivers the best performance with Fishburne.The strong element of the movie is the atmosphere but,unfortunately, the director of the movie can't make us feel the atmosphere of the movie.The movie is predictable but there is a twist who is better than the entire movie.… Expand

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HellHoleHorror

Nov 5, 2022

It looked quite nice. The snow looked good. There was nothing that exciting and nothing wrong with the looks. The sound was fine. It was unnoticeable and that is fine. The story was quite good and suitably different to the original but I thought that the execution was a little dull. ThereIt looked quite nice. The snow looked good. There was nothing that exciting and nothing wrong with the looks. The sound was fine. It was unnoticeable and that is fine. The story was quite good and suitably different to the original but I thought that the execution was a little dull. There was just no suspense. It wasn't scary thinking that there was this unstoppable army trying to kill you like in the first one. It was just lacking anything exciting. It lacked the claustrophobia and suspense of the original. It was just another thriller.… Expand

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juliankennedy23

Jun 21, 2014

Assault on Precinct 13: 3/10: Let us forget for a moment that Assault on Precinct 13 is a remake of a classic action movie. Taken completely on its own merits Assault is a debacle.

Lets start with the Rio Bravo style scenario. About a dozen people are trapped in a decaying police stationAssault on Precinct 13: 3/10: Let us forget for a moment that Assault on Precinct 13 is a remake of a classic action movie. Taken completely on its own merits Assault is a debacle.

Lets start with the Rio Bravo style scenario. About a dozen people are trapped in a decaying police station in Detroit (If the Detroit location is giving you Robocop warm and fuzzies stop right now. It could have easily said Topeka in the opening credits and nothing would have changed. In fact the last bit in the forest would have made more sense.) Surrounding them are our bad guys; corrupt cops.

Now I know what your thinking. Corrupt cops? Were the Nazis and drug cartels busy that weekend? Of course these are no ordinary cops. These guys are right of the cover of the latest Tom Clancy video game. Yup we have body armor; helicopters; laser sights; night vision goggles the works. So we have thirty S.W.A.T. members/Special Forces armed to the teeth verses 4 cops (drunk mind you it's new years eve), 2 girls in party dresses and half a dozen criminals.

So how do our heroes defend themselves? Truth is they can't. They all should be dead within ten minutes tops. (Not to mention the characters inside have an annoying habit of walking past the windows.) Now an illogical scenario is no reason to completely pan a movie esp. a B style action film. However with the exception of Laurence Fishburne and Ethan Hawke all the other characters seemed to be comic relief. (At least I hope they were)

While Ja-Rules and Leguizamo's characters are bad enough. It's Aisha Hind's minstrel show that takes the cake. Rarely has a more stereotypical African American character appeared on the modern screen. Her performance resembles a frat boy in blackface and drag acting ghetto.

In the original Assault a gang member takes over an Ice-Cream truck and drives around the neighborhood shooting little girls in the head. I have had an irrational fear of ice-cream trucks ever since. After this Assault I have a perfectly rational fear of remakes.… Expand

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alexh.

Aug 27, 2005

Painfully childish logic employed in the storyline.

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Bill

May 22, 2006

terrible film, completely unbelievable storyline, one dimensional characters, unimpressive action sequences its got the lot. Go see 16 blocks instead.

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