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stories are just begging to be told. Heroes and criminals, holed up
together in a stand off, outnumbered and out of options…that
is the stuff of good story-telling! Maybe that is why this movie,
Assault on Precinct 13, is being made now for the third time. |
(2005) Film Review |
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| CREDITS |
| Directed
by Jean-François Richet
Earlier film by John Carpenter
Screenplay by James DeMonaco
Cast
(in credits order)
Ja Rule .... Smiley (as Jeffrey 'Ja Rule' Atkins)
Maria Bello .... Alex Sabian
Peter Bryant .... Lieut. Holloway
Gabriel Byrne .... Marcus Duvall
Fulvio Cecere .... Ray Ray
Kim Coates .... Rosen
Matt Craven .... Capra
Courtney Cunningham .... Cop #1
Drea de Matteo .... Iris Ferry
Brian Dennehy .... Jasper O'Shea
Hugh Dillon .... Tony
Laurence Fishburne .... Marion Bishop
Tig Fong .... Danny Barbero
Darren Frost .... Mover #1
Jasmin Geljo .... Marko
Currie Graham .... Kahane
Jessica Greco .... Coral
Dorian Harewood .... Gil
Ethan Hawke .... Jake Roenick
Robert Hayley .... Sniper James
Aisha Hinds .... Anna
Produced
by
Don Carmody .... executive producer
Pascal Caucheteux .... producer
James DeMonaco .... co-producer
Elizabeth Dreyer .... executive producer
Joseph Kaufman .... executive producer
Sebastien Lemercier .... executive producer
Jeffrey Silver .... producer
Stephane Sperry .... producer
Stephen Sperry .... producer
Original Music by Graeme Revell
Cinematography by Robert Gantz
Film Editing by Bill Pankow
MPAA: Rated R for strong violence
and language throughout, and for some drug content.
Runtime: USA:109 min
For rating reasons, go to FILMRATINGS.COM,
and MPAA.ORG.
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| SYNOPSIS
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 To
survive the night, cops and criminals alike will have to unite and
fight. A classic head-to-head showdown ignites in Assault on Precinct
13, an all-new update of the 1976 action thriller of the same name.
With
only a few hours left in the calendar year, Precinct 13, one of
Detroit’s oldest precinct houses, is closing. Amid heavy snowfall
and unsafe road conditions, only a few lawmen remain on duty for
New Year’s Eve. They are headed by Sergeant Jake Roenick (Ethan
Hawke), a good cop wrestling with bad memories of a fatal undercover
op from the previous spring. Roenick and Precinct 13 have both seen
better days. Early on December 31st, deep in the city, formidable
crime lord Marion Bishop (Laurence Fishburne), is cornered by an
undercover cop. Their ensuing struggle leaves the cop dead -- and
Bishop captured, by the Organized Crime and Racketeering squad that
Marcus Duvall (Gabriel Byrne) runs. Bishop is handcuffed and herded
onto a prison bus with several criminals: junkie Beck (John Leguizamo),
hustler Smiley (Jeffrey “Ja Rule” Atkins), and gang
member Anna (Aisha Hinds). But the battering snowstorm stops the
bus well short of its high-security destination and strands it at
the remote Precinct 13 -- where, as night falls, the prisoners are
temporarily incarcerated. This influx of prisoners irks Roenick,
almost as much as visiting police psychologist Alex Sabian (Maria
Bello) does. But Precinct 13’s provocative secretary Iris
Ferry (Drea de Matteo) and salty veteran cop Jasper “Old School”
O’Shea (Brian Dennehy) won’t let the increasing workload
deter them from celebrating...
...until
two masked gunmen break in and attack the guards from the bus. The
gunmen are just barely beaten back, and everyone inside Precinct
13 realizes that more will come -- to extract crime lord Bishop,
but also armed and ready to shoot anyone and everyone else. The
cops, looking to the reluctant Roenick for leadership, and the cons,
looking to the steely Bishop for an angle, must join forces to live.
Fortifying themselves with minimal weaponry and maximum courage,
they will not go gently into the bad night. As they fight to the
death, the thin lines between good and bad bleed together.
|
 Review
by ELISABETH LEITCH
In
Assault on Precinct 13, its story asks both its characters and audiences
to consider those very ambiguities. It is the story of fighting to
live, fighting to kill, and killing to live. It is a story of death,
yet at the same time it is a story of life, its value, its meaning,
and what it is really worth.
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 Review
by ED TRAVIS
Some stories are just begging to
be told. Heroes and criminals, holed up together in a stand off,
outnumbered and out of options…that is the stuff of good story-telling!
Maybe that is why this movie, Assault on Precinct 13, is being made
now for the third time. John Carpenter has credited Howard Hawkes’
Rio Bravo as the inspiration behind his own version of Assault on
Precinct 13. So, what viewers are treated to in 2005 is essentially
a remake of an homage to a classic! But the story hasn’t lost
much of its fun in the meantime.
Continued
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