Fresh
Fishburne even manages to make crass violence witty.
Ken Tucker, New York Magazine/Vulture
Assault on Precinct 13
Unite and fight.
2005 · 1h 49m · R
Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Jean-François Richet
Overview
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
Director and cast
- Jean-François Richet Director
- Ethan Hawke as Sergeant Jake Roenick
- Laurence Fishburne as Marion Bishop
- Gabriel Byrne as Captain Marcus Duvall
- Maria Bello as Dr Alex Sabian
- Drea De Matteo as Iris Ferry
- John Leguizamo as Beck
- Brian Dennehy as Sargeant Jasper O'Shea
- Ja Rule as Smiley
- Currie Graham as Mike Kahane
- Aisha Hinds as Anna
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
60%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It's good for a silly laugh, this stuff. And maybe this movie will draw renewed attention to Carpenter's eminently better movie.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Fresh
This meat-and-potatoes dish of moviemaking is sufficiently tasty to satisfy auds hungry for old-fashioned rock-the-house action.
Joe Leydon, Variety
Rotten
A great deal of thought may have gone into the making of Assault on Precinct 13, but its tone and its rhythms are consistently out of whack.
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Rotten
An assault to your intelligence, and an assault on your ears and eyes.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
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