Assault on Precinct 13
In order to avenge for the death of many of friends of criminals by a courageous police officer, a dangerous and bloody gang, make their mind to revenge from that cop, so they put their control over a police station and begin a horrible attack on, the thing that makes the policemen and even ordinary people cooperate, in order to face them.
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May 25, 2011
A fast, dark, relentlessly maintained thriller that still ranks among the best of the decade.
April 05, 2008
Assault on Precint 13's powerful exercise in democracy...is nothing short of one for the ages.
June 03, 2013
A ballsy, exciting genre mash-up that still entertains and excites.
May 09, 2005
Mr. Carpenter is an extremely resourceful director whose ability to construct films entirely out of action and movement suggests that he may one day be a director to rank with Don Siegel.
November 12, 2013
In Assault On Precinct 13, hell is an abandoned police station in Los Angeles and the only means of survival is cooperation across racial, class, and legal lines.
January 16, 2017
A vital moment in the career of one of cinema's most important directors and a searingly tense thriller in its own right.
July 06, 2010
Novelty of a gang swearing a blood oath to destroy a precinct station and all inside is sufficiently compelling for the gory-minded to assure acceptance.
May 25, 2011
This early Carpenter movie still holds up as one of the director's best works.
February 09, 2006
One of the most effective exploitation movies of the decade.
November 12, 2013
Carpenter stages the action expertly, always getting maximum impact from the moments when Precinct 13 explodes into violence.
May 25, 2011
Hopelessly violent but exceedingly well made.
