Like Night of the Living Dead', it offers a protagonist who is black, a morality that is grey, and social commentary in the guise of horror.
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01/24/05
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:24
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Director John Carpenter's second film is a brutal, realistic story about the siege of a small police precinct by a violent and well-armed gang. The gang is seeking the man who killed some of their... [More]
Starring: Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, Martin West
Director: John Carpenter
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Reviews for Assault on Precinct 13
...there’s no mistaking the modern racial and sexual politics encoded in the distinctly western elements of Carpenter’s lean, mean, genre-defying masterpiece.
08/07/03
Assault on Precint 13's powerful exercise in democracy...is nothing short of one for the ages.
04/05/08
Suspenseful, stylish and full of attitude!
09/10/02
While the Carpenter 1976 cult classic feasted off the blaxploitation and horror thriller mania of the movie moment back then, French director Richet gets more into character depth, and greater moral ambiguity fueling the social contradictions now.
03/24/07
A good late-night movie, tense enough to keep you looking over your shoulder but corny enough to provide fodder for endless jokes.
02/28/02
As formally compact and rigorously efficient as anything the genre filmmaker ever made.
06/22/05
It's a cult film that's not as great as some would lead you to believe, but it has its amusing and ruthless moments of shock and schlock.
11/30/01
Assault on Precinct 13 is derived from the ’70s popular crime genre, largely composed of borrowed pieces, each polished and radiant.
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