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	Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Assault on Precinct 13 is a 1976 action / thriller movie, directed by John Carpenter.
		Precinct 9, Division 13 is an old police station about to close and running on a skeleton staff comprised only of officer Chaney and the station's two secretaries, Leigh and Julie.
		The most infamous scene in the movie is the one in which a gang member deliberately shoots and kills a little girl standing near an ice-cream truck.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assault_on_Precinct_13_(1976_film) (1259 words)

	John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13
		Assault On Precinct 13 is a masterpeice of taut action and suspense.
		Assault On Precinct 13 was John Carpenter’s second film after Dark Star, and when it was first released in America in 1976 received little acclaim.
		This is the catalyst for the gang’s assault on Precinct 13, but while the distraught father is their target, the lieutenant isn’t about to let them get him without a fight.
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	ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		‘Assault on Precinct 13’ is an action packed remake of John Carpenters 1976 movie of the same name, where the well-used good cop v bad cop scenario is played out with plenty of twists and surprises to keep you guessing just who are the goodies and who are the baddies.
		All the players inside the precinct join forces to protect themselves from the outside invaders even though they shouldn’t, and it’s Fishburne’s character who realises that it’s him they want as he is about to rat on the dirty cops of Detroit.
		Essentially, ‘Assault on Precinct 13’ is well worth a viewing and offers much in suspense and the thrill stakes, even if we do somehow know what the ending will be, long before it arrives.
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	DVDFILE.COM: Assault on Precinct 13 Review
		Along for the precinct's final moments of service are Jasper O'Shea (Brian Dennehy) who has just announced his retirement (betcha never heard that one before) and sexy secretary Iris (Drea de Matteo), insuring that the boys in the audience have something to look at should they tire of gunfire.
		Assault on Precinct 13 is a cut above in all departments.
		The movie may not deserve its cast, but I suspect they were attracted to a fun genre piece they didn't have to be embarrassed about.
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		In the Jewish tradition, 13 signifies the age of maturity, a 13 year old Jew is said to be Bar mitzvah.
		13 is the fifth Mersenne prime exponent, yielding 8191.
		13 goes into 999,999 exactly 76,923 times, so vulgar fractions with 13 in the denominator have six digit repeating sequences in their decimal expansions.
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	Assault on Precinct 13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Though the new movie doesn't quite capture Carpenter's vacant, coldblooded tone, it remains true to itself, which is an accomplishment in a movie world dominated by halfhearted PG-13 efforts.
		Though these movies may provide a convenient place to drop the kids for a few hours, they are superficial and hollow exercises.
		The movie also provides, finally, another good role for Fishburne outside of The Matrix, and the rest of the cast is almost overqualified for the movie, especially when you consider that talents such as Leguizamo and Gabriel Byrne are given a fairly small amount of screen time.
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	Assault on Precinct 13 movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		A revitalization of John Carpenter’s 1976 film version, Assault on Precinct 13 is a ultra violent blood bath that is full of B-movie elements, but still injuries itself in terms of ridiculous nature.
		Assault of Precinct 13 is not necessarily a remake of the Carpenter version; there version.
		The remake of ‘Assault on Precinct 13’ might not have the same impact as the original but this is still an entertaining action flick.
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	Assault on Precinct 13 Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		As a phalanx of gunmen encircles Precinct 13, Roenick realizes that their survival depends on allying with Bishop and the other prisoners: two-bit hustler Smiley (Ja Rule), female gang-banger Anna (Aisha Hinds), and jittery drug addict Beck (John Leguizamo).
		Although Richet's Assault on Precinct 13 departs significantly from Carpenter's original narrative, the new version has a similar, "urban western" sensibility (Carpenter was inspired by Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo).
		As for Hawke, it's not that he's patently unbelievable portraying a cop—he was surprisingly convincing as the LAPD rookie opposite Denzel Washington in Training Day—nor is he outright terrible in Assault on Precinct 13.
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	Assault on Precinct 13 (2005 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Assault on Precinct 13 is a 2005 action/thriller movie, directed by Jean-François Richet.
		It is a loose remake of the 1976 movie of the same name by John Carpenter, with an updated plot, and was distributed and produced by Rogue Pictures.
		The police officers inside the precinct have to release the criminals and join forces with them to have any chance of staying alive, as more and more corrupt officers surround the precinct and the inhabitants find themselves pitted against street cops, snipers and even a large SWAT unit.
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	Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
		Set in the crime-ridden Los Angeles suburb of Anderson, the movie opens with a police ambush that results in the shooting of six members of a juvenile gang.
		Assault on Precinct 13 appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		Assault on Precinct 13 provides a mix of supplements for this “New Special Edition”.
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	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Assault on Precinct 13 (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		'Assault on Precinct 13" is not so much a remake as a riff on an old familiar plot: The fort is surrounded, and the defenders have to fight off the attackers and deal with possible traitors in their midst.
		John Carpenter's 1976 film, made just before his famous "Halloween," added some touches from George Romeo's "Night of the Living Dead" and moved the action from a threatened sheriff's office in the Old West to a threatened police station in the inner city.
		Precinct 13, in this version, is scheduled to close forever at midnight.
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	Assault on Precinct 13
		Assault on Precinct 13 is a remake of John Carpenter's 1976 film of the same name, which itself was a remake of the 1959 film Rio Bravo.
		Duvall wants to make sure that everybody in Precinct 13 is dead so that no proof exists.
		Richet assembles an impressive cast (including John Leguizamo, Ice Age, Spun) but their talent is wasted on what is essentially a popcorn movie.
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	Reviews: Assault on Precinct 13 - Christianity Today Movies
		Carpenter's Assault took a disrespected rookie policeman, some secretaries and cops, and some jailed crooks—including a notorious killer on death row—and he penned them all up in a police precinct on the night before its closure.
		Again, Precinct 13, which has a remarkably similar layout to the original, is almost empty.
		Assault on Precinct 13 is rated R for relentless profanity; for frank sexual references; and for its revelry in gratuitous violence.
	www.christianitytoday.com /movies/reviews/assaultonprecinct13.html (2159 words)

	ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The pace of the film is deliberately slow and "stately", as Carpenter says in the audio commentary, in the fashion of movies made in the '40s and '50s.
		As Leigh, one of the station clerks, Laurie Zimmer is practically a caricature of the tough-as-nails Noir dame of the '40s; her smoky voice and sexy 'Girl Next Door' looks make the character work.
		This is a very dark movie, too, particularly in the last 30 minutes, but scenes are clear even when shot in ambient light using fog filters, as much of the station interiors were.
	www.eccentric-cinema.com /cult_movies/assault_precinct13.htm (1109 words)

	Assault on Precinct 13
		Assault on Precinct 13 is a remake of a 1976 movie of the same name by John Carpenter, who would go on to make other gorefests such as the Halloween series, Escape From L.A. and Vampires.
		The 1976 version is itself a rip-off of 1959âs Rio Bravo, which starred John Wayne as a beleaguered Wild West sheriff fighting off a gang of bad guys trying to bust out their jailed boss.
		As with many recent movies (Oceanâs Eleven, Oceanâs Twelve, Walking Tall, The Punisher, The Chronicles of Riddick), the audience is encouraged to root for a bad guy whoâs fighting badder guys.
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	Modamag.com \| Assault on Precinct 13 - Movie Review (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An end-of-the-year blizzard has stranded a prison-bound van carrying a fierce, formidable crime lord (Laurence Fishburne), a fast-talking junkie (John Leguizamo), a small-time hustler (Jeffrey "Ja Rule" Atkins) and a gang member (Aisha Hinds) at Detroit's aged Precinct 13, which is in the process of closing down.
		The original version was made by John Carpenter back in 1976, before he made "Halloween," as an homage to the 1959 Howard Hawks film "Rio Bravo," starring John Wayne and Dean Martin, whose voice is on the soundtrack.
		On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Assault on Precinct 13" is a serviceable 6.
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	village voice > film > Assault On Precinct 13 by J. Hoberman
		A remake of a stellar '70s recombinant that has already served as the basis for a Tarantino script, Jean-François Richet's Assault on Precinct 13 is a surprisingly credible action flick—even with Ethan Hawke in the role of a neurotic hipster police sergeant.
		The original Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) established its writer-director, John Carpenter, as a shrewd genre artist, two years before Halloween made him a rich and famous one.
		In fact, Assault on Precinct 13 inadvertently suggests The Matrix when, for reasons never explained, it sets its final reckoning in a foggy wood somewhere in the middle of derelict Detroit.
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	Assault On Precinct 13 - Movie Review
		Adding a crooked-cops twist to the outnumbered-and-under-siege plot that John Carpenter lifted from "Rio Bravo" for his "original" 1976 B-movie shoot-'em-up, the new "Assault on Precinct 13" is a reasonably entertaining update of a reliable action-drama formula.
		It's supposed to be the last day this precinct is open -- the phones have been shut down and the joint has been largely cleared of officers, weapons and equipment.
		Now they want him dead, and his overnight lock-up at isolated, snowed-in, nearly empty Precinct 13 is their best chance to see to his demise.
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	Amazon.com: Assault on Precinct 13 (Widescreen Edition): DVD: Ethan Hawke,Laurence Fishburne,Gabriel Byrne,Maria ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Assault on Precinct 13 is now available to download from Amazon Unbox.
		The 2005 "Assault on Precinct 13" has an urban quality, and once again at the heart of the drama is the conflict between two men - one a man of law and order, the other a cold-blooded killer.
		A group of prisoners are redirected to Precinct 13 after their bus encounters worsening road conditions in the snowstorm.
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	13 (number) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The 13th root is the most famous integer root calculation record, because 13 is the first prime number over 10 such as the last digit of a 13th integer power is the same as the last digit of its 13th root.
		Nightmare on the 13th Floor, a 1990 horror movie in which the members of a satanic cult are sacrificing people on the hidden 13th floor of a hotel.
		The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo, an animated TV series where the venerable cartoon dog finds and opens a chest containing 13 of the most powerful ghouls in the world, and is charged with putting them back.
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	CNN.com - Review: An enjoyable 'Assault on Precinct 13' - Jan 20, 2005
		It's New Year's Eve and a blizzard grips Detroit as the dilapidated Precinct 13 is about to be closed for good.
		Roenick reluctantly accepts the new prisoners, but tells the cops from the bus that the inmates are their problem, not his.
		The idea of not just having action for action's sake, but to have the story be plot- and character-driven, is highly welcomed in an age where things seem to go boom just for the hell of it.
	www.cnn.com /2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/20/review.assault/index.html (756 words)

	Amazon.com: Assault on Precinct 13 (Special Edition): DVD: Henry Brandon,Peter Bruni,Tony Burton,Charles ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Even though the movie was made in 1976, the scene where the street gang cruises around and considers who to kill in a random drive-by shooting feels all too contemporary.
		"Assault" is Carpenter's much ballyhooed attempt to update the "Western" genre of film, and specifically "Rio Bravo," by bringing the genre cliches from the plains of the Southwest to the gritty streets of L.A. In many respects, "Assault" is a triumph, but in other key areas, "Assault" falls flat on its face.
		Carpenter uses a surprisingly large bag of director's tricks for a guy making his second movie to create some genuine tension in "Assault," and the entire movie is marked by a darkness and a bleakness that is quite powerful.
	www.amazon.com /Assault-Precinct-Special-Henry-Brandon/dp/B00008974J (2436 words)

	Assault on Precinct 13
		Even though is it a rehash, Assault on Precinct 13 still assaults your senses and keeps you on the edge of your seat.
		[Assault on Precinct 13] is a surprise at a time when the studios usually dump their dreck on the poor, film-
		One of the few good things to be said about Assault on Precinct 13 is that, early in the new season, we get one of the year's worst movies over and done with.
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	2005 Assault on Precinct 13 - Movie reviews, trailers, clips and stills (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Precinct 13’s New Year’s Eve bash is interrupted by a busload of criminals sidelined by the storm.
		When the Precinct is surrounded by uber-outfitted militia men with night-vision, hi-tech gear, and the latest is firepower and explosives, Roenick thinks Bishop’s men are trying to break him out.
		ASSAULT is a high-powered, nasty cop thriller with effectively drawn male characters.
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	Assault on Precinct 13
		On this cold and snowy New Year’s Eve, he’s manning the soon to be shut down Precinct 13 in Detroit with his crotchety old friend Jasper (Brian Dennehy) and the randy secretary Iris (Drea de Matteo), who has a soft spot for bad boys and risqué public assignations.
		The film is a remake of the 1976 B-movie classic by John Carpenter, and one can’t help but think that in updating the story screenwriter James DeMonaco has jammed in as many action movie clichés as possible.
		His “Assault on Precinct 13” may be far from memorable, but it is a welcome respite from would-be Oscar contenders for those seeking popcorn and eye-candy.
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	MovieFreak.com - "Assault on Precinct 13" Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On a wintry New Year’s Eve, the cops of Detroit’s Precinct 13 sit toasting the night away watching the snow fall.
		The action is precise and resourcefully staged, the acting is top-notch and the whole thing is filmed in a series of misty blues, piercing whites and striking contrasts they really get under the skin.
		Even if it does go off the rails a bit during the final ten minutes (and while Carpenter’s original themes are sorely missed), it’s still enjoyable, and for a January sure to be crowded with rejects and missed opportunities that’s the best recommendation of all.
	www.moviefreak.com /reviews/a/assaultonprecinct13.htm (693 words)

	Movie Review for Assault on Precinct 13
		Scheduled for shut-down the next day, Precinct 13 is an outdated police station in the middle of Detroit’s dreary, deserted industrial district.
		Precinct 13 is a dreary place in the most dreary part of a dirty, dreary city.
		As a remake, Assault on Precinct 13 could have tried to soft-pedal the story’s hard edge, in an attempt to reach a wider audience than John Carpenter’s original.
	www.cinemablend.com /review.php?id=833 (927 words)

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