Assault on Precinct 13
When the LAPD kills several members of the South Central gang Street Thunder, the isolated inhabitants of an abandoned police station are under attack by the overwhelming numbers of the seemingly unstoppable street gang.
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May 25, 2011
This early Carpenter movie still holds up as one of the director's best works.
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.
November 12, 2013
Carpenter stages the action expertly, always getting maximum impact from the moments when Precinct 13 explodes into violence.
May 25, 2011
A fast, dark, relentlessly maintained thriller that still ranks among the best of the decade.
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.
May 25, 2011
Hopelessly violent but exceedingly well made.
February 09, 2006
One of the most effective exploitation movies of the decade.
June 03, 2013
A ballsy, exciting genre mash-up that still entertains and excites.
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.
April 05, 2008
Assault on Precint 13's powerful exercise in democracy...is nothing short of one for the ages.
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.
