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Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)

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Release Date: January 19, 2005
On DVD: May 10, 2005
Genre: Crime, Action
Running Time: 109 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for strong violence and language throughout, and for some drug content.
Director: Jean-François Richet
Writer: John Carpenter, James DeMonaco
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, John Leguizamo, Maria Bello, Ja Rule, Drea de Matteo, Matt Craven, Aisha Hinds, Brian Dennehy, Gabriel Byrne

To survive the night, cops and criminals alike will have to unite and fight. A classic head-to-head showdown ignites in an all-new update of the 1976 action thriller of the same name. With only a few hours left in the calendar year, Precinct 13, one of Detroit's oldest precinct houses, is closing. Amid heavy snowfall and unsafe road conditions, only a few lawmen remain on duty for New Year's Eve. They are headed by Sergeant Read more

Movie Review

Grade: B "Assault on Precinct 13" stumbled in theaters and vanished from the public eye about as quickly as Ethan Hawke is respected as a serious actor (Editor's note: Does that analogy make sense?). The film barely managed to make back its estimated budget, but amazingly this flop of a film is actually quite an impressive action movie. Read the full movie review

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ooohhhh, by big hairy tuk

May 20, 2005

I really want to give Fishburn a meat popsicle, so that he can get to know me well

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