Assault on Precinct 13 (1976): ***1/2
This is John Carpenter's second flick, recently
remade.Carpenter also directed
Halloween, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, and
lots more low budget fun crappy films. Assault on Precinct 13 is one of the better
ones. A police station on its last evening before being decommissioned is
terrorized by waves of relentless gang members. While there's nothing
supernatural, the movie feels a lot more like a zombie movie than a gang movie
-- the gangbangers just keep coming and coming and coming, no matter how many
get shot.I think it's interesting that
the new one , instead of gang members, has dirty
cops assaulting the station. That change has to say something about our current
political climate, huh?I haven't seen
the new one yet.
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