Assault on Precinct 13

United States, France

2005

109 Min

Color

2.40:1

English, Serbian

Currently 2.3/5 Stars.
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EXEC Don Carmody, Joseph Kaufman, Sébastien Lemercier

PROD Pascal Caucheteux, Jeffrey Silver, Stephane Sperry

SCR James DeMonaco, John Carpenter

CAST Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Byrne, Maria Bello, Drea de Matteo, John Leguizamo, Brian Dennehy, Ja Rule, Currie Graham, Aisha Hinds, Matt Craven, Fulvio Cecere, Peter Bryant, Kim Coates, Hugh Dillon, Tig Fong, Jasmin Geljo, Jessica Greco, Dorian Harewood, Philip Marshall, Arnold Pinnock, Edward A. Queffelec, Robert Hayley, Sasha Roiz, Titus Welliver

Jean-François Richet

Jean-Francois Richet is a French screenwriter, director, and producer, born on July 2, 1966 in Paris. He grew up in Meaux, a suburb east of Paris.

Selected filmography

État des lieux (1995) – named at the César Awards 1996 in the Best Debut category.
Ma 6-T va crack-er (1997) – a film which caricatures(?) gang warfare.
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) – an action/thriller starring Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, John Leguizamo, Maria Bello, Ja Rule, and Drea de Matteo. It is a loose remake of John Carpenter’s 1976 film of the same name, with an updated plot.
Mesrine (2008) – featuring Vincent Cassel as Jacques Mesrine, co-starring Gérard Depardieu, Mathieu Amalric and Cécile de France. The movie (an adaptation of L’Instinct de mort) is being released in two parts, the first L’instinct de mort (English title: Killer Instinct) was released in France on October 22, 2008 and the second part L’Ennemi public n°1 (English title: Public Enemy No. 1) was released in French… read more

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Singha Song

11Feb12

If it wasn't for the Fishy, I would of turned off half an hour in, he kept this boat a float.

serotoninronin

2Dec11

Potent stuff that is, unfortunately, also woefully misunderstood.

Daniel S.

24Feb11

Laurence Fishburne and Maria Bello save this film from total oblivion. I still don't understand how, at the end of the film, the characters manage to leave an industrial urban zone and enter a deep forest in 5 seconds. A DVD zone "Wake up, directors of the world. Hollywood is not able to deliver original screenplays and movies anymore."