Like Zack Snyder's 2004 remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978), Jean-Francois Richet's retake on John Carpenter's 1976 ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (itself an unabashed reworking of the classic western RIO BRAVO) is a slicked up, perfectly watchable update of a movie that was just about perfect on its own bleakly seedy terms. A prologue whose jittery visual style owes far too much to the opening of Joe Carnahan's NARC (2002) establishes that Detroit cop Jake Roenick (Ethan Hawke) became a high-strung booze hound with a nasty prescription drug habit after an undercover drug bust went horribly wrong. Now it's New Year's Eve, the mother of all blizzards is sweeping through Detroit...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
109 mins