Assault on Precinct 13 (Special Edition)

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Summary: Assault on Precinct 13
Review: Excellent movie, one of my favorites. Great plot, acting and a very interesting character study. Darwin Joston's portrayal of "Wilson" is brilliant. A convicted killer, on his way to death row, he lets you know there is much more to this man than his crime. It also features one of the strongest female characters in a film. She holds her own with the big boys. Get it ladies, she doesn't twist her ankle. Don't be fooled by the beginning. When this film gets moving it is a full of action.

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Summary: Night of the Living Dead meets Commando
Review: Excellent film about the decay and hopelessness of the urban world. Fearless gangs have overrun the streets and launch an attack on a police station. Several people try to survive the mayhem stuck inside as outside wave after wave of street thugs assault the building. Cops are no longer in control of the situation in this war.

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Summary: A brilliant, excellent and splendid film of Carpenter
Review: This is a second work of John Carpenter who is one of my favorite directors. In my opinion, it is a one of best five in his films. It has a unique material, which are very thrilling. The most shocking scenes are, one of gang killed a little girl without any reason. It is like an elimination of insect or nothing important with no feeling. The most impressive part of this film is a flowing of mood. Especially, group of gang who are looking for people for killing, the music in this scene is very superb. It is well-matched music. In addition, a little girl¡¯s death, which is unimaginable, is a great shock to me. However, when film goes to the last part, the mood, which was splendid, is becoming weak. Nevertheless, it is a very interesting film. John usually takes charge of music part of his film. He shows his magnificent eye about music in this film. This makes film to be excellent. Actually, John does not have a masterpiece but he always makes one or more nice scenes in his film. That is why I expect his next film.

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Summary: Classic Carpenter
Review: Classic John Carpenter. Eerie and provocative, this film is a must-have for Carpenter fans as it shows the original spark of his cinematic genius.

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Summary: The BEST John Carpenter film!
Review: Alot of people are going to disagree with me about it being the BEST Carpenter film, but if you like action mixed with horror than this is a great buy. I saw it a movie rental place and decided since it said it was a Tarintino favorite to buy it. I was a little cautious though because I'd never heard of it and I've saw and heard of a wide variety of movies. But since it was directed by John Carpenter and had Tarintinos seal on it I decided to rent it. Man was I glad I did! It is now one of my favorite movies. I have seen movies where the enemies and stalkers talked and when they talked it seemed to make them human, and to me it shatterd the scary illusion of it. But these gangbangers never talk and it seems to make them scarier if they don't! Nobody knows horror better than Carpenter, he defintly beats Wes Craven! But if you are an action fan (like me) than there still is plenty in it for you. This low-budget masterpiece made such a big impression on me that I now own it. Anyway happy viewing!

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Summary: Damn Good Movie
Review: One of Carpenter's earlier films (before Halloween and after Dark Star), AOP13 is indeed a Western disguised as a gang/police story. But that doesn't stop it from being extremely entertaining; remember, most of the teens at that time wern't into Westerns, so Carpenter made the story timely. It manages to be thrilling without going overboard on the gore, it manages to have funny moments ('one potato, two potato') without being campy (see 'The Warriors'), and shows a black man in the lead hero role without exploiting it. The only thing that might have made it better would have been a bigger budget. Otherwise, still one of his best.

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Summary: Napoleon Wilson; Genesis of Snake Plissken?
Review: Everyone else has already mentioned the paralells between "13" and Rio Bravo and Night of the Living Dead...but...hasn't anyone else noticed the striking similarities between Napoleon "got a smoke?" Wilson and Snake ""got a smoke?" Plissken. Its all there; the cynicism, the minimal dialogue and the antihero we love to love.

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Summary: They don't make 'em like they used to
Review: If this is what could be accomplished in 1976 with no name actors, an unknown director and no budget maybe we should consider putting all of our Alec Baldwins, Michael Bays and Ben Afflecks on the next shuttle to the sun. The atmosphere of this film about a besieged police station could never be duplicated if (especially if you let the suits get involved) Minimalist in every sense of the word. A true classic.

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Summary: Quentin Tarantino's favorite movie!
Review: Prior to "Halloween", John Carpenter scored with this hybrid of "Rio Bravo" and "Night Of The Living Dead". A deserted police station is besieged by a violent youth gang while a police officer, two convicts, and two secretaries struggle to fight them off. Riveting and intense, with an excellent score by Carpenter. Inmate Napoleon Wilson (Darwin Joston) is in particular an intriguing character as is lawman Ethan Bishop (Austin Stoker), who's solid and dependable as the thugs repeatedly attack the police station.

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Summary: One of John Carpenter's best films of the 1970s
Review: Visulise in your mind a police station that is manned by one police officer, a couple of nervous civilians, as well as housing two convicts who are in the process of being transferred out of Precinct 13 before it is finally close down. Add to this a near comatose man who has seen his child killed and reacted by killing the perpetrator, and is now hunted by a group of vicious young gang members who are baying for his blood. Combine this explosive combination and you have a film that leaves you sitting on the edge of your sear from beginning to end. There are no heroes or heroines in this film, only survivors and "Assault on Precinct 13" proceeds to corner your senses and make you totally aware of your own mortality in a word filled with blood and madness. Well worth seeing just for the bodies piling up as wave after wave of gang members allow themselves to be used as cannon fodder in order to gain ground in the besieged police-station. A crackingly good film that that is way more frightening than anything that has come out of the 21st century.