Assault on Precinct 13

Many critics have valid arguments when they lambaste modern Hollywood for the increasingly annoying practice of remaking any successful film of the past. However, in the case of *Assault on Precinct 13*, Jean-François Richet's 2005 version of John Carpenter's 1976 cult classic, these arguments aren't so strong, because the original *Assault* was itself a remake of Howard Hawks' 1959 western *Rio Bravo*. Richet's fil…

It is really hard to pull off a remake of a John Carpenter film but the 2005 version of "Assault On Precinct 13" did a commendable job. Jean-Francois Richet directed this version where a drug sting gone haywire leads Sgt. Jake Roenick (Ethan Hawke) to end up being a desk cop who is dependent upon alcohol and painkillers. At his Detroit police station which is being shut down permanently on New Years Eve, the few emp…