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OFCS Rating: 77% Fresh |
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8/10 | "a film with as much tension as the original, but far more character-based drama and psychological depth" |
| Movie Gazette |
| Anton Bitel |
| "I'm still trying to recover from this action film's relentless suspense." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Betty Jo Tucker |
B+ | "A gritty, violent journey that's about twice as good as you'd expect it to be." |
| FromTheBalcony |
| Bill Clark |
A- | "It’s a joy to see a gritty, take-few-prisoners film like Assault, and a relief to see it come together so magnificently." |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
B- | "delivers the action movie goods [thanks to] adroit pacing...[and] a cast of extremely capable actors." |
| AboutFilm.com |
| Carlo Cavagna |
| "The clash of seething, seeming opposites who really do see eye to eye, as embodied by Hawke and Fishburne, is pretty near irresistible.
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| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
| "The clash of seething, seeming opposites who really do see eye to eye, as embodied by Hawke and Fishburne, is pretty near irresistible.
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| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
A- | "It’s a blast… literally." |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
2.5/4 | "Assault on Precinct 13 is sporadically effective but far too incoherent to warrant a full-blown recommendation." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
6/10 | "Richet's film provides more than enough entertainment in its 109 minutes" |
| Draxblog Movie Reviews |
| Dragan Antulov |
2.5/4 | "Graphically violent and merciless...refreshingly unpretentious in its goal to entertain and put a jolt in any non-squeamish viewer sick to death of cookie-cutter genre movies." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
F | "The nuances which made Carpenter's movie work are missing this time around, leaving little more than just another excuse to have people shoot at one another for two hours." |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Edward Havens |
C+ | "It provides some escapist entertainment, insofar as seeing people try to kill each other constitutes 'escapism.' (What would you be escaping from? Pleasantness?)" |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
B- | "For what it is, it works well enough -- as a thriller and suspense machine, at least, it is serviceable, and technically proficient." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
2.5/4 | "...[a] disjointed but jolting jailhouse shoot-‘em-up showcase...a frenetic and formulaic action-drama guaranteed to get the adrenaline pumping." |
| Movie Eye |
| Frank Ochieng |
B | "Astonishingly enough, the old chestnut is still a grabber...earning its suspense the old-fashioned way, by pacing and atmosphere rather than cheap thrills." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
1/5 | "A ho-hum police action drama that did not merit a remake." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
3/4 | "It's not great art, but, for B-movie fans and those looking for a mid-winter jolt of energy, it's good fun." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3/5 | "In its middle section, Assault on Precinct 13 manages to build up an impressive head of steam." |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
4/5 | "Trashy '70s Carpenter flick gets a startlingly good remake that's smart, swift and full of bruising good times for B-movie action fans." |
| Netflix |
| James Rocchi |
| "The film dabbles in themes of honor, trust, and self-sacrifice, but really it’s just a machine built for suspense and excitement, and on those terms it’s successful." |
| Pajiba |
| Jeremy C. Fox |
7/10 | "A fun little action movie." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
| "Occasionally implausible, Assault on Precinct 13 respects its B-Movie origins while upping the ante to satisfy a new generation of action fans. They won’t be disappointed." |
| Light Views |
| John Larsen |
3 | "..a cocksure, stylized, gutty thrill-ride very much in the tradition of star Ethan Hawke and producer Jeffrey Silver’s prior collaboration, Training Day.." |
| Bangitout.com |
| Jordan Hiller |
3.5/5 | "full review in Greek" |
| Movies for the Masses |
| Joseph Proimakis |
| "This movie is worthy of the original." |
| 3BlackChicks Review |
| Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel |
B | "...a solid genre picture of gritty mayhem and spirited characterizations" |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
3/5 | "The result is still formulaic, but it's never dull." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
3/4 | "There's a sense that almost anything could happen." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
B- | "Rudely funny and gleefully violent, the film is a wound-up genre exercise that doesn’t dip even a toe into reality but is a good time if you can get past that." |
| Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema |
| Mark Pfeiffer |
| "[A] tenth-generation Xerox of Die Hard... blurry, fuzzy, just faintly hinting at far superior movies it’s trying to ape..." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
2/5 | "It is not effective as a suspense film. Aside from one or two sequences, it doesn't work at all." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
B | "The fluidity of relationships as loyalties shift gives this story extra energy and sizzle that takes it beyond the usual shoot-out and explosion-movie standard." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
2/5 | "the primary attack being perpetrated by this 2004 version of Assault on Precinct 13 is on Carpenter’s classic." |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Nick Schager |
4/5 | "Apresenta mais acertos do que erros." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
3.5/5 | "A nifty little action movie, and well worth a look." |
| Film Threat |
| Pete Vonder Haar |
3.5/5 | "A fairly edgy thriller that's not too demanding, but thoroughly entertaining." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
B | "This update, muscular and surprising, captures Carpenter's spirit, if not his pared-down, Hawksian formalism." |
| TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
| Rick Curnutte |
3/5 | "It's neither graceful nor disgraceful; it just functions and then is over." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
B | "A modest film to be sure, but that modesty still packs a satisfying punch." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
B- | "[Assault on Precinct 13] is a surprise at a time when the studios usually dump their dreck on the poor, film-starved winter movie-goer." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
2.5/5 | "Without a few characters worth rooting FOR or AGAINST, what we're left with is soft-core porn with guns instead of genitalia." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Scott Weinberg |
| "A great deal of thought may have gone into the making of Assault on Precinct 13, but its tone and its rhythms are consistently out of whack." |
| Salon.com |
| Stephanie Zacharek |
6/10 | "As remakes go, this action thriller is a notch above the rest." |
| Modamag.com |
| Susan Granger |
2.5/4 | "There's a dullness to the shooting and editing of the action scenes." |
| Reel.com |
| Timothy Knight |
3/4 | "Grounded in viscera and spit, it delivers the goods with an uncompromising nastiness." |
| Film Freak Central |
| Walter Chaw |
| "Click here to see review" |
| Wolf Entertainment Guide |
| William Wolf |
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OFCS Rating: 77% Fresh |
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