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Assault on Precinct 13

2005FranceLanguage: EnglishDirected by Jean-François Richet★ 6.2
Available in English: subtitled

On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.

Themes and style

Tone
tensebrutalcold and detached
Pacing
escalatingslow build to explosionrelentless
Story
siegesurvivalescape
Emotion
loyalty under pressureredemptionguiltsacrifice
Themes
corrupt institutionsclass and money
Feel
exhaustingcatharticrewatchablecrowd pleaser
Violence
graphic

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