Assault on Precinct 13
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
Sombre, breathless, extreme thriller / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →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.
Our read · Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded thriller · action · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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