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Assault on Precinct 13 is a 2005 action/thriller movie, directed by Jean-François Richet. It is a loose remake of the 1976 movie of the same name by John Carpenter, with an updated plot, and was distributed and produced by Rogue Pictures.

Plot

With only a few hours until the new year, Detroit's oldest police station, Precinct 13, is about to close forever. Only a few officers are on duty for New Year's Eve, including Sergeant Jake Roenick (played by Hawke). Roenick is haunted by a botched undercover operation from eight months before that resulted in the death of his entire team.

Meanwhile, crime lord Marion Bishop (played by Fishburne) is arrested after a confrontation results in the death of an undercover officer. Bishop is put on a prison bus with several other criminals. A raging snowstorm and tretcherous road conditions force the bus driver to make a detour to Precinct 13, where the prisoners are to be held until the storm is over.

New Year's celebrations at the precinct are cut short, however, as the officers find themselves under siege from an elite team of masked gunmen, who are believed to be trying to extract Bishop. All of the precinct's occupants become targets once the gunmen's identities become apparent: they are a gang of crooked officers led by none other than Marcus Duvall (played by Byrne), head of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Squad. The group are in fact trying to kill Bishop to prevent him from testifying against their corrupt activities.

The police officers have to release the criminals and join forces with them to have any chance of staying alive, as more and more corrupt officers surround the precinct and the inhabitants find themselves pitted against street cops, snipers and even a SWAT unit.

Tagline: Unite and fight.

Main cast

Ethan Hawke
— Jake Roenick
Laurence Fishburne
— Marion Bishop
Brian Dennehy
— Jasper O'Shea
John Leguizamo
— Beck
Ja Rule
— Smiley
Gabriel Byrne
— Marcus Duvall
Maria Bello
— Alex Sabian
Drea de Matteo
— Iris Ferry

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