MOVIE · 2005

Assault on Precinct 13

ActionAdventureCrimeDramaThriller109 min

On New Year’s Eve, a half-shuttered police station becomes a fortress when a routine prisoner transfer brings a target through its doors. Ethan Hawke is officer Jake Roenick, already stretched thin at Precinct 13, while Laurence Fishburne’s Marion Bishop is the mobster everyone seems to want dead. When gunmen cut the power and close in during a snowstorm, the few cops left inside are forced into an uneasy alliance with the inmates they’re holding. With Maria Bello and John Leguizamo among the trapped group, the film turns the station into a pressure cooker of crossfire, suspicion, and shifting loyalties.