Assault on Precinct 13 Reviews

Extremely effective siege flick with tight cinematography and a memorable score. I liked the lack of backstory, but needed a little more context on the clearly left-wing — inspired at the very least — militia and their motives.

3/18/26: I hate John Carpenter. He got lucky with The Thing and In The Mount of Madness. He makes such dull “hmnheeeugh” boy action movies and is such a mysoginist.

B

Enjoyable movie with a lot of action.
Great start for being John Carpenter first film.

For being the legendary film director John Carpenter’s first film he stuck the landing. Great special effects, cool story, catchy sound track and overall super entertaining.

Tense, stripped-down, and brutal. Carpenter crafts pure, relentless tension with minimal resources. It’s a raw siege thriller that still hits hard despite its age.

Got a smoke?

I love John Carpenter’s hands-on style of filmmaking. His direction and score are both amazing and it’s perfectly paced. Feels like a feature length version of that one sequence in ‘The Terminator’. Great film, cannot understate how good the score is

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Enjoyable, realistic, decades ahead of its time. A great debut for John Carpenter. The movie is fun but the score, actors, & concepts far outweigh the overall product. It’s a snapshot into the 70’s w a message about guns. Hero’s “coolness” vs a violent gang
First time watched

Very entertaining overall good time

one of the best