Assault on our intelligence
Jean-Francois Richet's remake of John Carpenter's 1976 film Assault on Precinct 13 could almost be billed as a parody of the typical action flick. The film takes place in a nearly abandoned police precinct during a heavy snowstorm. Ethan Hawke plays a burnt-out cop in charge of guarding a recently apprehended crime leader (Laurence Fishburne). Hawke, the handful of cops and civilians inside the precinct are forced to hold down the fort when an impossibly large group of corrupt cops try to bust out Fishburne.