Review of Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) by Olivierpiel — 26 Mar 2019

When I first saw this film as a teenager, I barely remembered it and thought it inferior compared with actually lesser Carpenter's works (especially Escape from New York). Only now can I appreciate the near flawless pacing and editing, the clever and nearly transcendental photography (always pitting characters against each other to echo the class/race/gender/even political struggles of America).

Some of the fighting scenes'choreography show their age of course, but it is overall a great piece of "Americana" art that our younger Walking Dead/Games of Thrones generation should recognize as far superior to their current favorites, pale copies as it where, when it comes to the exploration of the roots of nihilism in our modern Western societies .