10 Incredible Endings To Otherwise Terrible Sci-Fi Movies
6. Assault On Precinct 13 (2005)
We really wish the remake of John Carpenter’s sparse, brutal seventies thriller Assault on Precinct 13 were better.
The futuristic action thrills of the original film see the Halloween filmmaker overcome obvious budgetary limitations to deliver an intense sci-fi spin on Rio Bravo’s spare set up, but the 2005 film takes a superb twist—the corrupt cops are the villains, not random criminals—and manages to waste it on an uber-bleak, pedestrian thriller.
However, despite the disappointing preceding hour or so of (in-)action, the final snow flecked confrontation between Ethan Hawke’s conflicted antihero and Lawrence Fishbourne’s complex antagonist makes this sci-fi thriller a more effective effort than expected.