Word: roenick
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Little did Cavanagh know when he heard the good news on Wednesday afternoon that he would be teaming up with Thornton and 500-goalscorer Jeremy Roenick for a score—and that, too, on his very first shift...
Months before the assault, Jake Roenick (Ethan Hawke) led a botched sting operation that resulted in the deaths of some of his team. Now he is steeped in fear and failure; he has the fretful eyes of a dog awaiting its master's familiar kick. So he can't be surprised when two things go wrong in sleepy Precinct 13. First, a batch of criminals arrives, including assassin Marion Bishop (Laurence Fishburne). Then all hell breaks loose outside and tries to break in, presumably to spirit Bishop out of custody...
...differences between the two Assaults--the new one's pretty good, the old one near great--are of tone, style and perspective. Richet's m??tier is juiced, as edgy as Roenick's psyche; it favors obsessive-compulsive tracking shots and some Dolby rumblings that make the theater shudder like a wooden roller coaster. He gooses the actors to high agitation, except Fishburne, who remains Clyde Cool throughout. Indeed, it seems as if Fishburne is the only member of the company to have learned from the original...