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Latest News 26 / 02 / 2023 20 / 11 / 2022 13 / 11 / 2022 30 / 10 / 2022 23 / 10 / 2022 09 / 10 / 2022 02 / 10 / 2022 I've slightly changed the weightings of Alfa/Alpine/Haas to reflect their current performance. 11 / 09 / 2022 04 / 09 / 2022 28 / 08 / 2022 31 / 07 / 2022 24 / 07 / 2022 10 / 07 / 2022 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 03 / 07 / 2022 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 20 / 06 / 2022 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 12 / 06 / 2022 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. I've slightly increased the weightings of the Mercedes pair as their woes seem to be continuing. 29 / 05 / 2022 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 22 / 05 / 2022 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 10 / 05 / 2022 24 / 04 / 2022 I've slightly reduced the weightings of Norris / McLaren because they're doing particularly well at the moment. 10 / 04 / 2022 27 / 03 / 2022 I decided not to change the weightings again for now. Let's see how the next couple of races go. 20 / 03 / 2022 I have made some quick changes to the weightings - Haas seem much stronger than I expected and McLaren/Aston much weaker. I might tweak them again after Saudi. 13 / 03 / 2022 12 / 12 / 2021 05 / 12 / 2021 21 / 11 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 14 / 11 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 07 / 11 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 24 / 10 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 26 / 09 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 26 / 09 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 12 / 09 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 05 / 09 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 29 / 08 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 01 / 08 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 18 / 07 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 15 / 07 / 2021 04 / 07 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 27 / 06 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 20 / 06 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 06 / 06 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 23 / 05 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 09 / 05 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed all the previous races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 02 / 05 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed the first three races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 18 / 04 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed the first two races - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. The weightings for Alpine have increased because they've been a bit shit. 28 / 03 / 2021 You can still enter a new team even if you missed the first race - you'll get a late starter bonus to help you get going. 21 / 03 / 2021
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Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Directed by Jean-François Richet. Story: A remake of the 1976 John Carpenter movie sees a closing Detroit police precinct under siege. Running Time: 1hr 49 minutes. Certificate 15.
Nothing special here - a police station on its last night of operation is placed under siege. There's lots of shooting, lost of killing and lots of who-can-I-trust shenanigans. This time next year you won't even remember you saw it, but for an evening's escapism you could do a lot worse.
I enjoyed this film: I think the average moviegoer will enjoy it: Testosterone Satisfaction Rating: Some gratuitously graphic violence, lots of shooting. To enjoy this film you should: Appreciate simple violent action.
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Cast: Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Byrne, Maria Bello, John Leguizamo, Brian Dennehy, Drea de Matteo, Ja Rule.
I've a feeling this is going to be a pretty short review. There simply isn't a lot I can say without ruining
the plot for you.
I can say that the police station is under siege, because that's pretty much implied by the title, and I can
say that it doesn't all go according to the Hollywood Rules for Scripts - I was most surprised by one
particular turn of events - but other twists are carefully suggested by subtle headshots to help the audience
feel smug that we saw it coming. Ethan Hawke is the man of the movie, we know that because he's in the opening
scene that skilfully maps the character. Immediately afterwards, we are introduced to sassy psychiatrist
Maria Bello and learn that Mr Hawke has some issues to deal with (surely not). Gabriel Byrne is Big Police
Honcho Man who has just brought Big Bad Cop-Killing Ooze-Silent-Menace Guy Laurence Fishburne into captivity
in the snowbound Precinct 13 on
the last night of its operation before being moved across town. Well look at that, it turns out I could tell
you quite a lot without ruining it after all.
To be honest there isn't very much to say - it's an action movie and it works nicely, I don't resent paying six
quid to see it but I won't be placing it on my you-gotta-see-this list. Laurence Fishburne's Morpheus-minus-morals
performance is by far the most memorable, though John Leguizamo and Maria Bello both contribute beautifully judged
characters. Ethan Hawke, while not doing anything wrong, is a little upstaged by his colleagues, but that helps to
convey his difficulty in returning to real life-and-death police work (one of his "issues"). As the siege progresses,
the story develops cogently and there is a real how-the-hell-are-they-getting-out-of-this-one sense as the
tension mounts. Stories such as this one will never be totally believable, but Assault is pretty close. Each
potential why-didn't-they-do-that hole is confronted and addressed, which really helps the watchability of the film.
The ending is the only part that I wasn't comfortable with - it felt tacked on, as if not as much thought had been
put into it as the remainder, however it didn't detract from what is a simple but effective action siege movie.
Connoisseurs of the action genre, however, may be disappointed. Assault on Precinct 13 offers nothing new or
particularly exciting - though teenage boys will appreciate the gratuitous shots of the knife-in-the-eye
deaths - it's just a competently crafted tale with killing in it, so in a way it's an action movie for non-fans
of action movies.
