故事发生在大都会之战18个月后，在那场战斗中许多建筑和市民惨遭波及。因为超人（亨利·卡维尔 饰）帮助人类解决了很多问题而被当做神来膜拜，但超人也因与佐德之战对城市造成的破坏而遭到逮捕和审讯，一度成为都市传说的蝙蝠侠韦恩（本·阿弗莱克 饰）重新出现在人们面前，他似乎正是为了惩罚超人而来。年轻的富豪莱克斯·卢瑟（杰西·艾森伯格 饰）又在二者的矛盾中挑拨离间，神秘的戴安娜·普林斯（盖尔·加朵 饰）也因自己的目的介入其中……

卧底探员杰克·罗尼克（Ethan Hawke 饰）为执行任务期间两位搭档的身亡而自责，于是调离了原岗担任13号警署的警长，心理医师艾丽科斯定期为他辅导，但杰克用玩世不恭的态度掩饰苦闷。新年夜里，大雪骤降，13号警署只有杰克、老警员贾斯帕和秘书爱丽丝三人值班，新近落网的黑帮头目毕绍普（Laurence Fishburne 饰）与另外三名罪犯正在押解的途中，由于大雪封路，押解车拐入13号警署暂歇，艾丽科斯也不得不滞留警署。两名押解警加入了庆祝新年的小型聚会，突然之间形势急转直下，押解警中弹身亡，数十名武装人员包围了13号警署并切断了杰克等人与外界的联系，杰克从入侵者的身上搜出警员证件，发现对方是长期与毕绍普合作的警队败类，现在为防止事情败露欲杀人灭口，杰克只好借助四名犯人的力量，和全副武装的警队败类们展开连番激战。　　本片翻拍自1976年由卡朋特指导的同名影片，获2005年加拿大导演协会最佳音效剪辑奖。

Having witnessed his junkie father killed Russell Stevens grows up to become a policeman and make a difference. When he is offered an undercover job by Gerald Carver he accepts and begins to build a relationship with David Jason in order to get to the main dealers. However as he is forced to deal drugs and kill to keep his cover he finds the lines between cop and criminal being lost – is he a cop pretending to be a dealer or a dealer pretending to be a cop　　Larry (as he was then) Fishburne's first lead role was a typically dark vehicle. The story is the usual one of cop losing himself when undercover, however it manages to be more than that for most of the time. Co-written by Tolkin, who wrote The Player, this naturally has a nice cynical edge to it when it looks at the US's hypocritical approach to drug control and the political links between the street hustlers and the political high rollers who court respectability. The story does eventually settle into a traditional setting but even then it works well as a thriller.　　The multi-talented Bill Duke directs well with a gritty feel and a few nice touches. However several things are a bit iffy. For most of the film Fishburne's narrationvoice over is a bit like a cross between Apocalypse Now and Blade Runner – it comes across as a little too dark and heavy and also explains things like we can't figure it out ourselves. However once you get into the film it's not as big a deal. My main problem lies with the characters.　　Fishburne is excellent, a real model of underlying anger and violence, Goldblum is good but perhaps a little OTT on the yuppieviolence thing, but there's good support from Smith and Spin City's beautiful (and often underused – but not here) Victoria Dillard. However the two main white characters (Goldblum and Smith) are both smeared with racist insinuations – Smith appears to insult his black officers and doesn't care about the junkies, while Goldblum is fascinated about all things black and talks about them as wild beautiful beasts and loves having sex with black'. These things aren't a major problem, but with basically only two white characters in it, it's a little worrying that both are given that edge.　　However these are minor complaints that get lost with a good thriller. Fishburne excels and Duke delivers a story that is a good thriller but also has a jaded, subversive edge.