The basic premise is a far stretch. A Detroit precinct scheduled to close is on its last legs on New Year’s Eve. Holding the fort are Ethan Hawke as Jake Roenick, who in a prelude is shown as an undercover cop working a drug bust that goes wrong and results in police deaths. He’s been nursing a psychological problem ever since. There’s also Brian Dennehy as Jasper O’Shea, who is about to retire. Add Drea de Matteo as Iris, a sex-craving receptionist, and Maria Bello as Alex, the psychiatrist who is treating the resisting Jake.

The scene livens when Laurence Fishburne as the vicious criminal and killer Bishop, under arrest and in a van with lesser lawbreakers, including, John Leguizamo as the hopped up drug addict Beck, is brought to the precinct to be held overnight. He is in league with so many corrupt cops that a police force has been assembled by the cop ringleader Duvall (Gabriel Byrne) to assault the station, kill Bishop so he can’t spill the beans about the corruption network and murder everyone else in the station who could be a witness.