Assault on Precinct 13 is a 2005 action thriller film directed by Jean-François Richet and starring Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne, John Leguizamo, Maria Bello, Ja Rule, Drea de Matteo, Brian Dennehy, and Gabriel Byrne released to mixed or average critic reviews.

Following a failed sting operation in which two fellow undercover officers are killed months prior, Detroit Police Department Sergeant Jake Roenick begins to regularly abuse alcohol and painkillers while clinging to his unambitious assignment as a desk sergeant at Precinct 13, which is due to be decommissioned.

On New Year's Eve, Roenick, Officer Jasper O'Shea, and secretary Iris Ferry maintain a skeleton shift.

Crime boss Marion Bishop is arrested after killing an undercover policeman and is set to be transferred to prison with three other criminals: Beck, Anna, and Smiley.

Masked gunmen cut off the precinct's communications and electricity, and attack the station, killing the deputies before demanding that Bishop be handed over.

Roenick kills one of the attackers and finds he is an undercover cop working under Captain Marcus Duvall of Precinct 21.

When Iris arrives with police and firemen, Roenick claims that only he and Duvall's gang are present, knowing that Bishop can't go too far but wanting to give him the illusion of liberty.