The film follows a military veteran (Dave Bautista) and a graduate student (Brittany Snow) who are caught in an invasion of New York City by a secessionist militia, as they work together to rescue family members and reach a civilian evacuation point.

In the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, second-year civil engineering graduate student Lucy and her boyfriend Jose exit a subway train into an empty station, when a man runs in on fire.

The NAC planned to fight an insurgency in American cities, specifically targeting neighborhoods with "defenseless" minorities such as Bushwick to seize first, but they did not account for such fierce armed resistance from the civilian populace.

As they wait for James, his mother, and Belinda to arrive at their rally point in a laundromat, Stupe reveals his family died in the September 11 attacks and that he was trying to abandon Lucy on the way to Hoboken, but admits he is glad they stuck together.

The site's critical consensus reads, "Bushwick's sociopolitical subtext gives it more heft than the average action thriller, but those ideas are given short shrift in what amounts to a disappointing shoot-'em-up.

[10] Geoff Berkshire at Variety wrote that "Even if the low-budget execution is uneven at times, there’s enough snap to the filmmaking, and enough raw power in the premise, to make for solid B-movie excitement.