It stars Gino Anthony Pesi as a lone NYPD officer who is forced to team up with a new recruit, played by Kristen Renton, on his next duty dealing with violent crimes in New York City.

Despite legal hurdles over allegations of unfair labor practices committed on set (which Boll denied), it premiered in his native Germany at the Independent Days International Filmfest on April 10, 2024, and had a simultaneous release in the United States and Canada on August 30, 2024.

[1][6] On February 16, 2023, Variety reported that German filmmaker Uwe Boll was set to begin principal photography on the crime drama First Shift in March, his first feature in at least five years, following Rampage: President Down (2016).

[6] First Shift marks Boll's formal return to filmmaking after serving brief stints as a restaurateur and documentarian: following President Down, he went on hiatus to set up an upscale restaurant in Vancouver (now defunct) as well as direct a low-budget German documentary about the Hanau shootings.

This, however, "ended without incident" after Boll managed to convince the union that rubber guns were used in addition to gunshots utilizing a mix of practical and digital effects, a claim corroborated by his German executive producer Michael Roesch.