Genre: Action
Director: Gareth Evans
Writer: Jack Ryder
Based on the film New Police Story
Cast: Will Smith, Taron Egerton, John Boyega, Sofia Vergara, Deborah Ann Woll, Sullivan Stapleton, Christopher Meloni, Don Cheadle, Evan Peters, Maisie Williams, Alfie Allen, Nadji Jeter
Plot: In the present day, a group of rebellious youths rob a bank. They explicitly ask a bank worker to call the police, and are confronted by the police outside of City Hall building. They play a sadistic game, in which they are awarded money for shooting police officers with assault rifles, before making their escape. Inspector William Compton (Will Smith) and his squad are called to arrest the gang after their hideout is revealed. However, the hideout is rigged with traps, and the entire squad is decimated. William then finds his men in a large warehouse, suspended from the high ceiling by ropes. The gang challenges him to training regimes that are taught to policemen, betting lives of his men each time. Under mental pressure and the taunts of the gang, William loses and is left with only his would-be brother-in-law to save, who soon dies nevertheless. He tries to save the bodies of his comrades for burial before explosives blow up the building.
Being the sole survivor of the incident, William takes a year long leave from the police force, drinking heavily to drown his sorrows and guilt. William is discovered by a stranger and taken to the stranger's home. The stranger identifies himself to William as PC 1667, Frank Giles (Taron Egerton), his new partner. Frank tries various means to convince William to cancel his leave and take up the case but William refuses. However, William comes to his senses eventually by apprehending the same two youths that robbed him in an earlier scene while William was drunk. At the police station, Frank tells William that he is Ramsay's younger brother, which convinces William to reopen the case. William's superior John Sharpe (Christopher Meloni), initially believing that William's overconfidence alone was responsible for the disastrous raid, challenges them to solve the case before he does.
Frank and William convince Sam Wool (Sullivan Stapleton), a former colleague of William, to reveal a clue from the night of the first robbery, a watch which he snatched from one of the robbers during a confrontation in. He tells them all he knows is that one of the gang members is a woman and that they like to play X-Games. This is confirmed by fellow police officer Suzanne (Deborah Ann Woll). William and Frank are tailed by John Sharpe and the police as they go in search of the owner of the watch at an upcoming X-Games event; Sam Wool had been arrested by the police to assist in the investigation. At the event, held on the rooftop of a skyscraper, Frank and William manage to locate one of the gang members, Fire while Sam and the police interrupt the event and single out the woman robber, Sue (Maisie Williams). Before they can apprehend her, however, Fire (Evan Peters) sneaks up on the police and fatally shoots Sam and starts a gunfight in which Sue and several policemen are wounded, allowing the two gang members to escape. Before dying, Sam confesses to William that he was blackmailed by the gang into revealing their rigged hideout to William's team due to the bag of money he took from Sue to pay off his debts. John Sharpe, upon overhearing this, has a change of heart.
Fire and Sue both manage to rappel down the building, with William and Frank pursuing Fire. To distract William, Fire shoots at a bus driver and sends the vehicle out of control. William quickly jumps onto the roof of the bus in order to stop it, while Frank rams a truck full of rubber ducks in front of the bus' path to prevent its fall into the L.A. River.
After the incident, William discovers that Frank is not really a policeman, and confronts him. Frank attempts to explain to William, but William refuses to believe the story. Regardless, they stay together to continue to track the gang leader, Joe (John Boyega). They are informed by Officer Suzanne that the gang members all come from rich families and Joe is actually the son of the police chief.
Sue and Fire return to the gang's new hideout. Seeing Sue's injury, Joe shoots and kills her. Joe's gang accesses William's police file on a computer, with Joe bent on taking revenge.
Joe then arranges to meet William's girlfriend, Hillary (Sofia Vergara), in the police station. He wraps a time bomb around her neck before leaving. When William learns of the bomb he desperately tries to free her. Hillary cuts the wires, with no effect, leading the police to believe that it is a fake. But when the two get ready to leave, a small wire attached to Hillary's back pulls out the secondary trigger, causing the bomb to explode. Before she can escape, it explodes and some falling pipes land on her, knocking her into a coma. Learning of Frank's false identity, William and Frank are arrested by the police force temporarily, long before the pair are unofficially released to apprehend the gang.
William, Frank, and Suzanne learn that the gang's next target is the Bank of Los Angeles, located in the new wing of the Convention and Exhibition Center.
A squad of police officers arrive, but this time William stops them from rushing in, assigning them the task of calmly escorting the public out of the building. Once the public are moved to safety, the gang members' parents are sent in, causing dissent within Joe's gang, prompting Joe to kill gang member Max (Alfie Allen) for surrendering to the police.
Afterwards, William and Frank run up to engage the three remaining gang members. Frank manages to shoot Fire in the leg with his own gun, disabling him. William chases another gang member, Tin Tin (Nadji Jeter), into a Lego exhibition. When the exhibition hall is emptied, William reminds him that they had struck a draw the last time they fought. The two engage in hand-to-hand combat, with William defeating Tin Tin. Joe then chases Frank into the hall and shoots at him. In the crossfire, Tin Tin is shot in the chest.
Joe manages to chase Frank out of the room just moments before the Special Duties Unit of the police arrives. Tin Tin grabs a gun from the floor and points it at William's back. William, oblivious to what's happening behind him, calls out to the squad to bring in a medic for Tin Tin, prompting Tin Tin to spare William.
William finds Joe on the roof of the Convention Center. Having captured and tied up Frank, Joe threatens to throw him to his death. Joe challenges William to a race to assemble a semi automatic pistol, a rematch of an earlier challenge, and wagering Frank's life in the process. This time, William chambers the bullet first and wins the game, much to Joe's disbelief. A number of policemen arrive on the roof, along with Joe's father, the police Chief Levitt (Don Cheadle). Joe's father reprimands him, while William tells Joe that he knows that he doesn't hate cops, he merely hates his father for berating and abusing him in his childhood.
Due to what William and his father have said, Joe finally admits defeat and deliberately unloads the single bullet in his gun and aims the empty gun at William for the police to have a cause to kill Joe. Not knowing that Joe's gun is empty, a police sniper then fires and injures Joe. He weeps and aims at his father, causing the sniper to fire once more, hitting him in the chest and presumably killing him despite William's yelling that the gun was empty. William rushes to rescue Frank and both of them fall off the building. They eventually land onto a fireman's inflated cushion.
In the hospital, Hillary has recovered and prepares to leave before accepting William's marriage proposal. Meanwhile, Frank is led away by Officer Suzanne. He leaves his jacket on a railing. When William looks at the jacket, he suddenly recalls an event from years ago: a homeless man from the mainland arrives without much money, and his son is starving. He tries to steal some food for his son from a 7-Eleven store. While running across the road to escape from the shopkeeper and the police, he is hit by a truck and killed. While another officer sneers at the dead man, William arrives at the scene and uses his jacket to cover the body of the boy's father, telling the other officer that even a thief has dignity. William then buys the boy a loaf of bread. He comforts him, saying that the best thing do is to try to forget the past and look forward to the future. He gives the boy his jacket and asks his name to which the boy replies "Frank Giles".
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