When football star-turned bounty hunter Truck Turner (Isaac Hayes) is employed to track down a man named Gator, he and his partner carry out the job as usual. Unfortunately, after a chase Gator is killed, and his girlfriend, Dorinda (Nichelle 'Star Trek' Nichols) wants revenge. She sets top hitman Blue (Yaphet Kotto) on Truck's trail, and he soon finds himself fighting for his life.

John Carpenter directs this tense remake of the classic Howard Hawks western 'Rio Bravo'. Set in modern-day Los Angeles, it concerns a mob of crazy guerilla gunmen who lay siege to a soon-to-be-closed police station, trapping a single cop (Austin Stoker) and a couple of secretaries (Laurie Zimmer and Nancy Loomis) inside. The gunmen unleash wave upon wave of attacks on the beleaguered station, but the cop proves himself a resourceful foe.