Metro plot
"San Francisco's top police hostage negotiator is about to get more than he ever bargained for."
The film is about a hostage negotiator employed by the San Francisco Metropolitan Police named Scott Roper (Eddie Murphy). His unorthodox, yet successful methods make him the best in his field. Roper is paired up with a young, trigger-happy sniper McCall (Michael Rapaport), whom he must teach the art of negotiation. Despite their differences, they manage to catch a completely deranged psychopath together. Even Roper's sharp tongue can't stop him from escaping again. When it turns out that the psychopath has his sights set on revenge, Roper and McCall become involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse.