芝加哥探员尼古，不幸被人诬告吃官司，为了查出真相，他决定逃走，在警方围捕和敌人追杀的恶劣环境下，独力查找真相，回复自己的自由和清白。
John Wood left the pieces of a broken civilisation behind, to go back to his roots in the woodland, after a virus pandemic struck the world. Residing in a simple cabin, he only wants peace and to live in harmony with nature. Coming from a long line of timber men, he joined the army and served as a soldier for many years. Rebelling against his superiors for killing civilians under martial law. John feels he got his own wife killed when saving hundreds of innocent civilians from certain death. His wife executed point blank as retribution for John's disobedience and supposed heroic acts. Now, a young woman named Maria Johnson has escaped a pandemic research lab. She's been part of experiments to find a cure for the still raging virus. Carrying the potential cure in her blood, she is hunted by profiteers and mercenaries who knows her secret. Coming upon John's cabin in the woods, Maria is instinctively taken into shelter by John. He wants her to recover fast and leave, but by learning her...
阿华（刘德华 饰）一直想当一名好警察，正当他得到了好机会正想大展拳脚的时候，他被调至的小组意志十分消沉，完全没有工作的干劲。他们的队伍常常受到另一队由张扬（张耀扬 饰）的出色人马藐视。阿华十分不满扬的作风，更在一次行动中与之发生冲突。 阿华的母亲（林建明 饰）召回了家中，因为阿华的女友阿兰（张曼玉 饰）受父亲（秦沛 饰）所逼要嫁给一个与她完全没有感情的有钱人，阿兰的父亲更是阿华的师傅，情与义之间不知如何抉择。令阿华更加烦恼的是，自己的母亲竟然与自己的同事秋（黄秋生 饰）发生了感情。 回到警察局后，一群匪徒企图闯进入拯救自己的同党，但阿华成功擒拿匪徒的功劳竟然被张扬设计夺走。忍无可忍的阿华决定与张扬在跆拳道赛中一决胜负。
罗伯特·戴维依饰演纽约市的警官柯代尔，原是警界精英，但过分忠直却处处树敌，终于被敌人诬陷下狱。他在狱中受尽折磨，心性大变，复仇之火使他变成极尽毁灭能事的刽子手，甚至在出狱后仍要重回监狱去对付那些欺负过他的仇人。
