喬瑟夫斯蒂德曼（羅艾爾達德 飾）是一位家庭生活失意、和女兒感情產生裂痕的中年男子，某天他被一位喪心病狂的科學家綁架後強制作為實驗對象，未料實驗結果卻讓他意外擁有了毀滅性的強大超能力。此時，宇宙的伽馬射線爆發為地球帶來致命的巨大威脅，地球上的人類無力守住家園，喬瑟夫決定用他的超能力拯救最摯愛的女兒與全世界，殊不知這個超能力不只能夠拯救地球，也足以摧毀地球……。
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...
由巴兹．库利克导演的该片是史蒂夫·麦奎因的最后遗作，虽然有点 “英雄老矣"的感慨，但他仍将剧中的瑞夫索尔森一角演绎得栩栩如生，入木三分。拍片过程中的高难和危险动作他必亲自上阵，所以给片中的追逐场面增添了几分真实感和刺激感。 该片取材于一个真实故事，讲述一名以追捕通缉犯领取奖金为生的捕头瑞夫索尔森，因长期忙于追捕工作而忽略了与女朋友的关系，致使女友出走。而此时，曾被他逮捕归案的梅森已出狱，他矢志报瑞夫索尔森一箭之仇。他在成功挟持瑞夫索尔森的女友后，两人终于再次对峙。
这是一部充满冒险与浪漫的神话故事，片中阿拉伯式的热情异国的服饰与豪华的礼宴、神奇的魔毯，带领观众进入这部人性两面的奇幻世界
