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白江东是黑道中的中阿哥，他有个女儿叫安妮，她在江湖上也是出了名的红粉杀手。这一天，白江东带领两个结拜兄弟陈威和小龙来到龙虎滩，和另一派的大阿哥许大求进行毒品交易，事成后许大来拿着毒品带领一班手下离去，白江东手提钱箱朝自己的私家车走来，就在这个时候，陈威和小龙突然拔出手枪将白江东射杀，抢了他的钱箱然后驾车离去。陈威和丁小龙回去向安妮报告，说大哥白江东被许大来杀害，安妮听到这个消息，如巨雷轰顶，誓要替父报分仇……
杰克（尚格·云顿 Jean-Claude Van Damme 饰）曾经是一名隶属于美国中央情报局的反恐情报人员，如今已经退休的他来到了法国，和妻子凯瑟琳（娜塔莎·兰丁格尔 Natacha Lindinger 饰）一同享受起了闲散而又平静的生活。一个名叫仕达罗（米基·洛克 Mickey Rourke 饰）的恐怖分子引起了情报局的恐慌，为了将他制服，情报局请求业务能力优秀的杰克重新出山，杰克欣然应允。 在一次交锋中，杰克对仕达罗妻儿的仁慈让仕达罗得以逃脱，而杰克也因此遭到了被情报局软禁的命运。不幸的是，杰克的仁慈并没能挽救仕达罗妻儿的性命，悲愤之中，仕达罗绑架了凯瑟琳。在狱中听闻此噩耗的杰克当即下定决心，不惜越狱也要将仕达罗捉拿归案。
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...
