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。
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...
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。
