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。
八国联军入京，朝廷出奔，举国局势一度混乱。黄飞鸿（赵文卓 饰）与父亲黄麒英（刘询 饰）、十四姨（王静莹 饰）、徒弟梁宽（莫少聪 饰）、鬼脚七（熊欣欣 饰）一行人南下番禹，欲与十三姨（关之琳 饰）、猪肉荣（郑则仕 饰）、牙擦苏（郭晋安 饰）汇合。师徒于路同担心海盗夺粮的南粤米仓发生误会，两帮人不打不相识，黄飞鸿助其将盗米贼扭送衙门，惊觉盗米竟是差役领班谢四（张铁林 饰）指使。原来南海海盗趁局势混乱，活动频繁，使番禹一地早无官员统制，差役不得已靠偷盗维持口粮。黄飞鸿有感谢四等人忠义，遂放弃赴港计划，与当地海盗单眼英、张玉麟、张保仔等人展开连场搏杀…… 本片是徐克执导黄飞鸿系列的第五部。
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...
