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...
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。
