话说满清打下天下，江山传到咸丰一朝。随着腐朽僵化的王朝一再滑落，外忧内患之际，反清复明以及推翻满人政权的革命火种如星星之火般蔓延开来，并越烧越旺。落榜举人洪秀全建立太平天国，此事成为令满清皇帝最为头疼的威胁之一。旅居海外多年的林海南（邱建国 饰）辗转回到故土，试图用华侨们凑集的巨款支援太平天国。谁知清廷早已得知消息，派出心狠手辣、诡计多端的崔佐邦（徐学义 饰）半路阻击。林海南得到戏班花锦绣的救助，并凭借一身武艺击退恶霸，挣得了“南拳王”的名号，谁知却因此使花锦绣遭遇灭顶之灾。 历经苦难转交巨款之后，海南和戏班幸存者们苦练武功，发誓一定要向崔佐邦报仇……
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...
故事接上集，为了完成阎罗王（李政宰 饰）开出的条件，解怨脈（朱智勋 饰）与德春（金香起 饰）与凶悍的城主神（马东锡 饰）展开决斗。江林（河正宇 饰）也力劝一等兵（都暻秀 饰）公开秀鸿意外死亡的真相，就在阴间使者们试图完成任务的同时，千年前，他们生前的悲剧也将被逐一揭开…
