Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the C.I.A. and while on a case for them, one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.
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...
阿华（刘德华 饰）一直想当一名好警察，正当他得到了好机会正想大展拳脚的时候，他被调至的小组意志十分消沉，完全没有工作的干劲。他们的队伍常常受到另一队由张扬（张耀扬 饰）的出色人马藐视。阿华十分不满扬的作风，更在一次行动中与之发生冲突。 阿华的母亲（林建明 饰）召回了家中，因为阿华的女友阿兰（张曼玉 饰）受父亲（秦沛 饰）所逼要嫁给一个与她完全没有感情的有钱人，阿兰的父亲更是阿华的师傅，情与义之间不知如何抉择。令阿华更加烦恼的是，自己的母亲竟然与自己的同事秋（黄秋生 饰）发生了感情。 回到警察局后，一群匪徒企图闯进入拯救自己的同党，但阿华成功擒拿匪徒的功劳竟然被张扬设计夺走。忍无可忍的阿华决定与张扬在跆拳道赛中一决胜负。
该片是英年早逝的美国演员瑞凡·菲尼克斯的未竟遗作：试图通过第二趟蜜月挽救婚姻危机的好莱坞夫妇因汽车抛锚搁浅于荒漠，在这片宛若末日的犹他州不毛之地，一名有着印地安血统的男子独居在核试爆区的小屋，他的妻子曾经因核辐射引发的癌症而丧命。此时，因有了夫妻两人的短暂陪伴，他竟渴望起更亲密的关系，从而渐渐演变成一场情仇血案。导演乔治·斯鲁依泽在片头表示，这部电影就像一张只有两条腿的椅子，剪辑赋予了它第三条腿，虽然第四条腿永远不在了，但椅子依然能够站着。（小易甫字幕组）
