杰克·格林（杰森·斯坦森 Jason Statham 饰）是一个整日游走于各种赌局的职业赌徒，然而却因为在一次大意的赌局中，被赌界黑势力巨头多西·马查（雷·利奥塔 Ray Liotta 饰）下套，最终锒铛入狱。然而七年的牢狱之灾对杰克来说却并不无裨益，当他发现他的两个狱友分别是国际象棋大师和骗术高手时，便开始了学习深造的道路。刑满出狱的杰克已经身怀绝技，雄心勃勃地决定重返江湖，并报当年一箭之仇。
　　今时不同往日的杰克很快在赌场上如鱼得水所向披靡，还狠狠地羞辱了多西·马查一回。然而马查也不是好惹的角色，恼羞成怒的他下决心要除掉杰克。然而祸不单行，就在杰克在忙着躲避多西的围堵之时，命运竟告知他患上了罕见的血液病，生命只剩下三天期限…

2020 年 12 月，前警官格里沙·德米特里耶夫与一小群俄罗斯教官抵达中非共和国。格里沙的任务看起来并不复杂，因为教官的任务只是向当地军队士兵传授基本的战术和战斗方法。然而，一切从一开始就出错了。几个土匪团体在首都游行，在该国发动政变。俄罗斯教官和他们的学员们一起反击土匪。但对于从未参加过军事行动的格里沙来说，这次出差就变成了人间地狱

Sometime in the near future, paraplegic prison inmate Matt Mills meets "The Board" of Satoshi-Telefair Industries, who thank him for joining the Program. Under pressure and with a promise to make him walk again, Mills agrees to volunteer. He is injected with a synthetic nanomaterial and suffocated, only to wake up with restored use of his legs, yet alone in a steel cell in the first spoke of an experimental apparatus - The Wheel. A series of assailants inflict a multitude of damage to Mills' body and torment his mind, yet the synthetic nanomaterial not only restores his damaged organs, it re-engineers his strength. The experiment might be designed to kill, but Mills is determined to survive - and get back to his daughter before The Board finds her first.