退役前，邦·汉姆（汤米·李·琼斯 Tommy Lee Jones 饰）是一名特种兵训练教官，凭借着自己出色的身手和丰富的野外生存经验，邦·汉姆训练出了一支战斗力和破坏力的极其强大的特种精英部队。城市周边发生的几起谋杀案让居民们陷入了恐慌，负责该案件的女探员艾比（康妮·尼尔森 Connie Nielsen 饰）找到了早已远离江湖的邦·汉姆，希望他能够协助她破案。　　经过了一些列的调查和追踪，邦·汉姆发现凶手的作案手法和风格与自己十分相似，那也就意味着，这个嗜血的凶徒，很可能就是自己曾经教导过的学生。渐渐的，一个名叫亚伦（本尼西奥·德尔·托罗 Benicio Del Toro 饰）的男人的身影浮出了水面，他正是凶手本人，而他所作的这一切不为了别的，只为了引诱邦·汉姆再度出山。

讲述两个拉丁裔家庭争夺财富和权力的故事

After years on the run, the mystery man known as Trick is back, but not on his own terms. Trick finds himself trapped in a cage with four other hostages - all of them paralyzed from the neck down. When Trick realizes that one of the other hostages is an old foe, Detective Epperson, the two begin working together to uncover the connection between them and their captor - a masked man they suspect is the infamous Deathstalker Killer. Meanwhile, Agent Bobby Church of the FBI is investigating Epperson's disappearance and discovers the detective vanished while he had been following a lead in the Deathstalker case. The search soon has Church crossing paths with Epperson's former partner, Scott, himself looking into the abduction of his friend, Olivia. After Scott and Church discover cellphone pictures of Olivia in the cage with both Trick and Epperson, they know they must race against the clock to find the location of the cage before time runs out, and the hostages are executed one-by-one.