簡介：Charlie Reed is a man in a dead end job. But while he contemplates a change, he is suddenly promoted to the top security level of his company and asked to take over from a colleague who has mysteriously disappeared. However, not soon after taking up his new position Charlie receives an unidentifiable encoded e-mail containing some top secret information.
洛杉磯警局的談專家杰夫（布魯?威利斯 Bruce Willis 飾）在一次解救被劫持人質(zhì)行失敗后，心灰意，覺得自己已經(jīng)再適合擔(dān)當(dāng)起這重要的工作，于申請調(diào)職前往一治安良好小鎮(zhèn)的察局任職，心想那里平靜的度過半輩子。 這天，小鎮(zhèn)的三名不良青年意偷走會計(jì)師史密（凱文?波拉克 Kevin Pollak 飾）的汽車時(shí)，意外令們困在了一棟豪當(dāng)中，驚慌失措三人劫持了史密一家作人質(zhì)。一沒有應(yīng)付過這種面的小鎮(zhèn)警察們時(shí)手忙腳亂。杰只能再次出馬，操舊業(yè)。同一時(shí)，杰夫的家人也到了綁架。杰夫對這起雙面綁架會如何處理?
