家道中落，汤姆（詹姆斯·马歇尔 James Marshall 饰）无奈之下跟随父亲搬到了贫民窟，在这里，残酷的生活等待着他。一名拳击经纪人看上了体格健壮的汤姆并将他介绍给了拳击教练诺亚（奥西·戴维斯 Ossie Davis 饰），没过多久，经验丰富的诺亚就将汤姆训练成为了一名职业拳击手。
首战告捷的诺亚吸引了拳击俱乐部老板何恩的注意，他买下了汤姆父亲所欠下的全部债务，就这样，汤姆成为了何恩赚钱的工具。在拳击场上，汤姆结识了志同道合的好友林肯（小库珀·古丁 Cuba Gooding Jr. 饰），两人饰生活中的好伙伴，同时也是赛场上的竞争对手。随着时间的推移，汤姆逐渐看清了何恩贪婪而又残忍的真面目，与此同时，汤姆得知，他的下一个对手，竟然正是林肯。
俄美两国策划一起反恐行动，派出特种部队擒获了掌握核武器的哈萨克王国独裁者伊万•雷迪克将军（Jurgen Prochnow 饰）。数周后的庆功宴上，曾为越战老兵的美国总统詹姆斯•马舍尔（哈里森•福特Harrison Ford 饰）针对恐怖分子和独裁政权发表了强硬而精彩的演说。莫斯科之旅圆满结束，总统一家及其政要乘空军一号返回美国，同行的还有艾格（加里•奥德曼 Gary Oldman 饰）带队的俄罗斯媒体工作人员。
安全人员百密一疏，艾格的真实身份是效忠于雷迪克将军的恐怖分子。飞机起飞后，艾格和同伴们劫持飞机，绑架美国政要及总统家人，只有詹姆斯侥幸逃脱。恐怖分子要求俄美释放雷迪克将军，而藏身空军一号中的詹姆斯则和这群匪徒展开殊死决斗……
aan Singh and Prithvi Singh's families have been locked in a property dispute in a Court in India. When the Court gives a verdict in favor of Prithvi, Maan hires a bandit, Panna Singh, to kill Prithvi and all of his family. Panna only partially succeeds, and retreats badly wounded to a dense forest to escape Prithvi's wrath. But the harm has been done, Prithvi has lost his sister and other family to this vicious assault, and has vowed to avenge this by killing Maan's family, and he does so with partial success, thus incurring the wrath of Maan's Police Inspector brother, Suraj Singh. Prithvi then goes into hiding and is now called Daku Prithvi Singh. The only survivors from his family are his daughter, Chandra, his aunt, and her son, Himmat, while Suraj Singh lives with his son, Akash. Years later, an educated Akash meets with an uneducated Chandra and both fall in love with each. When their respective fathers' find out, they are told not to see each other again and their marriages' ...
