一位在欧洲留学的女大生希瑟偶然发现了一个恐怖组织策划的谋杀案，她作为主要证人处于生命危险之中……

烏茲別克特勤局警探帖木兒薩里耶夫得知他那應該已經死去的兄弟還活著，並隸屬於天蠍幫恐怖組織，這是他正在負責進行調查並追捕的組織。薩里耶夫冒著生命危險和職業生涯，跟隨他兄弟的腳步進入了一個混亂和充滿戰爭的國家，他要與兄弟同流合污嗎？還是大義滅親維持該地區的和平？

2050年，流行病肆虐全球，兩名偵探正著手調查一連串邪門的謀殺案，是惡魔所為的謠言四起，但真正有關的居然是...神秘忍者！

While hunting in the jungle, one day, Vijay save the life of a young man from the sudden attack of a wild hawk. There and then Vijay realizes that he have just save the life of a miraculous snake who have the powers to take the form of a human and who have been dating his beloved; also a miraculous female snake. Vijay browse this news to his five friends who immediately shoot the male snake to death. Enraged at the brutal killing of her beloved; the female snake begins to take revenge on the six friends, killing them one by one by taking the form of humans. Now the only one who can save the six friends is a sage but it certainly looks like the miraculous snake might as well do away with all her enemies before the sage lay hands on her.

22岁的毒贩克里斯（埃米尔·赫斯基 Emile Hirsch 饰）欠了一屁股债，高利贷主正威胁要追杀他。为保性命，他想到了唯一的办法，就是谋杀亲母阿黛尔以赚取高额保险，并联合了父亲、继母和妹妹多蒂（朱诺·坦普尔 Juno Temple 饰）一起瓜分这笔横财。然而克里斯不愿自己动手，遂瞄准了专业杀手乔（马修·麦康纳 Matthew McConaughey 饰），然而乔只做买卖不做慈善，筹不够钱不会动手。束手无策之时，克里斯只好先把妹妹暂时当“订金”交给乔。本以为万事办妥，只等坐收巨款的克里斯，却没想到事情竟往戏剧化的方向发展而去……　　本片曾获土星奖最佳独立电影、最佳男主角、最佳导演、最佳女配角、最佳编剧奖。