This is story about a dentist with the talent of painlessly extracting teeth, and what happens to him as a result of being naturally good at his job. It is told with humour (much of it quite subtle, almost surreal, and in the background - imagine a street scene where everyone on the sidewalk on one side of the road walks in just one direction, and on the other side in the other), poignancy, and a frequent breaking of the 4th wall between the movie and the audience (think of what happens in Shakespeare's plays, and you'll be close). It also features some songs by Novella Matveyeva, a famous Russian singer-songwriter (her songs are sung by the leading actress).

故事發(fā)生在1996年之前的香港，女主雪莉在自己的婚禮現(xiàn)場遭遇劫匪挾持，并目睹丈夫死于匪徒槍下。無法走出陰霾的她現(xiàn)于一家射箭館任職。臺風(fēng)之夜，她意外滯留樓內(nèi)，目擊同一幫匪徒在大廈內(nèi)殺人，她也不慎暴露了自己的蹤跡，在驚惶不安的逃亡過程中，她意外遇到了同為滯留者的盲眼老人南哥，兩人一邊抵抗匪徒的無情追殺，一邊設(shè)法逃離這棟噩夢般的大廈。然而窮兇極惡的匪徒竟要殺人滅口，雪莉與南哥在信號中斷、出口全部被封的大樓內(nèi)，苦苦找尋著活下去的辦法……

別看如今的杰克（蒂姆·艾倫 Tim Allen 飾）肚大腰圓，他可是曾經(jīng)為政府所雇傭的超能力秘密特工，當(dāng)年，為了消滅人類最強大的敵人“激進(jìn)派”，杰克不僅失去了他的戰(zhàn)友們，同時也失去了自身的超能力。軍隊放棄了再也沒有利用價值的杰克，后者則過上了夢寐以求的正常人的生活。二十多年后的今天，當(dāng)“激進(jìn)派”分子再一次蠢蠢欲動的時候，軍隊再度的找到了杰克，這一回，他將扮演一個十分特殊和重要的角色。