Kriminelle halten sich nicht an Regeln - manche Cops auch nicht.
Der hartgesottene Undercover-Cop John Hebron (Cuba Gooding Jr.) kämpft mit seiner Vergangenheit. Seine Frau und seine Tochter wurden bei einem Einbruch brutal ermordet, als er nicht zuhause war. Voller Selbsthass, weil er seine Familie nicht retten konnte, sucht er Rat bei seinem Freund und Priester Father Porter (Christian Slater)...

Sergeant Nathan West is a propagator of a harsh military training programme that appears to have pushed a group of young recruits too far, when an exercise winds up with them attempting to kill each other. Only two soldiers emerge alive from the slaughter, and West isn't among them. Rogue DEA agent Tom Hardy is called in to question the survivors, teaming up with Lieutenant Julia Osbourne, in an attempt to solve the puzzle...

After a body is found in the walls of a French monastery, Commissioner Niemans, once again teams up with his old partner, Detective Reda, who was already investigating his own murder. As with the first movie, the pair's investigations intertwine and soon they are looking at a giant conspiracy involving a group of monks on steroids lead by Heinrich von Garten.

Anna is losing her memory. It started the day she failed to recognize her husband, Laurent. Then at a dinner party, faces suddenly morph into death masks. Elsewhere in Paris, Captain Nerteaux is trying to catch a serial killer. The three female victims, all Turkish illegals, were tortured and mutilated. Out of desperation, Nerteaux turns to "Shifty" Schiffer for help...

The story of Jacques Mesrine, France's public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in Paris.