在小镇上，一个年轻人游手好闲无所事事，于是他决定去纽约碰碰运气。影片讲述了1925年发生在美国西部牛仔的故事，风格搞笑幽默。A young man who doesn't find a job in his small hometown, tries his luck in New York, but is overwelmed by the life of the city, so decides to try his luck somewhere else after a only a few minutes in New York. He falls off a train near a ranch, where he tries his luck as a cowbowy, being in his own way very sucessful. But he shows what he can do when the farm has to bring a 100 head of cattle to the slaughterhouses of Los Angeles to avoid going bankrupt, against the will of his neighbour who wants a better price. After a shoot-out with the neighbour's men he's the only person on a Los Angeles bound train with 1000 cows....
影片改编自查克·迪克逊所著同名系列小说，主人公莱文·凯德（杰森·斯坦森 Jason Statham 饰）是黑色行动界的传奇人物，他放弃职业从事建筑工作，想过简单的生活，做女儿的好父亲，而当他老板的十几岁女儿珍妮突然消失后，莱文被召回要求重操旧业。在追踪过程中，莱文卷入到 一个邪恶的犯罪阴谋的中心，产生了连锁反应，将威胁到他的新生活方式。
