迪恩(威尔 史密斯 Will Smith 饰)是一个家庭生活和美、前途一片光明的黑人执业律师。圣诞节前夕,迪恩遇到了一位久未谋面的朋友。从此,迪恩的生活发生了天翻地覆的变化。 原来这位友人将一张记录了某个位高权重的人谋杀国会议员整个过程的光盘放进了迪恩的袋子!可怜的迪恩在毫不知情的情况下,被NSA中的害群之马严密监视,并被施加了各种各样的压力,甚至无端遭到了谋杀前女友雷切尔的起诉。 迪恩迫于无奈之下,只得只身展开了逃亡、追查幕后真凶之路。Robert dean is a mild-mannered lawyer who works in Washington D.C. He is on the trail of a kingpin named Pintero. Meanwhile, a politician named Thomas Reynolds is negotiating with Congressman Phillip Hammersley about a new surveillance system with satellites. But, Hammersley declines, that is when Reynolds had Hammersley killed, but this murder was caught on tape, and this person was being chased by Reynolds' team of NSA agents, the guy must ditch the tape, so he plants it on Dean (unbeknownst to Dean). Then, the NSA decides to get into Dean's life. That is when Dean's life began to fall apart all around him, with his wife and job both gone. Dean wants to find out what is going on. Then, he meets a man named "Brill" who tells him that Dean has something that the government wants. That is when Dean and Brill formulate a plan to get Dean's life back and turn the Tables on Reynolds.