描述一群恐布份子入侵一所全美最烂的私立高中，发现该校学生竟都有显赫的家世背景，遂决定将他们挟为人质，与美国政府谈判。最后在一群平日最调皮的学生运用机智与自然科学天才，击退歹徒。

When a blue-collar surfer avenges his brother's murder, he discovers he killed the wrong man by mistake and joins the Marines to escape his past, only to face it at gunpoint in a distant desert, where he must survive a captor bent on revenge.

New York detective Mike Santini is enjoying a holiday with his family when he spots Eddie Meyers a fugitive from justice who might be the key witness in a high profile case involving money laundering. Santini plays a major role in capturing Meyers which prompts the wiley criminal to request Santini to be the interrogating officer. The two size each other up in the interrogation room in a thriller that provides a number of unexpected twists.