女娲诸神启动“封神计划”颠覆商朝统治，安排了九尾妖狐上身美人妲己前来惑主。纣王帝辛不服神旨逆天而行，建摘星楼登天问道与神博弈。在煎熬的斗争过程中，纣王日渐倾心妲己专宠无度，并受申公豹挑唆残害忠良，比干挖心也难谏忠言。纷乱之中，百姓苦不堪言，姜子牙助四方诸侯剑指朝歌，纣王携狐妖妲己共抗天命。一场横跨人、神、妖三界的战争史诗拉开序幕……

In his bold, poetic approach, Clu Gulager manages to pack a decade's worth of experimentation into a fast, economical 20 minutes. Images dissolve and bleed into one another, freeze-frame and turn into paintings. Gulager also utilizes different camera speeds and even (and this is something I haven't seen before) the grain of the film to achieve his effects. Laszlo Kovacs' sun bleached photography helps immeasurably in streamlining such techniques into a powerfully eccentric, disturbingly compelling narrative. Far from pretentious (the word I'd use to describe most "experimental" films from the late sixties), this film comes off both as a celebration of childhood innocence and an uncompromising examination of its darkest extremes. And furthermore, Gulager and Kovacs achieve what may be the most unsettling final freeze frame ever.

警官黄伟（梁家辉 饰）被借调调查一件涉及警员犯罪的案子，为搜集证据，黄伟犯险入狱。火烧岛典狱长（柯俊雄 饰）治下的监狱充斥着暴力、不公，以及制度化的犯人殴斗。黄伟很快在狱中结识了室友小朱（庹宗华 饰）和因思念儿子多次越狱的刘世杰（洪金宝 饰），并经历了帮派人物大林（高捷 饰）的入狱洗礼。台球选手大锤（成龙 饰）因误杀帮派大哥钢珠（刘德华 饰）之弟入狱，大林受命向大锤复仇，此事被狱中大哥桂老大（王羽 饰）调解。黄伟、大锤等四人被典狱长吸收进入“清风队”，在执行暗杀任务的过程中，黄伟意外的发现了自己追查多时的幕后真凶。

本作は正体不明の3人組ミュージシャン“テクノブラザーズ”が、レコード会社への売り込みのため、冷酷なマネージャーとともに東京へ向かうロードムービー。