本片是根據真實的戰爭改編而成，西元1993年一組受過專業訓練近百人的美軍突擊隊，在非洲執行一項暗殺任務時，因誤判情報，被敵軍擊落迫降至索馬利亞。在雙方人數和火力相差50倍的緊張情勢下，數量不到百人的美軍突擊隊必須對抗5000名以上索馬利亞武裝恐怖份子的猛烈攻擊，堆積如山的彈殼灑落在索馬利亞首都摩加迪休的戰場上，可見得當時戰況的慘烈。 這場戰爭正是因為軍方得知錯誤情報才誤判情勢，不但導致18名的美軍犧牲，任務也宣告失敗。在美國攻打阿富汗之際，本片具有歷史上的反省意義。
一位科技業的億萬富翁假裝自己死亡，再從各國招募間諜組成一支小隊，準備挑戰大膽的血腥任務，扳倒一個殘酷的獨裁者。 來自世界各地的六人，個個都是各自領域的佼佼者。他們之所以被選中，不單是因為能力出眾，還在於其獨特的志向：他們想抹殺自己的過去以改變未來。一位神秘的領袖（Ryan Reynolds 飾）將他們召集到一起組成了這個團隊，他畢生唯一的使命就是確保即使他和自己的同伴會被遺忘，但也要讓人們永遠銘記他們所做的一切。 這部電影的製作成本高達1.5億美元，幾乎與《愛爾蘭人》不相上下，作為一部真正主打動作場面的電影，這一體量也幾乎與如今好萊塢最知名的A級動作系列「速度與激情」或者「007」類似，不過在導演邁克爾·貝（Michael Bay）強烈的風格加持下，這部A級成本的電影活生生被打造了一部復古的好萊塢B級片。被影迷們戲稱為了「爆炸貝」的邁克爾·貝終於掙脫了「變形金剛系列」的桎梏之後，帶著「死侍」瑞恩·雷諾茲一道，拿著Netflix上億的經費開始放飛自我。在如今A級製作的動作類型片已經日趨流水線化的當下，《鬼影特攻：以暴制暴》可以說難得的展現出了一種別具一格的導演個人風格，邁克爾·貝幾乎將自己最擅長的追車和爆炸橋段拍到了極致。
A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and begins to further interfere with his job and love life, eventually helping him with a case he's on.
John, is sent in to recover a stolen Stealth Bomber. His trusty sidekick Rojar and John's ever faithful Jessica, fight the rebel forces of Banansistan, led by the vivacious Ellianna.
A young, determined sheriff and his posse chase a gang of murderous train robbers, and a kidnapped woman into New Mexico.
A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.
A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he is the legendary Colonel Desmond. It seems they're wrong; but Johnny's show comes to Coppertown and Johnny romances lovely gambler Lisa Roselle, whom the miners believe is at the center of their troubles.
Two incompetent Western outlaws engineer several failed crimes, including a botched stagecoach holdup. Fred Williamson, a tough-guy perennial in blaxploitation movies, does a rare comedy turn as a blundering patsy to Richard Pryor's slick con man.
A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families.
Bill Ralston arrives in town planning to settle down but quickly gets caught up in the fight between the townspeople and Poe Daggett and his gang. He takes the job of town Marshal and soon brings law and order. When Daggetts men ambush him he kills Poe's brother. Poe then kills Bill's friend Brant and this leads to the showdown.
In a small western town our hero Durango delivers his prisoner to the jailhouse and then goes to the local saloon where the lady saloon owner Joanne has eyes only for him. But Durango only has eyes for his bride-to-be Lucy. Four masked men attack Lucy's father's farm and steal Lucy's dowry. They kill Lucy and her parents after the father strips the face mask from one of the bandits. A pocket watch is stripped from one of the bandits by Lucy's father and this is the only clue that Durango will have to revenge his love... With Joanne's help can Durango avenge himself?
A pair of outlaws are on the hunt for some loot they know is missing from a robbery. Outsmarting and killing anyone who tries to foil their plans.
A former gunslinger comes to the aid of ranchers battling a murderous land baron.
A man searching for a stolen army payroll is joined by several men after the reward money. One of the pursuers, after killing a ranch foreman, elopes with the ranchers' daughter. Enraged at the shooting of his foreman and convinced that his daughter was kidnapped, the rancher leads a posse after his daughter. When Apaches attack the thieves and their pursuers, the rancher's posse is forced to side with his daughter's new husband and his friends.