大洋深处，一艘俄罗斯潜水艇正在执行常规任务，但是突发意外导致潜艇爆炸，全体机组人员无一幸免。而这个谜一样的事故，还隐藏着一个足以颠覆世界的大秘密。此后不久，特工伊森·亨特（汤姆·克鲁斯TomCruise饰）接到任务，要去寻找两把造型独特的钥匙。钥匙组合在一起后能够控制不断进化并拥有独立思考能力的人工智能，从而可帮助政治家实现称霸世界的野心。不愿被政治家利用的伊森找到好搭档卢瑟·斯蒂克尔（文·瑞姆斯VingRhames饰）、班吉·邓（西蒙·佩吉SimonPegg饰）恩和伊尔莎·浮士德（丽贝卡·弗格森RebeccaFerguson饰），开始试图找到并摧毁钥匙，这也意味着他们将与全世界为敌。而在行动过程中，性感女贼格蕾丝（海莉·阿特维尔HayleyAtwell饰）无意卷入其中，使这场危险游戏变得愈加扑朔迷离……

1. "Nothing but the Truth" (3 January 1995) 　　Successful but over-worked barrister James Kavanagh defends David Armstrong, played by Ewan MacGregor, a Cambridge student of impeccable background who is accused of rape by Eve Kendall, played by Alison Steadman, the wife of his employer. Eve's husband Alan is having an affair and she is lonely, which, at first sight, makes her seem ...

影片根据1971年1月发生的大韩航空F-27劫机未遂事件改编，以全世界客机劫持事件猖獗的20世纪70年代为背景，讲述1971年一架客机在韩国上空被劫持，机组人员与乘客们在极端状况下展开殊死搏斗的故事。

1. "True Commitment" (26 February 1996) 　　Kavanagh finds himself defending a left-leaning protester accused of stabbing a skinhead at a protest march. The accused claims that it was entirely his fault, but when he hears that his upper middle class girlfriend has shopped him to the police, he changes his story saying he was just being chivalrous and that it was his girlfriend who ...