克里斯·法拉德（马克·沃尔伯格 Mark Wahlberg 饰）曾是无所不能的走私高手，如今已金盆洗手，与妻子凯特（凯特·贝金赛尔 Kate Beckinsale 饰）和两个儿子过着隐世生活。直到有一天，凯特的弟弟安迪搞砸了一单毒品交易，凶残无情的老板蒂姆·布里格斯（吉奥瓦尼·瑞比西 Giovanni Ribisi 饰）威胁要让他们付出惨痛代价。为了帮安迪还清债款，克里斯只好重出江湖，召集了老搭档塞巴斯蒂安·艾比尼（本·福斯特 Ben Foster 饰）和丹尼·雷默（卢卡斯·哈斯 Lukas Haas 饰），决定前往巴拿马偷运假钞。途中却不巧遇到了克里斯父亲的冤家船长（J·K·西蒙斯 J.K. Simmons 饰），后者更是收了老板的好处要监视克里斯完成任务。而与此同时，在家中的凯特和儿子们也受到了来自杀手的威胁，甚至是艾比尼的冒犯。面对着计划变故，老板紧逼，警察追踪还有家中妻儿的一线安危，克里斯能否生出三头六臂，最终挽救局面呢？ 本片翻拍自2008年冰岛犯罪片《雷克雅未克-鹿特丹》。
Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg) is an ex-smuggler who works installing security alarms and lives a peaceful life with his wife, Kate (Kate Beckinsale), and their two little sons in New Orleans. Chris and Kate learn that her brother Andy (Caleb Landry Jones) was smuggling drugs aboard a cargo ship but during a surprise inspection by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol was forced to drop them overboard. Andy's boss, ruthless mobster Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi), is infuriated and wants Andy to repay him the drugs' worth in money.
Chris intervenes to save Andy. Chris meets Briggs, who tells Chris if Andy doesn't pay $700,000 in two weeks, Briggs will kill Chris' family. Chris decides the only way he can raise that amount of money in two weeks is to run contraband. He joins the crew of a cargo ship which his father Bud (William Lucking), currently in prison, previously used to run contraband. Chris needs to buy $10,000,000 in fake US currency in Panama and smuggle it into the U.S. with the help of Andy and Chris's old friend Danny Raymer (Lukas Haas). While Chris is gone, Briggs and two accomplices break into Chris's house and scare his wife and kids. When one of the kids pushes a thug, he accidentally fires off a round into the wall. Briggs and his two accomplices leave and Chris asks his best friend, Sebastian Abney (Ben Foster), to watch over his family.
In Panama, the Chief Engineer gives Chris extra time by sabotaging the ship's pitch propeller, drawing suspicion from Captain Camp (J. K. Simmons). However, Chris discovers that the bills are useless, not starch-free paper, and refuses to accept them. The only one who can provide them good ones is crime lord Gonzalo (Diego Luna). Meanwhile, Briggs attacks Kate in her house, after which she accepts Sebastian's offer that she and the children move to his apartment. He then calls Andy and threatens to kill one of his nephews if Andy doesn't use the buy money intended for the fake bills to acquire a stash of cocaine. Andy runs off with the buy-money, leading an infuriated Gonzalo to force Chris and Danny to participate in an armored car heist. Chris and Danny are assigned with the job of blocking the armored car, which strikes their van and upends it. The van is shot through holes by the robbers and police. Gonzalo and all but one of his men are killed in a firefight with the police.
The lone survivor gets in an armored pickup with the painting and Chris and Danny jump on board. They make it back to Gonzalo's warehouse, and get into a van loaded with the counterfeit money. Chris also grabs the Jackson Pollock painting from the dying mobster before they escape.
