本片根据古龙名着改编，是楚原导演又一力作。天下第一剑客燕南天(王戎饰)手抱婴儿到恶人谷找江琴为义弟江枫报仇，怎知误入恶人圈套，不省人事。婴儿自小在恶人谷长大，取名小鱼儿(傅声饰)。小鱼儿从神医万春流口中得悉自己身世，出谷往找江琴报仇！途中邂逅铁心兰(文雪儿饰)，除得一纸藏宝图外，更屡被移花宫弟子花无缺(伍卫国饰)追杀。原来花与鱼根本是一对双生儿，移花宫主因不满他们父亲江枫移情，遂与改名江别鹤的江琴(唐菁饰)设局令兄弟相残！阴谋败露，花鱼联手，终将江及宫主刺毙。 这是一个关于宝藏和孪生兄弟被人利用相互廝杀的故事，被认为是楚原执导得最佳影片之一，傅声的出演更是让影片变得独具特色，他在片中饰演的那位最终找出自己父母死亡真相的功夫少年的形象，给观众留下了深刻印象。可惜傅声在29岁时因车祸英年早逝，实在令人惋惜。
1997年，和战争几乎摧毁了旧世界的一切，天灾人祸，世道离乱，幸存者艰难求生，文明沦落，这是一个弱肉强食的残酷世界。少年（Munro Chambers 饰）居住在隐蔽的所在，他经常出没在废墟间，依他称之为“寻宝”的方式寻找有用的物品，然后换取食物以及他最喜欢的漫画书《极爆战士》。在此期间，古灵精怪的女孩“苹果”爱普尔（Laurence Leboeuf 饰）自顾自闯入少年的领地，虽然起初颇有些不情愿，不过少年慢慢接受了这个新伙伴。当他们的关系终于更进一步的时候，女孩突然被某个邪恶组织抓走，被迫要参加血腥残酷的角斗大赛。 为了救回爱普尔，少年化身他最崇拜的漫画英雄极爆战士冲入对方的领地……
Erstwhile Special Forces operative Doc Alexander is asked to broker a truce with the Mexican drug cartel in secrecy. When Oklahoma Governor Richard Jeffs celebrates the execution of a high-ranking cartel member on TV, his Chief of Staff and Doc inform him about the peace he just ended. But it’s too late, as Cuco, the cartel’s hatchet man, has set his vengeful sights on Doc’s daughter Dixie. They don’t make ’em like Little Dixie anymore: honed to the bone, all gestures and actions, only a few words. Too many genre films these days try to create meaning by piling ideas and intentions on their narrative frames. John Swab, as always, works the other way around. Meaning and depth come from taking away whatever is superfluous – by reducing the plot to its bare essence and the characters to their core trades and tricks. Ultimately, Little Dixie feels like the pulp fiction version of a Giacometti sculpture, all fearful symmetries and mirror images. A gem of crime cinema at its purest and most philosophical, proudly featuring noir’s new darling, Frank Grillo.
