巫师梅林（尼科尔·威廉森 Nicol Williamson 饰）赐予了亚瑟王（尼吉尔·特瑞 Nigel Terry 饰）一把充满了魔力的神剑，在临终之前，亚瑟王将这把神剑插入了巨石之中，他立下遗嘱，若是有谁能够将神剑从石头中拔出，便可以获得成为英国国王的资格。 一晃眼数年过去，亚瑟王的私生子站在了巨石面前，顺理成章的拔出了神剑继承了王位，成为了新一代的亚瑟王。之后，他迎娶了名为昆妮弗（切瑞·朗西 Cherie Lunghi 饰）的女子为妻，并且创立了圆桌骑士组织，开创了历史上最辉煌的时代。然而 好景不长，昆妮弗爱上了圆桌骑士兰斯洛特（尼古拉斯·克莱 Nicholas Clay 饰），与此同时，家族中爆发的丑闻领国王的统治岌岌可危。
张小旭在即将高考时被奶奶送进了一所私立高中，受到了同班级王兵和富二代刘浩的排斥，还遇到了改变他命运的校花赵颜颜。张小旭为了保护赵颜颜误伤鸡哥，被判入狱7年。出狱后的张小旭在按摩店与赵颜颜再次相遇，而赵颜颜成了一名按摩女，张小旭得知赵颜颜毕业后没有考上梦想的大学，后来与无所事事的杜鹏结婚并生下一女 ，事业风生水起的张小旭本想可以照顾赵颜颜一辈子却发现……
国际大都会香港，残忍冷酷的当纳卡（基努·李维斯 Keanu Reeves 饰）暗中组织地下黑拳，只手遮天。香港反黑组派出卧底潜入其中，然当督察孙靖诗（莫文蔚 饰）率队冲入现场时，却发现卧底早已被当纳卡无情杀害。在此之后，当纳卡四处网罗卓越出众的格斗高手。恰在此时，全国武术锦标赛隆重召开，出自灵空太极门的陈林虎（陈虎 饰）轻松击败夺冠热门，名震全场，也由此引起当纳卡的注意。接受到邀请的林虎赶赴香港，虽然认为用太极赚钱有辱师门，但为了改变师父所在的“灵空观”被拆除的命运和家人的生活现状，他还是选择成为当纳卡旗下的一名选手。 在此过程中，誓不言败的绢秀注意到林虎的行踪，一切朝着不可预测的方向发展……
Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career. Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.) As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played. The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument). Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.
