Maxx is a legionnaire turned mercenary. When a mission in South America goes wrong Maxx is left for dead, but he is nursed back to health and reborn with a new outlook on life. He tries to live tranquilly within the confines of his new beliefs surrounded by his new friends at a church. But his peaceful days are short-lived when mercenaries he used to work with cross his path again and he is forced to revisit and face his own demons. His brutal past, war and violence have come looking for him again. His path to redemption is interrupted and Maxx becomes an avenging warrior using the skills that were his trade
退伍特种兵冷军，在一次执行海外某地维和任务时押送物资的途中，遭遇埋伏，为营救一名当地儿童而失明，回国退伍后准备重新开始新的生活，因眼盲脾气变得越发易怒，导致家庭关系紧张，随之妻子担心长此以往影响女儿成长，无奈只得带女儿离开了家。女儿好友的爸爸是个离异的大款，为了追求冷军的妻子，打算给两家的女儿共同举办生日派对，派对上两个女儿却被早已谋划好的悍匪绑架，以此勒索大款交付赎金。此时作为特种兵的冷军为了女儿和信念，重振自我从新走上了“战场”。
本片改编自二十年前的经典青春励志喜剧《春光灿烂猪八戒》，讲述了一个只想无忧无虑过舒服日子的懒惰小猪，意外获得做人的机会，被太白金星告知自己是八世轮回的猪八戒，而后卷入了猫妖与小龙女寻找金丹的旅途中，体会到了做人的苦与乐，更明白了做人的责任与担当，收获了与小龙女的爱情，最后，猪八戒击败了猫妖，拯救了春水镇无辜的人们。
