While surveying a telegraph line in 1861, Western Union engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger) is severely injured in an accident. He is discovered by Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), an outlaw on the run from a posse. Forced to travel on foot after his horse was hurt, Shaw at first considers stealing Creighton's horse, but changes his mind and takes the man with him, saving his life.
Sometime later, following his recovery, Creighton returns to Omaha, Nebraska and plans the construction of a telegraph line from Omaha to Salt Lake City, Utah. Facing considerable opposition to the line from Confederate soldiers, Indians, and outlaws, Creighton elicits the help of his sister Sue (Virginia Gilmore), foreman Pat Grogan (Minor Watson), and assistant Homer Kettle (Chill Wills).
Looking to put his outlaw past behind him, Shaw arrives at Creighton's Western Union office looking for honest work and is hired as a scout by Grogan who is unaware of his past. Creighton recognizes him among the men and allows him to stay despite his suspicions. Creighton also hires tenderfoot Richard Blake (Robert Young), a Harvard-educated engineer as a favor to Blake's father. Shaw and Blake are both attracted to Sue and vie for her attention, but their romantic rivalry is cut short when construction of the telegraph line starts on July 4, 1861.
After work commences on the line, one of the men is killed apparently by a mysterious band of cattle-rustling Indians. Unconvinced that Indians are to blame, Shaw rides out to investigate and follows the rustlers' trail to the camp of Jack Slade, a former friend and cohort, whose gang committed the killing disguised as Indians—the gang Shaw left following his last bank robbery. Slade reveals that they are working for the Confederacy to disrupt Western Union because they believe the telegraph service will help the Union. Shaw rides away and returns to the line. Not wanting to turn in his former friends, Shaw tells Creighton that a large band of Dakota Indians stole the cattle, and recommends that they simply replace the herd and not risk a fight with the Indians.
Sometime later, a confrontation takes place between men working on the forward line and a band of drunken Indians. When one of the Indians tries to steal some equipment, a nervous Blake shoots him, ignoring Shaw's order to remain calm. After word arrives that the main camp is under attack by other Indians, the Western Union men rush back to help with the defense. At the main camp, Slade's men, who are again disguised as Indians, steal the Western Union horses. The company discover the ruse when one of the wounded Indians turns out to be a white man. Forced to buy back their stolen horses from Slade, Creighton becomes suspicious of Shaw's involvement, especially when he admits to knowing the gang.
Soon the U.S. Army arrives and announces the Indians have now refused to allow the telegraph lines to go through their territory in response to Blake's shooting of the drunken Indian. Creighton, Shaw, and Blake ride out to convince Chief Spotted Horse to allow them to build the line through Indian territory, even though the man Blake wounded was Spotted Horse's son. Creighton is finally able to persuade the Indians to allow them passage, and work continues until the company approaches Salt Lake City.
Sometime later, Shaw receives word that Jack Slade wants to meet with him. On the way to see Slade, Shaw is captured and bound by Slade's men. Slade says his group is going to burn down the Western Union camp and they don't want Shaw to interfere. After Slade and his men ride off, Shaw escapes from his ropes but arrives back too late to prevent the fire. He helps rescue some of the Western Union men from the flames and burns his hands in the process.
After the fire, Creighton confronts Shaw for an explanation, but Shaw does not reveal what he knows and is fired by Creighton. As Shaw leaves the camp, he tells Blake that Slade is actually Shaw's brother and that he, Shaw, will find Slade's gang and stop them from interfering with the telegraph project. Shaw rides off and finds Slade and his men in a nearby town. At the barber shop, Shaw confronts his brother, whose gun is concealed under the barber's sheet. Slade shoots Shaw through the sheet. Shaw fights back in spite of his wound, killing some of the gang members, and then dies. Blake arrives and continues the fight with Slade who dies from his wounds. Soon after, the Western Union line is completed and the workers celebrate. When Sue laments the absence of Shaw, Creighton tells her that Shaw can hear them.
前面的动作戏还是很有战术素养的，但后半部就太假了。一敌五十，神一样的存在。
有时候拯救一个生命 远远比夺走一个人的生命要更难 这电影拍一镜到底 晃得人头疼 有什么意义
名字就叫one shot，一镜到底的噱头貌似也没啥用，剧情比较平庸，动作戏还可以。
一部动作片为了所谓的一镜到底，
简单粗暴的爽片，一镜到底其实没啥必要，晃得头晕
老斯一如既往的低成本，枪战居多，打斗部分太短看的不太过瘾，本片仅花了20天完成拍摄
没什么太大毛病，也没什么高大上的设定，最扯的就是给美国人打着反恐口号找了个原因:维护美利坚国内安全。
电影后三分之一都是男主角个人秀，结尾草草了事，正如开局
3.依然磕拉了
一镜到底的爆米花，还算合格的爆米花吧，有点儿游戏有点儿晕。
一向觉得无论那种摄影方式和技巧，都是服务于故事本身，一旦重点聚焦于一镜到底的动作片如何厉害，那可想而知，作品的故事本身是如何的不咋样，何况动作戏也挺拉跨的。
正经说一句，这剧本扩展开，着重放在背景讲述上，拍成迷你剧绝对很棒。
作为小成本枪战动作片，质量还是可以的，虽然剧情弱一点，全片都是在一个关押恐怖分子的小基地里进行，也没有大规模的枪战场面，不过前期有一定的真实感，也还是有可看度的。个人觉得影片质量给3星6.8分到4星7.2分都可以，我愿意按照高一点给，我给4星7.2分！
除了一些逻辑问题比如水中的城市如何维持电力等，其他方面感觉还可以，故事本身和讲述都很有吸引力。类似《银翼杀手》的复古未来风格，休-杰克曼很绅士，扑克牌和水箱都联想到《致命魔术》。台词写得也很棒啊， If there are ghosts to be found, it's us who haunt the past.
完美的小成本动作电影。导演和编剧很清楚自己要干什么：拍摄小成本动作电影，所以没有故事，没有剧情，没有逻辑，没有煽情，也没有主旋律说教，把所有关于国家和反恐的对话都降到了最低。从头打到尾。一镜到底的摄影浑然天成，紧张的配乐恰到好处。问题是这是一部英国电影，拍的却是美国911以后的反恐事业。女主非常的漂亮，动作片里尤其需要漂亮的女演员，因为动作片里人物出生入死，枪林弹雨，很多人都牺牲了，如果他们死前眼前没有漂亮的女性角色，他们死不瞑目啊。这太男性凝视了。这就是为什么这样的动作片只有一个女主，而她身处男人的包围中。
堪称美帝反恐版“战狼”，一镜到底看的还是很爽很有代入感的，动作戏和枪战的真实还原度都非常高，让我想到了小时候玩的CS。
毫无技巧的长镜头，毫无新意的剧情，毫不激烈的枪战，点到为止的近战……
劫匪应该是来灭口的吧，所以不管他是否已经招供，劫匪都不应吝惜一颗子弹：一击，毙他的命。
打得干净利落，一镜到底的拍法也让人有点身临其境的感觉
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