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　　A group of teenagers in a small town discover a strange object that tests the strength of their friendship.

　　一晃十年过去，地球人和虫族的战争如火如荼，愈演愈烈。某日，空军元帅奥玛•阿诺克（斯蒂芬•霍根 Stephen Hogan 饰）来地球人的远方农场罗库山视察，时任上校的强尼•瑞克（加斯帕•范•迪恩 Casper Van Dien 饰）也一同前来。在此期间，阿诺克的心智被虫王操控，他切断了隔离区的电力，使基地完全失去保护。是夜，虫族对隔离区发动总攻，地球军虽顽强抵抗，终因寡不敌众而告败，基地陷落。阿诺克则和一干心腹逃离，飞船迫降在OM-1行星。　　瑞克因失职被军事法庭判处绞刑，行刑之际被政府秘密部门救下。阿诺克知晓联邦舰队基地所在地的秘密，一旦被虫族得知将不堪设想。因此政府高层要求瑞克带上一队人马，前去营救受困的阿诺克……

　　阿里（福里斯特·惠特克 Forest Whitaker 饰）和母亲是从曾经惨绝人寰的种族屠杀中幸免于难的幸存者，虽然如今的他已然出人头地成为了开普敦警局重案组的负责人，但儿时充满了血腥和恐惧的回忆依然沉淀在他的内心之中，阴影挥之不去。　　布莱恩（奥兰多·布鲁姆 Orlando Bloom 饰）是阿里的下属，他的家族成员曾经是种族隔离活动中的激进分子，不过这并没能够影响到他和阿里之间的信任和友谊。一连串凶杀案的发生和一种新型毒品的出现将城市推到了风口浪尖，直到这时，肩负着巨大压力的阿里才发现，那些他以为已经成为过去的事情，其实并没有真正的过去，也永远都不会过去。

　　The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...