The plot of the film takes place on the earth at the end of the 21st century, when there were two countries, the "colonies" and the "Commonwealth". The only way to reach the two places is through the "ladder" through the center of the earth. The colony's "rebels" and the British Commonwealth's "federal forces" are in conflict with each other in order to compete for rare land resources on the earth. Douglas Quaid (played by Colin Farrell) is a worker in a robot factory. Even though he already has the beautiful Lori (played by Kate Beckinsale) as his wife, he still needs to rely on those boundless His imagination is transformed into a real memory to cover up his uninteresting and frustrating life. He always fantasizes about himself as a super spy and can easily get everything he dreams of.
But in the process of a memory conversion, due to a terrible error in the program, Douglas suddenly became a hunted prey. Realizing that he had to escape the siege and interception of the police controlled and controlled by the commander Willers Cohagen (Brian Cranston), Douglas found that no one around him was trustworthy, except that he was very rebellious. The spiritual female warrior Melina (Jessica Bell), she works for Mattia (Bill Nye), the leader of a secret underground resistance organization. With the blurring of the dividing line between reality and dreams, Douglas is at a critical juncture where his life is hanging by a thread. He not only knows his true identity, but also the person he really loves and what he has to face. destiny. It turned out that before that, he had been living among lies made up of memories. In the end, Quaid blew up the ladder to prevent the Prime Minister's conspiracy before the Commonwealth Robocop attacked the colony.