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.
就真的扯淡～自己儿子死了，替他完成未完成成就。问题是他自带主角buff，死的也过于仓促了吧？没被枪林弹雨伤中，被战友当间谍一枪毙命。实在是不知道该说什么，真的荒谬。合着英国特工解救一切？还有这么黑列宁实在～
还不错，感觉比起两部正传，这才更像是马修·沃恩想拍的东西。前者对标却逊于《海扁王》，后者则是对《X战警：第一课》的放飞升级。无外乎是典型的戏说历史，将共济会阴谋论化用在一战语境中，看似不着调，实际提炼简化了政域矛盾，将这场列强洗牌的不义之战解构。英德俄三皇表兄弟的梗，以及妖僧拉斯普廷的刻画都很棒，野史迷都能会心一笑吧。至于辱苏和对大英余晖的迷恋，肯定是有的，但沃恩并不是那种讨人厌的古板遗老，王男系列本质是套着B级壳子的绅士精神输出，符合潮流。他懂得与时俱进，让旧精神在新时代焕发生机，这点很难得。尤其是让家仆成为维护和平的生力军，一定程度是对贵族传统的打破，对比肯尼思·布拉纳简直高下立判。不过搁十年前估计片子不会有太大非议，但放在这个强调敌我的时代，就显得没太有眼力见。
光看预告都想象不出这是部反战片…战场上的那一段仿佛在看低配版1917。英国人真的很喜欢反思一战，就这点上来说比前两部深刻了一点，虽然整体上来说还是white savior trope的基调…这IP可以到此为止了吧
也没那么差，就是还是那些套路而已，这个系列没有必要再拍下去了。
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现实版指环王，带戒指的人不重要，重要的是传给了谁？这样戏谑历史的逻辑，世界重大历史事件都可以做了。 低配版无耻混蛋。但父子戏份铺垫铺垫到战场的戏份就太伤感了，伤感得接下来所有戏份，会有一种历史都是既定事实，纠结什么？大英舔狗大美很多zz明示的“丑陋”不如那段芭蕾舞好看。
太难看了，期待了一年，怎么会写成这么一个前半段无聊后半段陈词滥调的剧本。反派是谁简直一看cast就能猜到，三段式的剧本在第一个小时的打斗之后就泄气，儿子的战场段落更是毫无意义。男主部分时候笨拙部分时候又身手矫健，男配女配都是工具人。反派杀手除了第一个疯子打斗段落很有新意，女杀手30秒就结束了。一星给最后片尾小枝的measure of a man。
我就喜欢跳芭蕾舞的男人！！！4星全是给拉斯普丁哒～
结局那只复仇的“山羊”
胡桃夹子，毛毛腿，Comrade Lenin, 略无聊
走向一种搞笑动作片的范畴了，非常适合贺岁档，尤其是电影业非常不景气的这几年
以及堑壕之间无声压抑的夺尸战。
王牌特工这个系列应该是结束了，自砸招牌，摒弃了系列前两部所有的噱头、优雅，除了那段俄国妖僧宫廷打斗戏以外毫无亮点，更别说篡改历史啥的
历史娱乐片，无论是正面战场还是谍战都太无聊，就是随便拍拍的吧
动作戏不错，斗杀拉斯普丁段落是最大亮点。对这种历史大格局下的恶趣味我还蛮喜欢的。原来不能引进是因为列宁，最后希特勒出场让我对下一部充满期待。
这个系列做到这一部，基本也就到头了吧。这么好的一个新故事，才第三部就垮成这样了。不仅第一部所有的优点都没能延续，而且不尊重历史胡编瞎改侮辱观众智商。一个怎么拦都拦不住的非要死在一线的贵公子，一个暗地里推动欧洲风云却喜欢住在鸟不拉屎的山顶的大人物，还有一个凭一己之力力挽狂澜后建立王牌特工的头发越来越少却依旧很帅的男人，都不如舔腿的俄罗斯妖僧有意思。可见，这部电影是真没什么看点。
马修沃恩确实是时候结束这个系列了，虽然依旧有着很多炫酷点子，奇妙构思让观众时不时拍案叫绝，但王牌特工已经耗费他太多精力以致导演收不住自己的才华
斐迪南大公遇刺这段太儿戏了。太业余了！这两王牌特工太业余了！
我觉得全靠卡斯和演员演技撑起来的。剧本多少有点松散，2小时10分真的太长了。有些讽刺的地方很妙，但这种点太少了。尺度比起前两部来说也不够大。
马修沃恩的各种小脑洞给这部原本较为平庸的前传硬生生的增色一筹，这二战可以期待了
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