A reporter traces a lonely widower who wrote a heart-felt message, put it in a bottle, and threw it in the sea.

Officer Dave Brown, a Vietnam veteran and a Rampart Precinct cop with two ex-wives and two daughters, blurs the lines between right and wrong to assert his own idea of justice to the streets of Los Angeles, but when he gets caught on video, Brown is forced to face the consequences of his past sins.

German intelligence agent Gunther Bachmann (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in his final starring role) must race against time to solve a perilous mystery: Is the half-Chechen, half-Russian Muslim who's surfaced in Hamburg a victim seeking refuge, or a terrorist seeking revenge?

In the age of heroes comes the mightiest warrior of them all, Beowulf. After destroying the overpowering demon Grendel, he incurs the undying wrath of the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother, who will use any means possible to ensure revenge. The ensuing epic battle resonate throughout the ages.