1958年12月，古巴，職業(yè)睹徒杰克前往古巴的首都哈瓦娜，參加一場(chǎng)大型撲克牌賽，期望藉此大揮一筆。他在當(dāng)?shù)劐忮肆艘幻利惖囊鸦榕恿_貝塔，她的丈夫是當(dāng)?shù)氐墓伯a(chǎn)黨革命領(lǐng)袖，兩人情不自禁的墜入了情網(wǎng)。此時(shí)，羅貝塔的丈夫遭軍隊(duì)殺害，她也被政府逮捕烤問，杰克試著將她救出，但是他卻無法阻止羅貝塔對(duì)革命的狂熱支持…

　　The moon rises at a predestined angle and awakens the sleeping Dr. Phibes in 1928, three years after the events of the previous movie. To his dismay, he finds that his house has been demolished and his papyrus scrolls stolen, the scrolls he needs to find the Pharaoh's Tomb in Egypt, where the River of Life flows. After identifying the source of the papyrus theft, he packs and leaves for Egypt with his assistant Vulnavia - whose face displays no effects from the acid shower she received at the end of the previous film (although the character is now played by a different actress, Valli Kemp). His primary goal is the awakening of his dead wife, Victoria.
　　The thieves of Phibes' scrolls suffer an attrition problem as Inspectors Trout and Waverly chase Phibes across the world. The party is led by Beiderbeck (Robert Quarry, best known for playing Count Yorga). Although he looks young, he is several hundred years old and wants to find the River of Life in order to stay alive and be with his lover Diana (Fiona Lewis) forever. This time Phibes' murders all have an Egyptian theme to them; for example, one character is sand-blasted to death. Other deaths include someone being stung to death by scorpions, being eaten by an eagle (in the original script impaled by a gold eagle in the same way a doctor in The Abominable Dr. Phibes was impaled by a golden unicorn), and a golden snake piercing someone's skull.
　　At the climax, Beiderbeck sacrifices his life in order to save Diana. The film ends with Phibes riding a raft down the River of Life with Victoria, while singing "Over the Rainbow" (which is strange, as this film is set in 1928 but "Over The Rainbow" wasn't written until 1938). It is left ambiguous whether Victoria is resurrected or not, although a picture inside the DVD shows her in the raft with her eyes open and smiling at the camera

　　宋世杰（周星馳 飾）是一個(gè)清朝時(shí)期的著名大狀，他出色的口才及能力讓他敢于批評(píng)衙門的大官，也為很多人伸冤。就算他不滿當(dāng)時(shí)官場(chǎng)的腐敗黑暗，但他還是收了不少賄賂，部分還是昧心錢，都報(bào)應(yīng)在了自己的兒子上，十多個(gè)兒子都養(yǎng)不大。妻子（梅艷芳 飾）為了腹中的孩子，斷然要求他就此封筆，不可再做大狀。雖然宋世杰極其不愿意，還是答應(yīng)了妻子的要求。妻子遇到了滿肚冤情的寡婦（吳嘉麗 飾），處于對(duì)女人的同情，她要求丈夫宋世杰為這名寡婦打官司，因此宋世杰又被迫重出江湖。在為寡婦伸冤的過程中，他再次看到了官場(chǎng)的黑暗，還差點(diǎn)抄家、送命……