After an oil refinery in Iraq owned by Chinese firm Unicorp gets attacked by mercenaries led by Owen Paddock (Pilou Asbaek). The refinery is led by Director of Operations Professor Cheng, who invites private security firms to lead a rescue operation for the civilians at the refinery.Ex-special forces soldier "Dragon" Luo Feng (Jackie Chan) leads his private security company in evacuating the civilian employees in a convoy along the Highway of Death to the safety of the Green Zone. Cheng tells Feng that the mercenaries wanted control of the refinery and did not want to destroy it. Cheng shuts down the refinery before leaving with Feng in a rescue convoy. Luo Mei (Ma Chunrui) is Cheng's assistant. Feng answered Cheng's call as Mei is his estranged daughter.Meanwhile, needing money to fix a well in a rural village, former US Marine Chris Van Horne (John Cena) reluctantly joins his mercenary brother Henry (Amadeus Serafini) in attacking the convoy. Henry claims they are tracking down a man responsible for attacking them years earlier, which led to the death of 5 of their comrades. The village is out of water, and Chris needs $100,000 to bribe Unicorp, who control the water supply to the village. Owen is the middleman between Chris and Unicorp, and he paints Unicorp as the main villain to Chris.The mercenaries create a massive sandstorm and use it to cover their attack. After the convoy fends them off and clears the sandstorm, Feng discovers that 2 buses out of 11 have been kidnapped, including Professor Cheng who has the authorization codes to the oil refinery. Feng brings back his helicopters and asks for Mei's help to search for the missing buses. Chris manages to fight off one helicopter and escapes with Cheng into the desert canyons. Feng finds the missing buses and finds that 5 engineers including Cheng have been taken hostage.Chris confronts Henry concerning the kidnapping as he is not convinced that Cheng was responsible for the death of their comrades. Chris wants to know who hired him and Henry. Owen reveals himself as the mastermind. Owen says that he worked for Unicorp for 16 years and got nothing. Now, this is his time to get rich. Owen tells him that he intends to reactivate the refinery and profit off the oil trade. Owen wants Chris to keep Feng away from Cheng, and only then he will pay what he owes Chris and Henry. After an enraged Chris leaves, Owen shoots Henry for failing to kill Feng.Feng tracks down Chris as he travels across the desert in his dune buggy and confronts him. Chris believes that feng shot Henry, while Feng believes that Chris killed his men. Chris and Feng team together to fight off the French, who had supplied weapons to Chris and Henry, and are now contracted by Owen to kill Chris. Feng learns about his intentions in taking the job and helping the children in his village. Chris tells Feng that Owen is behind the kidnapping. After Owen scares Professor Cheng into cooperating, he sends his men to find her bag which contains the codes. Cheng had left her phone in her bag and Owen is tracking the same. The bag was with Mei from the beginning and Mei was with Chris and Feng. Owen's men reach Chris's village for the bag. Chris gives it up to protect the village. Mei tells Chris and Feng that the refinery will deliver millions of barrels of petroleum products to the coast via a network of underground pipelines. This will be the biggest oil heist in history.Chris and Feng return to the refinery, defeat Owen's men and foil his plans. Chris and Feng team up to rescue Cheng and her son from the refinery control room. Owen escapes the refinery with a few trucks full of gasoline. Chris and Feng chase with down with a jet engine truck, which was originally used by Chris to whip up the sandstorm in the desert. Owen is killed in an ensuing car chase. Afterwards Feng and his team arrest the perpetrator behind the oil heist. Van Horne fixes the well and is offered and accepts a new mission with Feng.