20年前,社会主义国家南斯拉夫解体,奉行主义的更迭并未改变东欧这片多灾多难土地的命运。战火持续,人民罹难。时至今日,硝烟仍未从这里散去。卡萝尔(祖儿·费利克斯 Zoé Félix 饰)、马提亚(埃瑞克·萨文 Eric Savin 饰)、萨米尔(Arié Elmaleh 饰)是来自法国的救援小组成员。在完成任务后,他们驱车返回祖国。然而必经之路上有士兵把守,为了不浪费时间,萨米尔建议抄小路前进。这一决定将他们引入一条黑暗之途,行至半路,三人被一群全副武装的不明身份者绑架。在此后的数日内,他们全被关在不见天日的笼子里。
对于对方的动机卡萝尔他们全然不知,只有无尽的恐惧伴随左右,而死神的脚步也在慢慢逼近……。长安战乱,国之将亡。花萝芃芃疆场偶遇苍云燕麟,二人在疆场苍凉之余,为乱世贡献着属于自己的力量,只是天地不仁,长安城破,他们又该何去何从……。This very Kafka-esque film is Keaton's response to the Fatty Arbuckle scandal.[citation needed] Even though the central character's intentions are good, he cannot win, no matter how inventively he tries. He gets into various scraps with police officers throughout the film. Eventually, he unwittingly throws a bomb into a police parade and ends up being chased by a horde of cops.
At the end of the film, Keaton's character locks up the cops in the police station. However, the girl he is trying to woo disapproves of his behavior and gives him the cold shoulder. Therefore, he unlocks the police station and is immediately pulled in by the cops. The film ends with the title "The End" written on a tombstone with Keaton's pork pie hat propped on it.
One of Keaton's most iconic and brilliantly-constructed short films, Cops was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry in 1997.。