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.
看到最后我总感觉这个情节似曾相识，但是又想不出来
神经病 陈思诚让这个片子变得不幸 萤火虫是什么好东西啊我的天呐 给你用的 中国人说中国话！
最后这个结局没有任何美感，人性希望的破灭，没有奇迹临幸，只有死才能换回本应得到的尊严。
警察局长敢扇市zf秘书长嘴巴子，孤儿寡母欠下200万高利贷，在两天之内必须还清的情况下，俩月之后还能大摇大摆办葬礼，还有钱买墓地，这社会治安呱呱叫了。
很熟练的电影，票房口碑就看各大营销号怎么带节奏了。
剧情太老套了，连台词都很老套。
逻辑混乱，人物塑造也失败，用来杀事件还可以。
精神get到了，故事讲得好像蹩脚，台词也有点尬。。所以“误杀”了谁？
很不错的看片体验 把人与人之间微妙的关系非常形象的展现了出来，看这种片就是需要这种快感，
虽然不是特别喜欢肖央，但是他的演技是还是很可以的。悬疑没搞起来，反对强权也是浅尝则止，但总的来说也不是特别难看吧。
改编自美国电影《迫在眉梢》。
最后林日朗给儿子写的那封信里有句话我很喜欢“每个人都会死的。死并不可怕 ，可怕的是没有尝试为自己的生命而奋斗”
中肯点来说，本片和烂片还是有区别的，烂片拍出来是浪费资源，起码本片有想要呈现的核心表达，也有想要讽刺的社会议题，但却用了一个自以为精心布局，却显得拙劣稚嫩甚至笨拙的故事去呈现，就是这部电影拍不拍都没什么必要。主创团队以为观众有这样的需求，但很可惜没有。肖央的角色贯彻了“一生要强的爸爸”，还真不如好好改编原作《误杀瞒天记》的续集《较量》，用回原版人马，或许观众好感度会相对好一些。
强行煽情……不过作为一个小人物很能感受剧中小人物的生活不易……
得亏是遇到黑幕了，不然借的高利贷都能让你全家万劫不复…
这水平公映前还能吹上天？？？不如第一部，反转和煽情都刻意，除了李治廷稍微有点坏，还几乎个个都超好人，看不下去……
全是上一部的成功套路，但是节奏不太好，为了剧情多翻几番牺牲了挺多东西。每个人物都是出场即巅峰，做完他这个人物需要为剧情做的推动后，就开始莫名其妙。工具人不是不可以写，随便写。但是工具人推动完剧情之后，基本都没能继续合理地继续到后续的剧情逻辑里面。
编剧都不敢这么写？那不好意思，这电影男主角就是个编剧。被之前的宣传卖点“全新剧本”吸引，既然剥离了原著的故事，就不再是“瞒天误杀记”，何必要延续这个名字呢？说回电影本身，因为故事架空在国外比较好过审，看的过程中很容易带入到恐怖直播+率性而活版本的杀破狼2剧情，起底器官贩卖利益链，一个普通老百姓无疑是无法撼动的，男主利用公众舆论和自己一心求死最终赢得双赢，在现实中这概率是极低的。所以，我宁愿相信最后的彩蛋才是真相
居然和误杀第一部有联动。明星阵容不错，肖央的演技越来越强了
太低龄了，低龄到我觉得应该标记个“满15岁的观众禁止观看”的警告。
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