Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
中等偏上水平陈木胜，《冲锋车怒火街头》《新警察故事》《危城》一锅乱炖，冗长的文戏到处都是这集我看过，难看得令人发指，这还是那个喜欢写段子的陈木胜嘛！创作母题还是幼稚大男孩儿成长：被贬损的英雄和愚蠢的上司，经过某些事件英雄被认可，上司“法外开恩”促成英雄体制外蜕变。指意不明的香港意识，我更愿意相信是大男孩潜移默化的不自觉。商场用的是新警察故事，猪笼城寨动作戏又来了一遍追龙，太子屠杀玩的是泰国功夫，追车戏和最终决战值得多看两眼。
7.0 / 和拆弹 2 有太多相似点，但也看得出陈木胜无意邱礼涛那种春秋笔法，同样「警队背信弃义，用完即弃」的故事，放在这部就是一个纠结于警队内部小恩怨乃至有点架空的故事。因此谢霆锋的「怒火」跟隔壁青蛇的「执念」一样就是个悬浮的口号，甄子丹的「怒火」更无从谈起。唯一值得玩味的是双雄的名字，「崇邦」（崇的是什么邦？）和「刚敖」（谐音港澳？）一出，你就能知道他们两人的身份绝不可能对调。好在，这部的动作戏确实是近几年最佳，拳拳到肉足够生猛，难民营和结尾教堂的打戏都可圈可点。以及，谢霆锋是少有演邪魅类反派而不显油腻的人，这部确实是他自七年前《救火英雄》后的回春之作了。
精良的作画，绚烂的特效，让人回味的背景音乐🎶，以及大篇幅华丽的打斗场面，还有细腻的人物感情，我想说很好看。
航班取消，跑来看场首映。“崇邦”和“刚敖”，两个名字，一种对立。主题仍是港片永恒的主题。最值得看的是谢霆锋和动作戏，小谢的帅和疯魔，非常贴合角色。回忆段落中，他一笑，我如沐春风！这家伙根本不会老啊！
太特么好看了，谢霆锋太特么帅了，一开始我以为他是在向小丑致敬，看到最后发现是剪刀手爱德华～打斗场面看到了《杀破狼》的影子，最后谢霆锋的死很悲壮，果然仇恨才是第一生产力…致敬陈木胜！
上一次武戏看到这么令人害怕的角色还是杀破狼的吴京。可能是香港武打片的终结了吧，在这个香港已经仿佛架空背景的时日。
废旧商场的火拼、紧张刺激的追车、火力十足的街头枪战、近身肉搏的对决，等等，堪称十年来港片之最“劲爆”。与《拆弹专家2》“撞桥”正常。警察蜕变为恐怖分子，我不觉得是隐喻，其实，在警校生不包”分配“的某个阶段，国内某省的几个大案是警校毕业生做的。
香港警匪片一直在强调一种特区派和原港派之间分裂又团结的局面 从《寒战》等电影都没放弃这种团结的可能性 但现在红黑各走其路 团结已经不再可能 但黑派所采取的暴力激进措施亦不可取 所以最后是演化为恐怖分子 包围钟楼顶替代性的自由女神像 然而结局必然是一并倒塌 甄子丹不回头 红方会坚定的走下去 再无旧情和团结可言了
动作设计真的非常优秀，几场追车戏也很精彩。剩下的吗，呵呵😄
逻辑还成，虽然不明白最后甄子丹的演讲是怎么把大佬说服的；技战术稍微有些问题，如果霆锋的几个对手打手枪时不傻傻地把枪直伸出去给他夺（那么近不用伸枪瞄准，屈臂贴身射击即可），霆锋已经不知道死多少回了；但好久没有看过打得这么卖力的港片了，不给四星良心会痛。
#电影院#“永远怀念在天国的陈木胜导演” 多年后又被谢霆锋疯批美强惨的范儿恶狠狠地帅到了！巷道里扔手榴弹的画面吊炸天可以重复无数次。真希望有人去炸了他的厨房把他绑回来好好拍戏。“如果那天是你去抓可乐，是不是命运就不一样了？”一枚硬币的两面，发人深思
节奏控制得真好，故事线很清晰，动作戏真的太精彩了。没有一场戏是废戏，除了剧情上有些落入俗套，没有太多出彩的地方，但是光线造型很出彩，尤其是教堂里的打戏部分。
😭😭SAO篇永远是最好看的
这大概是我第一次看一个反派的死看得泪流满面
电影中的正派不伦不类，托不住反派，输得一败涂地，怨不得大家都站反派，是你自己不争气。
AMC IMAX看到SAO还要什么剧情，战斗炫酷爽就得了。虽说不要剧情，但这真是一点剧情没有啊…行吧，还是爽到了。果然一个ip只要一直出，迟早会成为情怀……
之所以四星是因为我还在等进击篇的tv版。
谢：我帅吗？用智商换的。以及，是哪个小天才发明了4d警匪动作电影啊，感觉被谢霆锋甄子丹联手揍了2小时，晃得我腰酸背痛。
3.5，甄子丹未免太装腔作势，也没啥凝聚团队让人信服的魅力。
谢霆锋相当于把新少林寺+证人融合一起
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