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".
火爆、硬汉，拳拳到肉，梦回《男儿本色》、《保持通话》、《怒火街头》、《扫毒》。各路配角数星星，阵容豪华。谢霆锋360度无死角的帅，西装暴徒永远的神，一如既往的拼，细节上令人爆粗。故事主线节奏一般，不留悬念，闪回过度，部分情节推动突兀，有遗憾，但各种癫狂过火的元素+对陈导的私人情感碰撞，4星。
陈木胜持续了他应有的水平，这部动作片的动作戏还都挺不错的(除了救小孩那场戏超假)，反派也一如既往让人印象深刻，暴力画面毫不含糊，希望未成年人不要观看本片。缺点也是有的，故事并不是特别有趣，台词有些做作，而且以《杀破狼》和《导火线》为模板的话，最后一场打戏其实拍得并不过瘾。但可以肯定的是，谢霆锋是真的帅，演反派更是巨帅！
是港片熟悉的味道，所以也会完成度不高。这次的问题是强行推进剧情，以及最后有点混乱忘记自己要说什么了。谢霆锋的反派没有那么好，甄子丹的正面人物演技更逊色一筹。甄子丹角色是前后逻辑谬误不敢承担责任，谢霆锋角色是为自己失败找借口，无论走哪个路口都可能面临同样死胡同。总体来说，爹味浓厚。与此对应的，就是女人彻底沦为NPC，秦岚是工具人，女警察是点缀，一个未露面的未婚妻阿晴被杀掉了连个辩解露脸的机会都不给。
电影前半部分，一直贯穿着陈木胜独有的警匪动作片气质。。。
3.5/5，片头干脆直接剪掉，实在破坏人的第一印象，故事脉络与《拆弹专家2》类似，都是警察序列的个体遭遇不公，片中谢霆锋的角色有些偏执，使用相当的武力获取情报，可是铸成大错却是在情报已经拿到之后，使得该角色遭遇难以从逻辑上说通，到最后火并完全是动情于兄弟情，可是这份兄弟情却因为对一个犯错的同僚下死手又变得略显虚假
很少看到这么精彩的动作戏了，果然动作戏还是要看港片
全程几乎没废话，劈里啪啦打得很爽，这就够了。
为什么大家都喜欢谢霆锋的角色？当然不仅是帅，更在于他身上有凡人的恩怨情仇，尽皆癫狂尽皆过火的杀戮也显得真实而悲怆。反观甄子丹的角色，和六十年前“我是李向阳”如出一辙的高大全，实在是太假大空（或许如此才能过审？）动作设计很漂亮，枪战、爆炸和追车的戏码依然很港味，字幕出来时陈木胜导演在片场的音容笑貌也令人泪目，但全片人物的脸谱化，特别是超级丹那张扑克脸实在是无感无语。结尾谢霆锋不愿束手就擒傲然自杀前的那番话，那孤注一掷的愤慨和不惜鱼死网破的决绝，也许是陈木胜和那一代香港影人对自身命运的控诉和对香港未来的隐喻。港片已死，单纯靠一个谢霆锋救不了，毫无疑问。
陈木胜的名字对喜欢港片的观众算是耳熟能详，第一部导演作品《天若有情》已经是永恒的经典，导演和演员们有最好的化学反应。……之后的作品都是大牌演员，稳定性却不好，忽高忽低，但一个导演有几部堪称经典的作品，就已经足够未来的观众穿越了。……本片并不好，本以为会是第二个《男儿本色》，没想到从剧本到表演都立不住。……《男儿本色》的武指李忠志负责飞车特技，甄子丹负责武术指导，飞车还行，甄子丹负责的武戏并不好，还不如《龙虎门》。……香港的老演员，一个个都来蹭一下，投资人的钱变成了救济款？……秦岚，合拍片的女主，都是花瓶+酱油？……故事实在太差，堪比张艺谋。
看的时候我想起《老炮儿》，对我来说，你错了就是错了，划了人家车就该赔钱，打死人就去坐牢，谁坑你你就去报复谁，一码归一码。陈木胜电影里的女性角色千篇一律，男人视角下的人妻角色一向是是失语的，被损害的。甄子丹老了，看他的时候都不让人心动了！
复仇，复仇，那是仇恨的种子
动作场面还是很精彩的，小谢太帅了太帅了太帅了太帅了太帅了太帅了，别做厨子了回来演戏吧！！！
就能把人看难过。守规矩还是讲人情。这些社会霸凌底下，怎么一边对抗人性之恶，一边还能坚持不被同化。像教小孩不要打人，但如果Ta被打了被欺负了，要不要打回来（怎么合理打回来）呢。不难理解年轻气盛少年郎，为什么都极端厌恶“表里不一”两套规矩。从家庭、书本、老师（师傅）庇护的完美世界信念里，过渡到现实人情社会的总总。这个心理转变也很需要人守护吧。
像看了一部世纪初的警匪片，好像互联网时代不存在一样，硬桥硬马，拳头说话。其实世界演变到今天，尤其是互联网时代，人的思维不一样，作案手法不同，坏蛋好人也应该有所演变。这种刻舟求剑的故事早晚要淘汰。
警察追查毒品，却发现幕后主谋是一帮刚出狱的前警察伙计；
白头神探后最能诠释害人精三字的警察，内部调查一段让我笑的无比畅快
非常血腥暴力，但是这个暴力的源头（谢霆锋）却不够邪恶黑暗，所以如此暴力的镜头其实算“滥用”了。外部动作都集中在了人民内部矛盾（身份认同上的深度精分），而对阶级矛盾和敌我矛盾却着墨不多，这是近年来香港警匪片的通病。卡司强大，香港男演员真是个个冻龄，身材相貌精神全都很在线。
看到最后一直在纠结两个主要人物的人物形象，到底哪个让我更不适，但后来想想把他们放在那个系统里他们也只能这样了，而且主要矛盾也不在他们那，电影尽量不着重那些恶兽，而是所谓的正邪双雄对决，愤怒都寄托在密集的动作戏和浅层的人物塑造上。他们或许应该站在一起的，正如当下，但没有
没想到这么多年了甄子丹的肌肉还是这么强
吃完茶餐厅来看港片，最后哭了，谢霆锋这张脸谁能恨的起来，最后时刻，他身上那些激光点像萤火虫一样美，这告诉我们警队不要随便开除警籍，会出事。那辆车穿过橱窗，小鹿摆设掉出来了，npy：哇，一只烧鸭飞出来了。
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