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".
“我只是想专心做警察”这种大家都懂的主题还有必要如此制式化地配这么多文戏吗…老婆还一定要是怀孕的… 剧情方面唯一亮点是隐约能看到的两代师徒“谁拗得过谁”这条银线。 废弃商场和最终对决两段核心的武戏出彩，有港片魂了。 谢霆锋帅得很收敛，能看出岁月了。
看的普通话版，对白真的是个大问题，立意不错，有点借鉴小丑，人物还是差了点火候，少了些复杂性，或许是因为审查，也或许是出于商业性，选择了不讲逻辑大起大落过山车式的爽感。
Link start！能在电影院看到就好了
文戏和角色塑造一如预料，枪战戏比预期更火爆，动作戏还是差一口气。甄子丹虽然还是很拼命，但身手总归没有导火线和杀破狼时那么干净利落，但还是可以看到很多似曾相识的动作设计。谢霆锋的黑化警察演的很出色，非常邪魅，但感觉稍微有点用力过猛，导致人物被一眼看的透透的。教堂单挑固然是全片高潮，但令我印象最深的一个动作设计反而是甄子丹面对大货车抱着孩子飞身而起那一瞬间。香港真功夫硬打斗的动作片看一部少一部了。
双雄对峙的剧情台词都不够张力
不错，把亚丝娜前面的剧情补齐了，希望还有后面的
没有剧情 全是打戏 看完之后我只好奇一个旅游包能装多少现金？麻烦大佬为我换算下，不然抢银行死五人性价比太低了，搏一搏换了个自行车这是
时代变了 特效越来越棒了 还是第一个剧情更吸引人
怎么就这么期待反派能赢呢？有些转折还是太生硬，前面的警界那么官僚，放甄子丹又突然装得很人情。谢霆锋前面都计划周详，偏偏抢银行毫无撤退计划，设定太生硬。
正义战胜了邪恶，然后呢？甄子丹估计也待不下去了吧。这个体制就是这样，把每个人都变成明哲保身的打工人。
5.5。如果不看原作进击篇小说其实还行，但是作为多年前买了天角实体小说的读者虽然记不清剧情了，好像并不是这样写的emmm为了改编而加入的兔泽也只是个工具人，没有按原作动画化可惜了（有一说一，现在这么普普通通的动画作品也能拿到均分8分，还入了“冷门优作”榜，时代真的变了
内容没一点一样的，挂羊头卖狗肉欺骗小说观众是吧，真有你的，A1
浪费了周六晚黄金时间的两个小时，剧情俗套，人物动机简单粗暴，节奏磨叽，叙事方式老派，从主演到配角个个工具人，表演浮于表面，还充斥着难以下咽的冲泡速食鸡汤，全程不看手机不离场是我观影最后的素质和底线。
怒火发于内心 “服务为本 精益求精”；和李安的摩托戏一对比 陈木胜的打击感和紧迫感可震撼太多了
20多年了，阿祖之后，终于又有了一个招人疼爱的邪魅大反派，谢霆锋完全不会老的吗？！杀我
重情重义，缺乏细节支持的标准动作片。
这种剧情老套平平无奇的电影居然都有7.7分，看来还是疫情期间太缺好电影了。看完耳朵疼。2021.7.31 @梅溪湖步步高。
动作场面很扎实，坏人一扭恶到底也很凶狠。这两年警队黑色和跳匪都成为港片永远的话题了…给Benny导演+一星，看到最后教堂场面，想到香港电影又少了一枚璀璨的星，着实让人泪眼朦胧…该片制片很牛啊，海港城外枪战，真的没见过！！
十年了，太快了，刀剑神域yyds！当年的入坑作，爷的青春又回来了！！！这部是亚丝娜视角的第一部前篇，什么时候能全集重置我还能再看十遍。
速度，爆炸力，几场情绪戏也把握不住
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