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".
全程被谢霆锋帅到爆炸……陈木胜也太会拍反面角色了吧！ 还拍了扫毒最帅渣渣辉 爱了爱了 说回这部戏 武戏挺好看 干净利落 枪战 飙车 爆炸场面也很OK 文戏不多 不拖后腿 剧情简洁明了 节奏也不拖沓 一部标准版香港警匪犯罪片
文戏是垮的，尤其甄子丹接受聆讯时那段前言不搭后语的伟岸宣言，尬到内心疯狂吐槽和翻白眼；但，多颗星给担忧之后再也没有人愿意拍这样的硬核动作戏，以及谢霆锋真的帅炸了！
IMAX粤语场。陈木胜导演用这部本不该是“告别作品”的作品向大家宣告：他依然是执导港产时装动作片这块的佼佼者。某种程度上和去年年末的《拆弹专家2》很相似，但是本片相比前者更专注于体制内的妥协与冲突(不像前者在最后将格局做得很大，这部自始至终基本上都集中在甄与谢角色间“留在体制与离开体制”而造成的戏剧冲突上)，尤其是许久未在大荧幕前这么让人感到惊艳的谢霆锋的角色的暴戾更是加重了全片这一主题上的力度。文戏部分群戏有些垮，不过陈导不愧是最会拍谢霆锋的导演，反派“阿敖”这一角色塑造得非常到位；而甄家班的动作设计在此类时装动作片中更是信手拈来，最后甄同谢的一对一搏斗在致敬《杀破狼1》的巷战基础上加入了不少新的创意。最后，陈导一路走好！R.I.P, Mr. Benny Chan.
火爆而纯粹的电影。
剧情平庸、打戏精彩，甄子丹圣母biao、谢霆锋真男人。
开场挂警，赛博朋克风拉满，谢霆锋帅翻全场，这果然是一个“君子报仇，十年不晚”的故事，就是节奏不太给力，单就每场戏来说都很好，看完才知道是陈木胜导演遗作，坚持拍完电影只是无力完成后期，导演值得一座金像奖。
致敬陈木胜导演。（谢霆锋也就一般吧，最后要是给反派加个撒钱的戏份，那就真的会很爽）
全程被谢霆锋帅到爆炸……陈木胜也太会拍反面角色了吧！ 还拍了扫毒最帅渣渣辉 爱了爱了 说回这部戏 武戏挺好看 干净利落 枪战 飙车 爆炸场面也很OK 文戏不多 不拖后腿 剧情简洁明了 节奏也不拖沓 一部标准版香港警匪犯罪片
7.3分，武戏和《杀破狼》《导火线》是一个水准上的，文戏真的太薄弱。先不谈论电影中谢霆锋的所做所为到底算不算“灰色″吧，许多台词设计的很出戏，有的人被人痛打了还声嘶力竭地喊"你要干什么″，这不废话，杀你呀。看到戴面具就说开party，什么道理？还有公子杀女友的那段对话，全剧中最没有逻辑的一段台词，完全是赶剧情。
武戏又多又密，冷兵器的画面都很血腥，故事讲得很一般，最后收尾也让我觉得没完，和《拆弹专家2》几乎一样的背景，不是太有新意，吐槽一下，谢霆锋每次演坏人为啥都是变态…还有甄子丹最后被一刀扎穿手掌，抽出来之后的表情为何毫无痛感……最后，为啥总要找个内地女演员来演主角的伴侣，没有这个也不影响在内地上映吧？！
IMAX粤语场。陈木胜导演用这部本不该是“告别作品”的作品向大家宣告：他依然是执导港产时装动作片这块的佼佼者。某种程度上和去年年末的《拆弹专家2》很相似，但是本片相比前者更专注于体制内的妥协与冲突(不像前者在最后将格局做得很大，这部自始至终基本上都集中在甄与谢角色间“留在体制与离开体制”而造成的戏剧冲突上)，尤其是许久未在大荧幕前这么让人感到惊艳的谢霆锋的角色的暴戾更是加重了全片这一主题上的力度。文戏部分群戏有些垮，不过陈导不愧是最会拍谢霆锋的导演，反派“阿敖”这一角色塑造得非常到位；而甄家班的动作设计在此类时装动作片中更是信手拈来，最后甄同谢的一对一搏斗在致敬《杀破狼1》的巷战基础上加入了不少新的创意。最后，陈导一路走好！R.I.P, Mr. Benny Chan.
最后一幕虽然都放在教堂了，但是这个人设本身还是很难扭回来。当然片尾直接转到缅怀陈木胜导演，那又是另外一回事了，RIP
而且甄子丹演技emmmm
上一部陈木胜的警匪片是2013年的《扫毒》～或许，这些警匪片的剧情不应该活在4K画面里，录像带画质和TVB小屏幕可能更适合这种叙事风格～后期调色比较糙，用棕黄和铁蓝来区分两个时间段的故事也显出较刻意，几段香港城市风景的画面更像是从素材片里贴过来的，画风完全不搭～街市追车戏仍旧精彩，演员动作表演卖力，但是画面调度和摄影跟不上节奏，显得较为可惜～甄子丹文戏微微好了一点，谢霆锋好几部片人物设计都是一紧张就咬手指，能不能有点突破？(之前就觉得眼熟，这两天回看《洛城机密》后才发现，人物描写和导火索桥段相似性颇高～)
太肾上腺素了，炸到空虚疲惫，子弹飞完车还要飞身救人实在忍不住笑了。步入中年的小谢还是帅过一票年轻流量，两人最后对决倒是值回票价，但总忍不住想是不是子弹在片场改的剧本。以及，香港警方内卷从无间道到现在都没有半点好转吗
这种片我一般不看结尾部分，不用说结尾是警察赢。如果我来拍肯定是相反。
老派港式警匪动作爽片，绑匪惨案差佬仕途多磨难，暗黑宿命兄弟心仇难离断，细节处理和角色转变过于简单粗暴，兄弟情义与体制正义的探讨流于表面，谢霆锋的疯魔嗜杀复仇狂够帅够痞够拽够狠够邪魅，其余角色相对脸谱化，几场火拼的狂暴质感和节奏把控依旧是陈导的拿手好戏，无奈整体枪战场面写实感和爽度欠佳，教堂决战非常惨烈过瘾，可以入选十年最佳动作场面，甄家班对动作设计的探索又有了新的突破，整体精简成95分钟会更好
怒火，怒火，那是喷薄的戾气
就还行吧，前半部几乎无聊，后半部拉回来一点
7分，感觉剧情设置上和《拆弹专家2》有些重复，相似的白变黑故事，相似的价值取向冲突，不知道这是不是未来港匪片的标配了😂。特效和动作上还是没话说，两位男主间的打斗依然精彩。
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