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".
前面安静铺垫20分钟，然后全是“前方高能”。果然像传说中的那样几乎从头到尾都是车戏，跟变形金刚似的车队出动，用很多杂物、垃圾、尘土表现冲撞感，使用大量航拍镜头，爱车的迈克尔·贝这次总该拍爽了。想起小时候看的电影《生死时速》，这部里的两位男主也多次说，我们是鲨鱼，永远不会停下来。但它又不是那种始终让人紧绷着一根弦的动作片，飙车不能停的同时，也有些沙雕搞笑时刻。看开头我还在疑惑，导演到底打算怎么把抢银行和救护车结合起来，之后两条线汇流到一起，就产生了戏剧效果—劫匪不是坏人，急救人员则会无条件救人，但当他们的命运被绑到一起，就不得不共同完成这场惊动全城的犯罪逃亡。黑白两兄弟+退伍军人身份、人质与劫匪的共情有美式正能量和理想化的一面，总之是个轻松没什么大毛病的爆米花片吧。
哇塞，剧情垃垮，男女主颜值也一般，演技更不行，剪辑的也莫名其妙，不能拍几部好看的青春电影嘛
设下了很多道德难题，尊重每一个作为人的个体，特别重要。
不过还挺有意思的😂
算是个“实时”电影，各种催人晕眩的镜头狂轰滥炸，比较不能忍的是节奏，中段明显让人视觉疲劳
在新技术设备日新月异的当下，爆炸贝试图尝试新的拍摄形式，但是其一如既往对于电影长度与节奏的失控，特别是缺乏扎实故事的前提下，超过两个小时的快速剪辑和无休止的追逐都是让人头痛的大问题。
老套情节
【136mins】6.5/10，开头第一幕真的是乱七八糟，人物的行为逻辑和银行的空间结构完全没有呈现，几乎是东边打一枪西边射一炮。但当杂兵们死掉仅剩主角，空间集中围绕至一辆救护车时，影片节奏逐渐回火，前面那些眼花缭乱到令人呕吐的快速运动镜头也不再是累赘，而是不断刺激观感的砝码以及对公路追逐空间的延伸。高速行驶中进行取子弹手术最惊心动魄，不过出血量过大估计银幕上不会有完整戏码。结尾升华太硬了，不喜欢。
爽，太爽了，几乎没有冗余拖沓无聊尴尬不必要的文戏，全程高能拉满，看的就是迈克尔贝的炸炸炸。某些导演，不擅长拍文戏就不要拍，爆炸就是艺术，炸就完事了
我为什么要浪费生命中的两小时来看这种东西。。。。
最近有点心率不齐，卖拷贝老师用这部电影差点把我送上救护车；想起同样是江郎才尽的动作片导演，钙里奇老师终究在节奏上还保有些许巅峰的影子，卖老师就是彻底摆烂了：全片中后段不时对着驾驶位的二人和车外的警匪一通乱摇胡切直让人怀疑他是不是忘记车厢里还有俩大活人。
整体故事线狗血腐朽，但推拉和互相挑逗的戏码可太好看了啊啊啊。
嗯。。。男女主颜值撑起了这部剧，剧情非常非常土，不过很好嗑
这片子拍100分钟都绰绰有余吧，硬拍成136分钟即便有酷炫的无人机视角都很难忍受，超过一个半小时的救护车狂飙逃亡，癫狂的剪辑和摄影，能把人看到在影院里犯晕车。
大银幕Dolby版。迈克尔贝回血失败。看得让人只想把迈克尔曼Heat里的街头交火翻出来洗洗眼睛。太累了，拼命的追求速度感和那些满屏的视觉污染物，熬得观众也气喘吁吁。还借角色之口提了两嘴自己辉煌时期的前作，就开场一个近似的表达去回想一下当年The Rock是什么样的吧，怎样的高效、声画处理和配乐又是怎样… 一声叹息，无力吐槽了。
欧美青春片写起来就是爽一小时party一小时在各种场景做爱。
终于看见了腿不那么细的女主角了，and合拍的爱情真的也太快乐了吧，怪不得大家都喜欢搞对象
虽然剧情很口水。虽然我能猜到男主经历了什么。虽然和after是一个类型的剧情。但是当年照样给after打了满分，所以这次我也要给隔窗满分。（画面很美）
开始我觉得佛洛伊德是一种浅薄，后来想，也许是被喜欢猎奇的家伙们的一知半解带偏了，现在，只要你提什么一切根源都是性，少年儿童时代一点点不如意都造成了现在个体深深的精神创伤，我都归结为此精神分析学家提供的是一种幼稚的、小学童式的真相，我们浮光掠影地从中学到一些令人震惊的东西，被吸引了注意力。
拍涩涩的青春爱情片就算了，还夹杂一出土味继承者的剧情，有钱人的格局太小了，咱就是说村首富也不至于这样，古早玛丽苏剧情，无聊时可撸。
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