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".
就动画版越走越远，我初心始终是喜欢sao的。但怎么说呢，除了情怀在那边，实际也没太多让我觉得很精彩的地方。桐姥爷出场让我激动了一下下之外也可以说没什么亮点。一开始的百合也…有点生硬。
这么多年过去了，那个耍刀的男人还是这么帅。
新千年以来，不论其他，只论枪战的话，我非常喜欢炸掉中环的《风暴》；只论动作的话，我非常喜欢动作够硬的《导火线》。万万没想到，《怒火》集齐了枪战和动作两个元素，而且都拍得非常硬、非常够劲。谢霆锋竟然能够顶得住，而且在文戏部分远超甄子丹。整部电影的声音处理得非常尖锐，飙车时轮胎摩擦的声音、刀划过空中刺入身体的声音、打断骨头的声音以及混战的枪声，几乎有些刺耳，这些声音所带来的的沉浸感、疼痛感，让人着迷。p.s.片头看到了《风再起时》的预告，接下来香港电影就期待这部了。
双雄对峙的剧情台词都不够张力
SAO10周年活动看完，再看剧场版，80%情怀，亚丝娜再帅…可这是冷饭呀
亚丝娜脱掉斗篷那很帅很惊艳。
可能被之前的好评渲染得期望太高，看完觉得其实就是还不错的典型的打打杀杀的港片。甄子丹能打，但演技好像真的太僵了。谢霆锋疯癫角色真是演活了，没想到他演技这么好。以及看完片只想再次感慨，香港街道真的好窄。
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。
实打实的七分电影，陈木胜最后一部电影，给个四星。
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……
但不论情节戏剧性、情绪代入感、或思想深刻性，还是不如《拆弹专家2》。
7/10。当阿敖带着“我不认命”的狂言倒向一尊摔得粉碎的圣母像被刺破胸膛，犹如香港动作片不甘示微的绝响，陈木胜确实把过山车式的单线表达拍得曲折火爆，看着贫民窟棚屋和污水渠里的打戏，将跳低跳高、怒射地板、重物抛投和碎瓶子的身体攻击，组合成多重变化的动作元素，枪战、飞车戏不失水准，永远比上一次震撼，打劫回府的犯人与警车迎面相遇，接下来爆发决战，街景车道枪烟弥漫、跳弹横飞，汽车冲撞下门店的玻璃碎裂、拥堵的行人匆匆避让，全景将犯人的破坏力展现到极致。发挥不良的仍是喜欢说教的部分，内部调查的会议室上阿邦补充说这世界有许多灰色地带、自己努力做好一点，难免过于正统、让人反感，用碎片式的闪回渲染悲情，表现阿敖在长官压力之下暴力逼供、出事后成为警队之耻的内心屈辱，但打戏并不围绕心理活动展开，使文戏的增加没有余韵。
动作场面实在是让人移不开眼 类型得很刺激//虽然警匪黑白分道的故事说过不少 但人性转变的过程依然好看//认输不认命比我命由我可有意思太多了 意思更接近我们或许能够接触到的生活//谢霆锋这张漂亮的脸为他可能的疯批做了一层薄薄的保险 陈木胜也确实挺会用他的//片尾的缅怀部分 让我想起许鞍华之前说的 电影这么好玩的行业总会有人做的（大意
文戏的赘余和浅白不出所料懒得多提，说说动作戏：与邱礼涛的差别在于近身搏击的拍法全凭拳脚与火力，人物走位动线或模糊不清或严重失真，更别说哪怕一次精彩的调度；与杜琪峰的差别在于过分强调痛感，但身体属性单一（不是报废就是全能）导致疼痛失效，杜sir的电影中只有凡人，拼死维持着脆弱与坚固的平衡，每一次失衡都是绝杀。
世界向前走了，港片没有，作为港片影迷，看到这些预期之内的熟悉节奏，亲切感是有的，而看到一切都在预期之内，失望感也是有的。最要命的是，上次看拆弹专家2就感慨，为什么三十年过去，香港电影的主角还是刘德华刘青云谢君豪，那么今天也是，二十年了，依然是甄子丹谭耀文任达华吕良伟，希望他们活到老演到老，但也希望有些新的面孔吧！
文戏很尬，打戏及格，如此而已。抬起摩托前轮，对着子弹连挡再躲，这就有点说不过去的魔幻了。大家这么喜欢，应该是有其他情绪的附加。能懂。
略失望，动作戏很不错很带感，但是逻辑和情感实在生硬。首先，一开始把坏人打死就很没必要，口供也有了人质也能救到了，还非得为了挑衅而挑衅，不然后面没办法误杀，问题是连误杀都很莫名，六个人拉不开一张嘴？没有别的办法？全片的初始动机就不太有力。其次师徒情，兄弟情也让人很难代入。师父的人物立得很完整，徒弟的就明显交代不够。五兄弟里除了老大不用说，还有就是太子因为太弱而比较有存在感，其他三人，除了做工具人，他们的性格？情感？特点？完全不知道。五个人的绑定情感就让人磕不起来，最后一个个地死去也没有给人什么情感冲击。第三中间有一度节奏慢得没有必要，那段众人敬礼救邦主简直是尬到脚趾扣地，邦主讲了一番深情道理也很生硬，太鸡汤了。结尾的死前对看配上音乐还是很有触动，徒弟的反问也很令人唏嘘，冲这个结尾多给一颗星。
低迷好些年的陈木胜卯足了劲在审讯室那场戏致敬了《黑暗骑士》，状态大勇，可惜这是他的遗作。谢霆锋的角色连嘴角都带着类似小丑那样的伤疤。最后的对决戏从双方用的兵器来看确实有《杀破狼》的感觉，只是当年丹哥年轻，揍吴京时的动作比现在老态尽显地揍谢霆锋狠多了…现在是从文戏到武戏，更别说颜值了，全方位被谢霆锋吊打….一年内第二部港产警匪猛片了，而且它们都是在2019这个年份拍的。
质疑和影射对象仅集中在官僚体制而非整个政治系统，这是《怒火·重案》与《拆弹专家2》最根本的区别，但毕竟定位不同，自然不存在比出个高低的必要性，而怒火和戾气倒是一脉相承；动作场面调度到位，尤其结尾那场教堂决战拍得太好了；子弹射瘸吕良伟揶揄《跛豪》、谢霆锋乔装 “昇味” 厨师揶揄《锋味》戳笑点；谢霆锋不死不能升华质问，即便不是因为审查，也确实必须给他一个bad ending；感情分打满四星。
我觉得谢霆锋特别适合演反派。。。感觉这么多年埋没了。。。演反派很好挖掘了他邪性的一面。最后能把甄子丹带走我就给五星。。
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
