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".
陈木胜导演捍卫了香港动作电影最后的荣光。一路走好。
也许该更宽容点，但的确失望。和银河的作品比也就差几个拆弹专家吧！配角都太没有个性了，也就谢霆锋还有些进步，但这个反派还不够变态，哪怕拥有杀破狼2里古天乐的发型也好！
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》。
既不怒火也不重案，等到要打的时候已经累了困了不行了，也就看看霆锋耍帅了，老套得不能再老套，发现挺多眼熟的老男港星还是选择了拉皮，绷得一个紧，何必呢，还是化妆师的祸？2D良心粤语版遗作加一星吧。
略北京腔的配音有点拉垮，但还是熟悉的港片味道，现在真的已经越来越少了，谢霆锋演技也是max，比相对木讷的甄子丹要好的多。甄最后的不屑，也没有觉得有多高大上，只是自比清高的置身事外罢了。
3.8 太久没看了 对刀剑的印象停留在邮寄爱丽丝那里🤔第一季基本上忘光了 但感觉和第一季有点不一样？亚斯娜和桐人都变幼了 所以这是if线吗
从亚丝娜的视角去讲述sao的故事，果然还是第一部的故事好看！
并没有超越《导火线》，甄子丹全方位暴露自己的表演短板。但我还想再看一遍教堂大战！是甄子丹被打得最惨的一次吧？
甄子丹的角色永远都是个人利己，公私不分，公报私仇，他的角色逻辑永远都是混乱的，因为他要表现自己最厉害最能打最正义，他不是以情理服人的，而是自以为是，自欺欺人。
其实，这只是一次标准陈木胜动作片的正常发挥。不过，即便是这样程度的港式时装动作片，在当下，可能也越来越少了，倒让人有些伤感了。
本片中三个最震撼的镜头都来自谢霆锋饰演的邪魅疯魔美人：1、在姚sir临死前摘下面具后的阴郁邪魅一笑+2、枪战时背对火光扔手榴弹+3、临死前说出疑问后的后仰坠地，三个画面的运用极其暴力又充满美感。 香港警匪动作片真真无可取代，难以超越，作为陈木胜导演的最后一部作品，大师谢幕，不知后继者何在？
陆港合拍，亦算是陈木胜导演遗作。本子很弱，弱到剧情经不起推敲，动作倒是凌厉、干脆，有拳拳到肉的利落。摩托躲避追捕段落太过，结尾又call back杀破狼，不过是把吴京换成谢霆锋。这部里的谢霆锋演绎英气诡谲，算是个不小的看点。始终在香港警匪片模式化套路化中重复，没有哪怕一丝半点突破。
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。
影片故事结构差了一点，耍帅炫技的打戏过多。要是能在前面将好人如何信仰崩塌最终变成反社会人格铺垫好，就能接住后面所有剧情，会是个不错的片子。可惜了。
法庭审判算是全片最好看的文戏
【B】故事上没多少可说的，审查尺度与导演水准共同限制了文戏上限，电影一开始抛出的有关「程序正义」和「司法腐败」的对抗命题到了最后已不见踪迹，仍旧桎梏于旧有港式警匪片的套路之中，也并未有作出突破的打算。实质便是陈木胜在生命最后时刻，倾其所有为观众展现香港动作片的昔日荣光。枪战、爆破、肉搏、追逐，种种娱乐大片元素都那般眼熟，因为它们只是过往类型经验的反复挑选再利用。教堂决斗一段又能看出多少经典动作片的影子？满腔怒火下的镜头剪切却稍显细碎，似乎也在告诉观众武打演员的黄金时代早已远去。倒也绝非港味时装动作片的“绝唱”，只是每隔一段时间电影市场所施展的回魂术，新瓶旧酒反反复复，让观众适时缅怀而后走人。
#电影院#“永远怀念在天国的陈木胜导演” 多年后又被谢霆锋疯批美强惨的范儿恶狠狠地帅到了！巷道里扔手榴弹的画面吊炸天可以重复无数次。真希望有人去炸了他的厨房把他绑回来好好拍戏。“如果那天是你去抓可乐，是不是命运就不一样了？”一枚硬币的两面，发人深思
情节比上一个剧场版平淡许多，毕竟只是讲第一层的故事，好多冲突都无法展开，画面细节度高了很多，其实根本没必要。
比起序列之争还是差了点，太短了而且加了原创。删了鼠姐真的没必要的
如果你有多余的时间去看，那么它还是好看的，但是再也没有12年时候的惊艳了，桐姥爷跟亚丝娜相遇铺垫太少，虽然是对亚丝娜成长的补充，但是中间那段真的看得让人想睡觉
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