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".
快速的镜头切换，让人以为这是部很火爆的电影，其实狗屁不是！
前半段还会觉得，这无人机耍的，那么好玩吗？到了后面……这拍的都什么鬼？
最大槽点还是老吉折腾这么多，在亲情和金钱间挣扎，最后选择不要钱要兄弟，然后就被兄弟..
还是那句话，“电影院的环境会放大人对一部片子的爱憎。”
hate him or hate him, the man's the master of his craft😎
就这还专业抢银行的？这好像随便从菜市场找几个人就过来抢银行来了，威尔这个人物设定太坑了，逻辑上根本说不通……
非常纯粹的追车类犯罪动作电影，虽然没有大的惊喜，总体完成度还是不错的。人物弧光也完成得挺好。近年来好莱坞这种“单纯”的作品已经变得越来越难得了，总是要夹带些乱七八糟的东西。
做为弱剧情重感官的大爽片，这剧作结构确实很爆炸贝，开头二十分钟快速过人物跟背景，剩下两小时全在追车枪战加爆炸。除了经典的大仰拍，360环绕拍，最有意思的还是首次在商业电影里使用穿梭机做为主要拍摄器材，神经病一般的运镜简直玩疯了。一般的科班导演还不一定会这样玩，毕竟影像作品没有框架限制才有无限可能。
这么闹能把我看困了也就属爆炸贝了。 朋友吐槽，满片子道奇，通用赞助了个寂寞。
合格的商业片，开局半小时就开始抓人眼球，紧张刺激，警匪片该有的都有了，不要去想什么教育意义，或者什么拍片逻辑，真要什么所谓的合情合理的话，估计就剩纪实片能看了。对普通观众来讲，电影好坏很简单，要么看睡着，或者根本看不下去。要么抓住观众的心，有欲望一直看完。这类电影本就是放松心情的。对比一些国内网络电影都能上三星，这个可以值得四星。
根本没必要把童年的画面一直闪回，多余的很，完全没办法共情。
剧中两主角，Danny 为了情谊拔枪勇斗黑帮大佬；Will为了女人朝兄弟背后放冷枪，，，，等等，是为了哪个女人？也可能是为了Amy吧。
故事差劲，为看艾莎冈萨雷斯。如果能花大价钱请卖拷贝这样的高技术电影玩家拍正能量，他绝对能把矢拍得炫酷无比，这才是文---宣最缺的。为此多加一星。
这才是真正的速度与激情，两个多小时，飙车戏太满了，喜欢看飙车戏的人估计一次能看过瘾，对容易晕车的人来说不太友好。故事拖的太长了，啰嗦，而且很多缺逻辑的地方，为了爽也不能缺了脑子啊是吧？几个退伍兵和一个世袭抢银行继任者根本就没打出应有的战斗水平，战斗力还不如几个刑警。唯二可夸赞的就是影片内涵吧，影射了丑国退伍军人待遇不行导致的社会动乱，还有一票政福内部人士的黑暗。唯三可夸的就是摄影了，确实厉害，很多炫技的地方。
普通商业动作片。迈克尔·贝这次爆炸场面不多，追逐戏不少，使用了大量无人机拍摄镜头，很炫，也很眩晕。其实创意还是不错的，劫匪走投无路抢了救护车，车上有受伤的警察，所以哪怕全城警车都在这辆救护车后跟着，也不敢对这车怎么样。问题是也不能一直开下去，过程中得想办法让这场戏有趣起来，比如开车的过程中做个外科手术。残暴的人直接挂掉，善良的人不仅获救还能得钱，人美心善的人值得用漂亮的樱花衬托。总觉得这样的卡司应该更好才对，不过就这种水平也行吧，最近对院线片要求不高。
3.5星，135min。廉颇老矣 尚能饭否？结局很温情，中端有点松垮，就豆瓣这个评分，absolutely underestimated.
形式大于内容，炫技大于逻辑。光明正大不戴头套的劫匪，彼此呼唤真名。几十辆警车外加两架直升机，只会一路傻子似的跟在救护车后干追。照顾了方方面面的政治正确，却连一个起码的故事都讲得磕碜。真不知道贝导是江郎才尽，还是看透了烂片只要炸炸炸，照样也能圈钱。
【中影公映国配】老乡见老乡，背后来一枪。再牛逼的运镜也拯救不了这操蛋的结局，真为丹尼不值，碰上这种反骨仔
忽略文戏和强行拔高的正能量，音效和配乐偶尔拉得过高、略出戏，警匪枪战、飙车的对峙还是很爽的，比如俯冲式镜头、对峙时各种来回，哪怕是史上最慢速的追车，总体算合格的影院爆米花电影，值得看最命大的警察，还有原来城市人人都怕的是晚高峰。
5.5/10。混乱的动作戏和迷惑的文戏：一套经典的无人机+高饱和+逆光+升格+高速剪辑的卖拷贝式组合拳去影院看估计能把人眼睛晃晕，而比剪辑更令人不适的是毫无原则的圣母心和强行植入的兄弟情。（136min ver.）
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