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".
首先是部剧情片，其次是枪战片，然后才是动作片，甄子丹要在片子开始快一小时后才真正动了下手。至于剧情，我认为这与其说是部陈木胜电影，还不如说是甄子丹作品，他这些年的时装动作片，以剧情来说《特殊身份》当然最差，最好一点的其实是《导火线》，当然我不知道最大的功劳要算在谁的身上。谢霆锋全程在下意识的模仿邹兆龙，按正常的演员世代更替，他和甄子丹的角色应该互换。一个真正有智慧的反派，不会这么片段式的报仇，而秦岚角色的惊鸿一瞥，与其说对是内地演员的轻视，还不如说是此类港片本身就不会处理女性角色。
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～)
爆炸，影片里面没有绝对的好人坏人，两者之间只差了一瞬的选择。看得热泪盈眶，可惜陈木胜走了，以后类似的动作片就直接少了一个顶梁柱，也许再也没有了
人对自己只要稍微不注意不谨慎，就会走到河的另一边。
怒火重案滤镜。富人不值得救，高官不值得信。为富不仁，为官不义。
高战在哪儿？为什么不出来跟马军单挑？港片辉煌时期的打手们倾巢而出，动作戏给4星，文戏负分，正反两派的三观都不正常。
生命纯属偶然，所以每个生命都要依恋另一个生命，相依为命，结伴而行。生命纯属偶然，所以每个生命都不属于另一个生命，像一阵风，无牵无挂。
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？！
还行吧，感觉现在香港警匪片已经套路化非常严重了，角色一出场就知道他的故事线，可能导演也想探讨人性但是实际上也没有探出个所以然（题材过于宏大不怪他），只剩谢霆锋倒下后甄子丹头也不回的一个背影，一声叹息……对了，这部戏真是近期我看过普通人类最能打的一部戏了，从头打到尾，全是硬碰硬的肉搏，而且速度惊人，我感觉美队来了都没那么能打
像《拆弹专家2》一样，都是讲一个警察被抛弃后变成匪徒，不太合理，但也许表现了如今港人的一种心态。好久没见到那么精彩的动作戏，最后复刻《杀破狼》和《导火线》的时候甄子丹恍惚又回到了十几年前的状态。
一只故事稀烂、衔接生硬、从人设到行为逻辑极度混乱的超级缝合怪，各种低配版的致敬令人瞠目与唏嘘。
很有力的反派形象。动机充分，干净利落。看到他杀权贵、富豪还挺爽的，好几个场景想到小丑。谢霆锋做了这么多年的厨子，身手不减啊。
香港的警匪片真的百年老字号了，还是熟悉的配方，还是从前的味道，男神竟然都不会老，一撮新料都没有，一锅老汤三代人，传统手艺，香港非物质文化遗产，NB
Ps:跟《拆弹专家2》一样，都是前警察遭受某种不公待遇转而堕落黑化犯罪的故事，令人唏嘘。
警队，富豪，长官，你们不给公平，那他就自己来，血债血偿睚眦必报；可以认输，但绝不认命！
想烫谢霆锋的头发 想让他教我炫酷筷子杀人大法。2021/9/19@万达withC
陈木胜导演遗作，甄子丹、谢霆锋两位“年事已高”的动作电影，一警一匪对决，高潮戏份不断，在香港狭窄的路上飙车戏暗暗叫绝。里面竟然还能穿插职场攻坚战，值得一看的标准港片。
我是警察，惩恶锄奸是我唯一的信条，纵使权贵们以权相私，我也不愿高抬贵手，因为我们喝的不是同一杯茶；
阿晴，活在别人嘴里的角色。心狠手辣帅强惨，邱刚敖这角色真的立住了。入狱的委屈是真的委屈，也许邦没有敖那么极端，但是经历同等残酷不会好到哪去。顶多老婆的命运比阿晴好点。他觉得在他的情况里属于理所当然，其实邱当时不也是那么想的。
杀破狼之后最好的港产动作片，甄子丹的动作场面一如既往的拳拳到肉，待他老去华语电影引以为傲的动作片也就基本落寞了，从李小龙，成龙，李连杰到甄子丹，那个用拳头拼命的时代也快过去了！感谢他们留下的诸多经典！
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