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".
本来能拍挺好的，
没想到这么耳熟能详的故事还能拍出花样来…比想象中好看！
历史剧，题材上就加分，动作上没啥可说的，过瘾！人物刻画也是满足了看客不同口味，本身对于虎门销烟的历史故事就比较熟悉，导演把故事节奏拍的比较紧凑，无需过多解释，背景比较熟悉，穿插几个不同情感的小故事，爱情，友情，兄弟情，缜密策略到嬉皮搞笑，刀光剑影到硬壳肉搏，刀光剑影到洋枪洋炮，真是为了满足不同看客，导演真是煞费苦心！
可惜了每个演员都表演得很好，结尾太胡闹了。
可以看出很多地方还是想模仿叶问的，可惜剧本还欠打磨，人物，故事都稀烂。但是布景和镜头感还是不错的，作为网大来说及格吧。
1839.6.2虎门销烟23天
题材挺好的，不知道为啥拍的看起来没有新意也不刺激，还有点犯困。
爽片的准则之一：好人一个没死；之二：不要强行升华。谢苗的动作戏还是很好看的，就是结尾强行升华了；当然过程中的剧情也不能深究。
还不错，武打多但不够精彩，可以删减，剧情略单薄了些，可以再多层次点
完成度不错，尽管是号称乳化，可乳的太不专业，片中居然挂着沈阳卖西安我也是醉了。
这电影叫我想起了国内的辛巴和腾讯，这结局过于美好了人家都是从诈骗慢慢走进 代表和央 事合作的
看吧，坏人死三次才死透，为什么扔下刀打洋人肌肉男，结果又用棍子插他呢，这时候还逞英雄不是傻逼吗？
作为网大天然自带一种粗糙感，不过作为一部根据真实事件改编的作品还是可以的，演员演技也还行，故事也不散乱。就是这个武打动作设计还是很老套没什么美感，谢苗也是跟李连杰合作过好几部动作片的人了，不应该就这点水平啊？
1839.6.2虎门销烟23天
昌大的电影，不错。
本以为是结束，其实是开始，虎门销烟直接造成第一次鸦片战争，林则徐被贬，清王朝被迫签订不平等条约，开放五口通商，鸦片交易合法化，中国开始进入半殖民地半封建社会，电影里最后赢得越畅快，现实中就输的越惨，无数先辈仁人志士舍身赴死，只为国家的独立和富强，惨烈吗？悲壮吗？林大人最后说，总要有人救民于水火，即便你我未能成功，后来人也会前赴后继，华继良说，与有荣焉
看完就知道为什么评分这么低了，不打低分不是中国人，这算辱华了吧
类似台湾拍的那部《巨额来电》，但场面明显更大
虎门销烟，太震撼了，伟大的中国人民，伟大的中国历史👍。有经历才会更好的发展自己。谢苗有一部爱奇艺电影，是长期合作了吗。
主题非常好，看来电信诈骗是国际性问题。严厉打击所有诈骗！但是电影剧情真的一般，男主曾经是警察，女主出车祸，男主救了反派得到信任而打入内部卧底等等，全是老套剧情，也没拍出新意。金武烈是为了尝试不同的角色么，已经成名了还回来演反派。
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