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".
故事讲述被迫从海军陆战队退伍后，詹姆斯·里德（克里斯·派恩 饰）加入了一个准军事组织来维持生计。第一次执行任务时，里德就在东欧遭到追捕。他必须努力活到足够长的时间才能回家，并找出背叛他的人的真正动机。
我愿称之为：印度乞丐版肉身机械战警/钢铁侠。
这种片最大的硬伤就是只要把主角说成是对的，其他的一切都会为此而扭曲。
下岗干部，拖家带口；老马迷途，志在千米；错上贼船，异国落草；兄弟阋墙，看钱说话。
过气老套，但整体还不是太差，类似《亡命天涯》《生死狙击》的缩水减配剧本，本福斯特适合演纯恶人，这部良心发现就很无聊，至于克里斯派恩，现在已经从好莱坞一线往三线俯冲，而且依然没有刹住的迹象。
在没有谍影重重的年代，这样的片子已经算还可以的了，
前面还挺好，最后大决战的时候太草率了，可惜
爽得eb！请无脑观看印度神片（也没那么神吧hhh）AI仿真芯片+纳米机器人拯救人类哈哈哈
让特工杰克鲍威尔来扮演出卖参加黑色行动的“爱国者”的幕后黑手，这份用心真让人感动……
人物非常不连贯，打来打去的也不算特别好看。
6.5分作品，典型美剧扩大化，里面克里斯派恩的表演就值多加1分。只是电影主旨还是有点出乎我意料了，本以为是迈克尔贝式的狂轰乱炸爽片，结果是类似于国土安全这种带有深刻反思的小成本动作片。直到40分才开始有第一场战术战斗，结果时长也就十分钟，前面全部是主角生活的压抑和不如意。第一段动作场面之后，又是很长的平淡追逐戏，有些逻辑都没有自圆其说。最后的反转其实也挺莫名其妙。但是你要说不好看吧，也就等于看两集国土安全，无论是故作深刻还是各方角色的意图，都是很接近的。不过克里斯派恩的演技，在这部戏里面还挺好的，完全不像神奇女侠或者星际迷航那么莽撞，开头半小时把一个膝盖受伤、不得不被清除队伍的边缘士兵演的很到位，一个很典型的转型角色，至少给这部片增色不少。
虽然动不动就唱歌，结局部分也略脑残了，瑕不掩瑜，运镜动作我给满分，请恕我没见过世面，剧情紧张程度也不错，开挂战士贼猛！
节奏太慢…所以收得特别快，我是没理解为啥要灭口，你看不灭口不就屁事没有了么…
不算难看…但是这类型片在前珠玉太多了…确实算不上好看。男主人设除了突出家庭为重以外没有任何突出的情感和三观，出任务被背叛被救复仇仿佛流水线…整个过程中虽然杀了无辜的人同僚害死了恩人和朋友，但最后拿钱回家的微微一笑，仿佛一切都好起来了…还好是派派，要不可能还得少颗星。
抛去各种槽点和漏洞，把世间险恶讲的很清晰，人性够黑暗。
克里斯派恩啊，拍完一触即发你还不长教训吗，唉
总感觉充斥着美帝主义高高在上的感觉，你紧跟时事，抨击现实，都能理解，为国奉献的老兵，落得一身病，你让人家退役，保险退休金全剥离，可，为了生活，美国人没有储蓄习惯确实是个问题，不能因为失去工作，马上生活就陷入这种困顿，也能理解你是为了铺垫，人去找出路，私人武装，雇佣兵原来在美国这么能放到台面上说，其实感觉各种方式都有利弊，第一次任务，就是充斥着背叛，一番磨难，回到美国，几句话让兄弟为我卖命，你杀了上级，但是你单打独斗咋玩儿的过搞平台的，你在德国杀的人，不讲你美国人，你杀的科学家、你杀的警察，每个人背后都是一个家庭，都不讲，就讲男主回归家庭，不知道是篇幅不够，还是彻底的蔑视。
加入这个秘密组织有点突然；马上接到任务也算了，不明白为什么大BOSS要杀他，明明没有迹象表明背叛，还要付400万，不是钱啊，没说（清楚）；本来期待最后一战应该是很豪华很激烈的，结果大BOSS不是被主角KO的，主角也不是RAMBO。就这样咯，平平淡淡
燃还是满燃的，印度式拯救。芯片居然如此成功，那可以批量制造了，占领全世界指日可待。
剪接干脆利落，主题线清晰，第一幕OK，进入第二幕从入侵实验室开始太多bug，第三幕惨不忍睹，可惜好题材。2022·7·4 5.8/5698 短评1678条 %18/52/30 【IMDb5.8/1.5万 预算5000万美元，北美票房103.52万美元，全球票房212.22万美元】
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