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".
8.2/10 在短短九十分钟内, 在不同情景中依靠不同的角色, 展开多场追逐戏份。 作为一部商业作品, 本作采用此种极为有效的方式保障自身的趣味; 并且作品优质的完成度, 也佐证了此方式的成功。 简洁流畅的叙事, 以及短小精悍的时长, 皆让本作的人物相较于同类型其他作品而言, 行动足够干净利索。 这也更加保障了本作作为一部商业作品的观赏性。最终成品足够丰富，也足够精彩。 可惜作为一部让演员扮演本人的作品, 相较于市场自由的创作环境而言仍有许多不符合现实之处。 同时为了降低作品的观览等级, 在多次删减后有些许情节留下遗憾。 总而言之，作为一部商业作品, 本作现今成品的质量已属同类型作品之上游；虽然有些许失误，但并不算严重。
最要命的是，王千源的角色，在翻拍版里，实在没有够得上的。韩版的反派金宰范，给王千源提鞋都不配。
[视][20.1.14想看]女人质、女绑匪、女警加起来不如李梦。新人导演，王千源、刘烨咖位未匹配。小人物刻画一般，朴成雄客串差劲
少有的韩国翻拍大陆的故事。节奏挺好的。还行。没啥意外和惊喜。
一部彻头彻尾失败的韩国本土化改编—— 将原版代入感极强的氛围营造、悍匪偶尔人性乍现的精彩瞬间以及人在面对极端危险时所做出的各种选择和心理弧线，统统简化成了韩国最常见的犯罪动作片套路。 结果便导致其失去了几乎所有原来的精髓与灵魂，最终沦为影视工业流水线上的一部平庸之作。
《解救吾先生》实在没必要翻拍，没有引起普通人共鸣，被绑时间也短，还不如看《省港旗兵》。
比国产真的差多了，没有凸显出原版的刑侦写实性，有些过于娱乐性了，剧情也比较仓促，草草了事就收尾了，影帝黄政民也救不了这部电影的口碑
和原版比起来像干脆换了一个类型，原版玩儿人性心理战，韩版玩爽。胜在精干短小，节奏抓得刚刚好，喜欢配乐的氛围营造。
过火，癫狂
中规中矩，还行吧，感觉不如《解救吾先生》真实、恐怖
3.5，虽然改编自《解救吾先生》，但是是套了框架，确实如导演所说的，着重点不同了。开篇引入其实已经很快了，而且铺垫的东西全都是有用且圆了回来，但还是有点不太吸睛，但追逐戏的节奏与紧凑感绝对能被称赞一下，绑架犯里的女生让人想起了毒战的李周英，但李周英更飒。剧中有笑点，但需要是了解韩影或者黄晸玟演过的角色才能get到的。整体叙事不带累赘，黄晸玟演技也是真的可，黄晸玟演黄晸玟本身，无法分辨何时是演戏何时是“本人”，所以“骗人”的那场戏，真的是被骗了吗，能说有又能说没有
除了黃政民保持一貫的水準，電影其他單位在做什麼？這劇本說不過去啊
1）黄演员的声明已经到达根本不需要解释黄演员是谁的程度。黄演员演的并不是黄演员，而是一个黄姓著名演员，就和各种剧本人设的著名演员一样，只不过这个人设是按照黄演员这个真人设定的。2）想说这是部低成本电影，可那街头追车算什么，想想那些追车镜头真够鸡肋的，大概是申请国家电影经费不得不多写点预算吧。3）没有和黄演员旗鼓相当的演技的演员加持，就觉得是黄演员自己在那边飙演技玩，而且人物越来越没立体感，神话的黄演员似乎被type cast了。
为什么不是绑架马东锡呢？说实话没有刘德华那个版本好看。
把原来一部斗智斗勇的警匪片，生生改成了血糊糊惨兮兮警匪死了一箩筐的动作片。
毕竟是翻拍，对于国内观众来讲确实无趣又过时，无非是看另一个国民级演员重新演一场大家都知道结局的故事，至于过程又能有多与众不同呢？适合拆成3分钟×30集的网络小短剧。
勉强算是及格了吧 女绑匪身材蛮好 找个形似王千源的不顶事 没抓住精髓 为了弥补不足 最后让黄政民来个ptsd也是挺离谱的 不是戏离谱 息影 ptsd都合情合理 问题是为啥要拍这个…导演要表达啥呢 是为啥做铺垫么……
本片翻拍最不成功的地方，就在于依旧无法跳出韩国犯罪类型片的套路，而走出写实片的创作风格，反派一号神似王千源。
改的挺好的呀，剧情设定真不错，反派变态，政民教科书般的演技，就是整个框架没展开，警察线再多点…
看完吧都不好意思多提，推荐的话是一句说不出口，我甚至觉得这么比起来，从邪恶中拯救我好像也不是不能上四，总之是很糟糕的。想说适可而止吧韩国人，别再消耗黄政民了，没有他这片儿就是一星。
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