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".
小成本套路作。动作和枪战戏都没有突破，甚至说阿金斯的本领都没任何发挥。跟随镜头毫无意义且晃动晕眩又令人不适。唯一亮点是音效还好罢。看来叫 one shot 的都是烂片。
前面的动作戏还是很有战术素养的，但后半部就太假了。一敌五十，神一样的存在。
动作片用一镜到底的拍摄手法还真的是神！基本没什么剧情，就无脑爽爆的动作片
精彩的一镜到底，从头打到尾，阿金斯唯一的高分片了吧，虽然较多无脑活动靶，但仍然很精彩，五星鼓励。
因为摄影技术限制，这部剧的节奏异常饱满，观众仿佛加入了一场CS对决游戏，全程都在突突突突。角色的人物弧光不够立体，孤胆英雄的设置略微无聊了。
包括人物的动作站位，说话动作，都是电脑游戏风格
紧张，专业，刻板。阿金，当代影坛最猛白人影星，就是不知道以后会不会和郭达斯坦森一样投入好莱坞爆米花的怀抱。
海豹的征兵宣传片？！伊斯兰圣战士就这战斗力怎么还建国了呢？圣战士们被一枪一个还站直了往前冲，首领也不管手下的死活，面对四个海豹死了上百人最后还被反杀！是不是很熟悉的剧情！中国有8年抗战就诞生了抗日神片，美帝站在反恐前沿就催生反恐神片！
优缺点都很明显的小成本B级动作片。优点：伪一镜到底的拍摄手法、熟练的临场调度和斯科特阿金斯老师的打戏依旧拳拳到肉毫不拖泥带水。几位主要演员的演技也非常在线，基本上导演、编剧在片中想要传达某种情绪的目标是完成了。缺点：可惜文戏通篇下来也只有人物状态和情绪表达，信息量还是不够让很多事情自圆其说。再有就是和惊天营救同样的问题，过度杀戮了。敌人怎么也杀不完，反派就一辆军用卡车真能载那么多人过来？（恐怖分子绝对不止50人）还有几个配角后期就一直原地站桩射击完全不移动的， 非得跟那房间呆着吗？叫完支援赶快换地方啊，那么大个基地就没其他地方能周旋一下？这个就真的很老套了，强行写死其他人，就为了让主角开挂单独玩最后一分钟营救。
动作片里不拖泥带水不谈情说爱，简直清流。拳拳到肉，一击必杀。还不错。
近距离ak47打一枪，防弹衣居然顶得住
升级版的营救题材。枪战集中，女一太弱，场面不好，集中在岛上，没有大场面，海上戏都没有，像个CS。索马里行动可以借鉴。缉毒类的营救也可以借鉴。
同样是3星但比红色通缉令好些，这部硬核、干脆。
一开始一个人就能灭了一车人为啥还躲起来~~并且一车真能装啊~~
怎么也不说个最后结果,看的时候有感觉镜头好长啊,但没注意到是一镜到底
有点牛，全片伪一镜到底的动作片，但镜头调度远比不上《1917》。
一個美軍基地輕易被恐怖分子攻破，有點扯，故事太牽強了。
全程一镜到底，牛逼。美国战狼阿金斯长得好帅
三星半。最后的打斗居然看出来一点疾速特攻的感觉。
近几年少见的刺激枪战片。第一部一镜到底的动作片作为噱头，让我本身对影片的期待值高了不少，看完虽然和预期有点落差，但是作为像斯科特阿特金斯这样的迟暮动作片老演员，还是为了卖力演出和敬业精神多加一颗星。
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