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".
我们的祖国真的苦难太多，但是徐克这个主旋律为什么这么老套，吴京牺牲的凝固时刻，我差点没一口老血喷出来。
经由这部电影，我看到了更为割裂的印度社会现状，这部电影描绘的是底层人群，可是我看不到脏乱差的贫民窟，看到的是光鲜靓丽的美女与干净整洁的贫民社区，或许是电影的美化与宣传需要，故事还是要粉饰好看点，场景也要干净整洁点，可在严肃抨击社会痛点的同时，看不到真诚就很令人乏味，放佛只是为了满足印度中产阶级的向上诉求与精神寄托，文人界的怪异之谜：劝妓女从良，逼良家为娼。
电影也对印度社会现实进行全景式的展示：警察、妓女、政客、家庭关系、卖淫非罪化以及第四权——媒体力量等等，这样的印度分明是自信十足的。
比1好，虽然徐克给残酷的战争披上了一层浪漫主义的面纱，但作品整体风格更统一，动作场面更有层次感，文戏也撕掉了一层保鲜膜，显得真实细腻了很多。
2.3 除了那些演员的明显问题之外，确实有一些地方怪怪的。“高层领导的游戏”下，炸桥的无意义：都是上级任务。碎肉、火人与僵尸，喷火的车与不停流汗的冰人：世界真疯狂啊。以伍家兄弟为首对行动力的夸大后，有一些过于愚笨的犯错。强调一下定格：对行动力的限制。这次又是正面对刚坦克：无疑还是会被压扁。
看着我们一次次炸桥美军一次次修复我真的心态崩掉，在巨大的武器装备差距面前很多战士可以说是白白牺牲，尽管如此，他们仍是英雄！万里唯一的愿望是七连恢复建制😭
2022.5.4
非常玛丽苏爽文，三言两语就能说服黑帮老大和总理。女主的成功虽然说主要靠她强大的内心和智慧的头脑，但是很多时候还是靠男人才渡过难关。
评论里好多低分评论总结起来就一句话：“何不食肉糜？”。
但我也不是很支持甘谷拜的硬做媒的方式
没有上部长津湖来的感动，我觉得应该还是导演徐克的问题，浪漫主义加上不太切合实际的枪战场面，让我觉得有点出戏。
人美有演技剧情还丰满：大女主爽文就该这么演！
向英雄致敬！敌人从来不可怕，如今防不胜防的是背后的黑枪。。。
虽然有艺术化的夸张，但是还是让人基本了解到了那段历史，和那种悲壮
可能因为经常性的煽情，感动由主动变得被动就不那么感动了。喜欢平和和万里两个角色，话不多，行动就好。
每一次美军遇袭的爆炸声 都让他拍手欢呼
一位孟买红灯区的性工作者如何成为能与尼赫鲁会面、为女性权益发声的社会活动家的故事。就像看了一部用宝莱坞手法拍摄的奥斯卡系电影，还蛮有意思的
7.5/10。总体观感略好于第一部
一个大小姐被情人贩卖成妓女，最后依靠黑帮老大为妓女维权！印度女性过得很憋屈，在我们看的印度电影里屡见不鲜。挺同情。安排自己的心上人与妓女女儿结婚，质疑一下这样做的必要性。
现实只会比电影更残忍。为了新中国，绝不退让，就是我们的决心！致敬！
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