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".
导演既当控方律师又当辩方律师，不断地在陪审团的天枰上掺佐料：大钞、追车、悍匪、美女、宽带远程手术指导、开司米羊绒套头衫、带宠物犬上班还吃零食……佐料差一点，味道就会差一截。又，依据相对论的观点，只要速度够快，内分泌激素就会作用，瞳孔就会缩小，视野就会收窄，这时，导演设想的观众陪审团，其“度量衡”就较易被操纵了。
唉，到底哪个是真兄弟？
拍的什么玩意儿，就一如美国现在混乱的价值观一样。结尾导演当美国税务局是摆设吗？
一个月没出门两个月没进电影院了，五一找个现在外面正在上映的电影看就当过节了唉。豆瓣这分数有点离谱，现在引进的美国电影本来就越来越少，再往低里打分以后真的只能看国产片了_(:з」∠)_就是非常标准的好莱坞式爆米花片，开头的铺垫（有丢丢穿越去迫在眉梢）有点长导致整部片子的时长就被拉长了，而且镜头太晃看得好晕，上了救护车之后舒服很多而且看得很爽，黑白双煞+美女把警察耍的团团转hhh当然救护车上做手术这段确实太扯orz最后的结局还是蛮满意的，一扫之前压抑的气氛，满满正能量，多么感人的社会主义兄弟情（不是）。Jake男神真的太帅了！PS最后片名Ambulance里套LA让我明白了故事为什么要发生在LA（不是）。
动作犯罪片该有的元素都有了，发生在LA的抢劫银行剧情犹如在洛圣都玩GTA，
又翻了一遍迈克尔·贝90%的片子，应该说这位兄弟就是个及格水平。啥都过得去，但啥都不惊艳。
5，好乱……无人机视角是个好的想法，但是执行的就那样吧。
感觉是爆炸贝的玩票作吧，或者说是交活的，就整体都很迈克尔贝，还是那套东西，追逐，爆破，枪战，警匪，枪械，据说成本才4000万，能完成到这样对于刚认识的朋友来说足够了，意外事件，紧张刺激，公路追逐，无人机镜头飞的那叫一个帅气，可这种电影不能动脑子，稍微停下一想都觉得哪哪不太对劲，不过也没关系，看个热闹嘛
花里胡哨的运镜剪辑，要命的慢镜闪回，黑白背刺的兄弟情，第一感觉是一个黑色幽默拍得正义凛然。最大看点是冷艳女主。
为什么没标签了？美国电影 犯罪 爆炸贝专注制造肾上腺素，不过这一部爆炸少了，但是镜头更晃了…拉人入伙的时候晃可以说是制造不安感。但后面几乎一直在晃就不舒服了，话说现如今拍电影都要用穿越机了么…虽说快速移动的俯视角我还是挺喜欢的~片子的结局以美国片来说也是相当正确了…犯罪者伏法，起码也算是达成了一个最初的目标…不过个人还是更喜欢罗汉系列那种智力型的犯罪片…
美式主旋律也是主旋律，而且还挺尬的。剧本一般，拍得略牵强。导演这么大年纪了突然开启穿越机视角模式，很无语。
要是不拿无人机搁那炫还好，银行战斗还挺好的，后面一塌糊涂，有些地方还剪辑快速又混乱，直接开晕
剧情紧凑到没有喘气的机会，全程都在晃。如果没那么多猪队友，这剧情早就结束了…当兄弟情被套在了政治正确中，即便是兄弟也要选择正义。老吉这次的本子有点不太可。荧光绿帽子小哥最搞笑…eiza真的好美！
感觉比期待的好，主要是镜头水准在线的，另外BGM选的很nice～
The Rock那个桥段有点意思。典型的迈克尔贝的镜头，大逆光大特写大仰拍。对女性的审美也没什么变化。片子里的世界观还没建好就塌了，很多意图都矫枉过正了。有这些钱砸在不知所云的car chasing上，不如拿去做慈善。
没什么亮点，剧情也有一定的硬伤，但确实是适合在电影院看的片子，在疫情无片可映的当下，且看且珍惜吧
有“家人”元素，想起我上一个看的电影《坏蛋联盟》里的情感也是伐木累为主；而且和本片一样有飙车重头戏一样都是坏人身份。更巧的是本片这句台词（图七）：“我们回家吧/Let' go home”其中的【Go Home】让我联想起《坏联》里的高光台词：【Go bad？ or Go home！】——不多说，奇妙的感受。
其实特别像1994年的Speed，那时的警匪片是90年代event movie的标准模版。时过境迁，在当下定义动作片时，观众的胃口早就被吊高：只要不是漫威和IP作品，一律归类为B级片。这样的电影以后应该只有流媒体上看到了，且看且珍惜。
【7.0】比我预想中要好看很多，节奏和氛围的营造都属上乘，摄影上花活儿很多，就是结尾的处理有些差强人意。
我只能说女主真的很美 追车爆炸场面随便看看还行
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