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".
各色反派轮番出场揍人挨揍如同NPC，无一有前作光头东北混子般的人物张力。插科打诨的桥段依然让人怀念港片。
看看人家这演技！其他有些人还好意思说自己是演员吗？整个故事只基于一个场景，却足够惊心动魄，足够演一出完美的舞台剧。
顺延了第一部的风格，本着除恶务尽的精神，对凶残罪犯的直接打击来得毫不留情，没有任何拖泥带水，合格的夏日消暑爽片。
看似环环相扣，实则无脑爽片，想学ROPE只有皮毛。
雷纳德是一位手艺精湛的裁缝，一场火灾之后，他离开了伦敦，来到芝加哥，在这里经营着一间属于自己的裁缝店。店里的员工除了雷纳德自己外，还有一个名叫梅布尔的姑娘，梅布尔的父亲是一个臭名昭著的恶棍，背负着父亲的“盛名”，梅布尔下定决心要攒够钱，去看一看这个肮脏黑暗的街区以外的世界。
感觉看了一部黑白老派70年代的电影。全片在一家裁缝店完成，太适合改成话剧了。开头的几个twist我还有点hmmm觉得嘴炮也太好骗了吧。结果适应节奏switch off把他作为一部谍战片来看以后真的非常精彩。演技设定剪辑都非常一流。
“如果你不追求完美，就无法做出伟大的事情，但真正的完美是不可能实现的。”
非常惊喜的一部电影
7.5 封闭空间叙事范本，马克·里朗斯手到擒来。
精彩绝伦！好久没看到这么硬派的话剧电影了。Mark Rylance这内敛的演技太适合扮猪吃老虎了。
虚头巴脑，故弄玄虚，不值一看。女的表演浮夸，男的故作深沉。黑帮一群蠢货。
经常看到老裁缝脑内小齿轮在飞转。致敬Rope，以及老版水浒给林冲王伦劝架的吴用。
韩国人是真他妈会拍类型片！文本、动作甚至人物塑造都比第一集更简单，毕竟起点太高了，可还是不妨碍有笑到有爽到有被前作的情怀煽到；前后两个场景，前者虽远必诛，后者讽刺财阀，类型片公式稳稳拿捏了。第二部最大的意义，可能是马东锡用亦正亦邪的人设和铁汉柔情的暴力，证明自己完全可以把这个IP拍成韩国的“速度与激情”。
老派又老套，特地局限在室内，有舞台剧的既视感，反转也不那么具有吸引力。裁缝片确实都有一股精致感。
在杀气这一点上，第一部的反派远强于第二部，不是光靠凶狠就能演出来的。
没啥特别大感觉，可能是对这个类型腻了，也可能是设计得不够出彩。
④张夷帅依旧是搞笑担当，最后还cos了一把“哈尔滨张全蛋”，笑死；
④张夷帅依旧是搞笑担当，最后还cos了一把“哈尔滨张全蛋”，笑死；
比《犯罪都市1》更纯粹的动作片。孙锡久的反派太带感了，凶狠、残暴，至死不休，他天真而狰狞的形象给人极强的压迫感与窒息感。马东锡的爆裂刑警又给人提供了安全感和呆萌感。两者之间形成了巨大的张力。和第一部一样，动作场面凸显出了一种写实的粗粝与生猛，同时在尺度上也有很好的把握。升级之处在于，这部续作难度更大，密闭空间的打斗做出了突破。跟《犯罪都市1》联动的梗非常有效，笑果拉满。
教科书级的复古小成本电影，杀人全靠嘴炮，一个场景干了两个小时，全靠演员撑着。
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