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".
演技实力派电影，剧情也有反转，需要静下心来看。
氛围营造的不错，故事的切入点和深刻性不错，但是各种回忆尤其是开头，还没进入正题的时候，显得混乱，各种阴暗叙事、穿插，让不习惯这种风格的人看的很难受，床戏全部剪掉不是问题。以及故事还是有比较明显的漏洞
演技没什么可评论的，还是逻辑。作为一个叛徒，最敏感的就是会让他查叛徒，CIAFBI不都是挑的名校生吗？所以叛徒是个傻子或编剧是。固定电话记录，谁都明白不可能是真的，所以叛徒这么做继续说明他是个傻子或编剧是。然后看到伊朗电话打手机，这得是多巧合比无巧不成书还巧，编剧太应付了。最后的告白，只能是谎言，对方不是核对信息只是榨取信息，都知道得不到也不会说信息，所以叛徒是个傻子或编剧是。但是去掉了这些，就又是个被官僚迫害的年轻下属报复政客的平庸故事，所以这个故事就不应该存在。
与电影很配的歌词：
男主太帅了，唯一的一星打给他。
一次恐怖劫机案似有内鬼，谁是内鬼？一对旧情侣再次相会，追忆往昔，真相大白。谍战与办公室恋情，都要当心背叛与出卖。
名为反恐情报题材，实则为宣传爱情……男主对女主那是真心挚爱，甚至违背了良心与职业操守，在两难选择时，始终如一。女主颜值身材一般，男主帅气型男。情节设置也比较跌宕起伏，印象深刻。
叫“为爱放弃一切”或者“中年人的办公室爱情”不行吗？
《宝刀未老》：All the Old Knive翻译成这个标题，简直让我误判了电影类型，还以为是反恐动作片，结果就是一爱情片。不过悬疑感还做得不错，大概类似于国土安全三集联播的感觉。整部电影在回忆部分的风格冷峻，在现实部分简直是各种加州海岸的绝美风光大片。但也正好展示了电影的内核，就是光鲜之下最后的落幕。
Lesson learned: 不要搞辦公室戀情
排雷。男主被要求调查多年前的一个劫机的案件。经过调查竟然和女主有关系。所以让男主去审问女主。然而男主女主曾相爱多年。现在的女主早就嫁为人妇。两人相约饭店吃饭。有点暧昧。一起回忆过去。男主也坦白了调查案件的事情。故事就开始两个人一边谈话一边回忆过去从头到尾的细节。当然女主也在飞机上。但是女主的电话曾经打给凶手过。另一边男二也被男主审问。后来男二打电话通知女主说男主来调查这个案子。所以女主也早就做好了准备。两人一起吃饭喝酒。慢慢揭露真相。女主在某天突然不辞而别。男主询问为何。女主才表示男主这个魔鬼。当然用自己的电话打给凶手被自己发现所以女主才不辞而别。现在竟然还想嫁祸给自己。 男主惊了发现原来被拆穿了。突然流鼻血。原来女主早就通知队友埋伏男主并且下毒。所以让男主临死前说出为什么要做坏事。
看到后半才看懂为什么叫两把老刀，虽然剧情很扯，但是Pine贡献了很好的表演，俄罗斯回忆的一小段里惊喜地看见了类似13年前Star Trek 2009里的表演
怎么能这么难看啊？？惊悚片一点氛围也没有，全是两个人的暧昧情感堆砌，所谓的劫机事件以及后续影响，全靠嘴炮和碎片回顾，无趣庸常，又臭又长，2倍速播放还嫌它墨迹，流媒体时代，烂片泛滥成灾。★
一直不进入正题，反反复复拖沓的伪卧底真爱情电影。
四星（7.9分）。悬疑气氛拿捏很好，劫机事件、民族矛盾、恐怖主义、国家安全危机，一系列宏大题材撑起了故事的前三分之二，吊足胃口，正期待一个悲怆大气的结局，没想到竟然归于男女情爱，格局一下从天上掉到了地下。故事性直降一档。导演技术是一流的，节奏把控完美，剪辑牛掰。表演满分。不失为佳作，值得一看。
《维也纳行动》。间谍不悬疑。
电影反转还是可以的，比之前那部承包商好一点，但是毫无动作场面我也是无语，完全是话痨片。不过漏洞还是比较大的，比如到底男主角的目的是啥、前面那么正经的训话也就对不上了，感觉看到最后就为了爱情而爱情。
与电影很配的歌词：
摄影美，音乐美，派派的眼睛也美，冲着惊悚或谍战来的当然要失望，是我的菜，片尾曲好好听，可是识不出。
深爱的两个人，因为爱和保护，走上了两条不同的道路。
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