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".
剧情紧凑，搞笑和抒情融合的蛮好，以及帅哥老钱与可爱狗狗！
很奇怪，为什么不穿插进一些战场的片段，那样岂不是更精彩更丰满？
安东尼·福奎阿怎么总是拍一些不过不失的电影，就像是行活制造机，让人看完之后觉得没什么亮点但又不能说它烂。本片完全是通过对话构建的场景，所以文本要很强大，可惜看到一半就会猜到真相，后面就了无乐趣了，男主塑造过于躁狂，把一个可怜人帮助可怜人的故事诠释得没有共情力，也是比较失败的地方。
三星半吧，感觉很平淡的一部讲述人与犬的感情的片子。
温情公路片，人狗之间的相互救赎，很温暖！人生总要有所寄托！
退役的军犬的伤愈复出的军人，一样的战后终合症，在送军犬去安乐死的长途跋涉中，感情和心理的相互疗愈。
和所有的公路片一样，这是一趟发现自我与找到自我的旅程。没有惊喜也没有惊吓
有点公路片，陆军游骑兵千里送军犬，格格不入的人狗最终培养出感情。情节有点拖拉，人狗互动不够。冲着查宁•塔图姆看的。
警察 火災 媒體 司法 精神病 官僚和醫保 太操蛋了 broken people saving broken people is not enough
这部片最好看的看点是查宁只穿黑色内裤在地上爬的部分😂
公路片，不太喜欢，这哪是喜剧了，说实话有点看不下去。。。
影片整体过于压抑，几乎没有排解调节气氛的情节，于是观感非常致郁，始终处于紧绷神经看着面容扭曲的Jack完成他个人的独角戏，剧情也算不上曲折，暴脾气警官过失杀人和同事串供准备法庭脱罪，在此期间被调到911通讯台当接线员，同时家庭情感破裂身心俱疲兼具良心备受拷问和折磨，于是ptsd+哮喘双重发作下接到求救电话，于是陷入情绪化，感情用事自我臆断，处理方式越来越激进和越线，当然这里还涉及到作为电话这种通讯方式的物理限制导致的信息茧房造成的判断失效，导致无法触及真相，亦可能产生认知偏差，结局更是一种如同自虐般的自我救赎。
给狗子给四星 给电影给三星 综合一下三星半
公路片剧情走向都差不多，狗狗在葬礼时趴在主人鞋那里真的看哭了。
出生入死的狗，精神受损之后要被安乐死，人类真是太残忍了，好歹也是为国服务过的，养一下也用不了多少钱吧，美国不是号称最爱狗的国家吗，怎会有这样的规定。
理性评论：一条狗和老兵的自我救赎，故事老套没啥意思。非理性评论：养狗人看不了这种，特别是和小狗分开的时候，眼泪哗哗哗的。多加一颗星给小狗QAQ
注入了过剩的情感，添上了多余的背景，人物在前半段过分专注于自身，让最后的救赎来得生硬，成功毁了原作的故事。
钱老板自导自演，没有突破，中规中矩，观感五味杂陈。典型的那种你说不好看还能看，你说能看又有点浪费时间，你说不感动又有点小心悸，你说感动又很难深陷其中的电影。钱老板+狗+公路片，平淡的犹如一碗佐餐的番茄鸡蛋汤而已，很温暖很家常，缺乏惊喜。
表面上是说狗狗的故事，其实映射的是整个老兵群体的生存现状。过程有些平淡，最后的救赎来的也有些突兀，不过意义大于剧情本身
3.5。剧情简单，但是人与狗之间的永恒感情不会停下感动的步伐
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