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".
整体节奏很紧凑，不过最后部分的剧情设置太中二了！
黄政民只是扮演了一个叫黄政民的演员，而并不是真的黄政民，哪怕对于中国观众来说，并不了解真实生活中的他，却也不影响影片文本上的寡淡无趣，翻拍再改编本身没什么，但吴若甫这件事上，或者说这个剧本最吸引人的地方就是他是真事，虽然比电影还电影，但它是真事的前提下，一切就显得尤为紧张刺激且充满戏剧性，而大陆的版本之所以优秀不仅仅依托于刘德华用自己的身份演绎了吴若甫事件，更有纪录片式的拍摄风格与尊重还原真实事件过程来加持，所以说这次韩版差的不是一点半点
翻拍的解救吾先生，重点确不太一样。韩国电影真的是自成一派，翻拍的一看就是妥妥的本地风格，破败的街道，底层的困兽犹斗，连反派也是很常见的，毫不违和的看似文弱的冷面杀手，突如其来的暴力也是恰到好处，最后还有个小翻转，我觉得是挺成功的翻拍。
本以为韩版改编 会在这种他们擅长的类型上添加气氛 可惜全无 还不如吾先生 剧中黄政民的设定也有问题 最后收尾更是有点故弄玄虚 失望了
马上2022年了韩国警察在影视作品里的表现依旧那么拉跨
这选角是真不行，这绑匪我看着都能30秒内把他打在地上跪着叫爹。
三星是黄政民粉丝滤镜。
正如黄政民被绑匪打得乌眼青一样给改的面目全非！这次韩国编导嗑药了吧？嗨飞过头了！什么乱七八糟的。
难得思密达那边翻拍了一部我国大陆的电影，最后电影的结尾做了个人英雄的改编，男主亲自抓住了绑匪。
好看，黄政民从不让我失望，那个小美女既跟丁青又跟李子城搭担，凑齐brother,梦幻联动。
从科学的角度 所谓类型片即是大众消费心理 由此可见 豆瓣用户留于大众之外 但反观国片 它又留于大众以内 哎 真真是 韩国人干出什么都不意外 中国人干出什么都不意外
亮点是黄政民最后出现幻觉的眼神还是挺吓人的。
翻拍了一个寂寞，这波我天朝完胜，吾先生的优点在王千源，人质的缺点在黄政民，不是他不好，而是他演了自己且没有跟他匹配的对手戏演员，韩国版把重点放在众匪，祸起萧墙的阶级感深入骨髓。
马上2022年了韩国警察在影视作品里的表现依旧那么拉跨
真难看，黄正民抢到枪扔了再逃跑！是几个意思！！！
因为是改编，和《解救吾先生》的根据事实改编就有质的区别了。那么就要看韩国人的想象力了，但是似乎也没多少，唯一好的地方就是黄政民扮演他自己。
完成度一般，没有惊喜，没有波澜，没有亮点~
虽然是翻盘解救吾先生，但和原作几乎没关系。改的面目全非，还特别无聊。流水线水平都打不到。4.5分。
有点儿对不住黄政民三个字，原版最出彩的就是绑匪，翻拍的绑匪有些逗比啊。黄政民，你要是被绑架来拍片，你就眨眨眼。
可能考虑到无法超越原版，用韩国动作电影一贯风格，这种演法给予主演一点颜面。
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