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".
黄政民演的挺卖力，就是这故事特别提不上劲儿，有些地方很刻意，反派还都有些脸谱化。
在华语片范畴，我们看到很多电影把“刘德华”这个人和他所代表的形象，用得不错，这片子往小里说就有些浪费了“黄政民”。
从开头就知道质量了，翻拍不成功，还得需要像王千源一样的大恶人形象，完整的故事线
没看过中国版的，黄政民演的很拼也很真实，结尾处看到和罪犯相似的演员神情更现实
把一部社会片拍成了爆米花电影，韩国的考编更像是一部英雄片，不太真实，刘德华和王千源演的更好，全品高光时刻就是最后和新人合影，充分展示了黄政民的演技。
我觉得不如中国版的好，中国版偏纪录片，那种真实感更能让人紧张。这一版感觉演员还在戏里
这点让人不胜唏嘘
翻拍自中國電影《解救吾先生》,可以的,
黄政民演什么像什么，可惜最后却翻车在了出演演员上，痕迹太过明显不说，甚至有些用力过度……韩版《解救吾先生》，甚至于不如韩版《毒战》，匪徒的逻辑刻画甚至有些毫无逻辑，那种属于反派角色的魅力真的一点没有表现出来，正反双拉胯，这也是我觉得不如原版最大的地方了……
网络，原声，94分钟。
比不过国产原版，韩影恒久不变的定律=韩国警察都是猪
黄政民演这种角色的确是信手拈来，只是通篇没什么惊喜，而且看过综艺发现其实黄政民本人是比较腼腆的，有点出戏
3.5，虽然改编自《解救吾先生》，但是是套了框架，确实如导演所说的，着重点不同了。开篇引入其实已经很快了，而且铺垫的东西全都是有用且圆了回来，但还是有点不太吸睛，但追逐戏的节奏与紧凑感绝对能被称赞一下，绑架犯里的女生让人想起了毒战的李周英，但李周英更飒。剧中有笑点，但需要是了解韩影或者黄晸玟演过的角色才能get到的。整体叙事不带累赘，黄晸玟演技也是真的可，黄晸玟演黄晸玟本身，无法分辨何时是演戏何时是“本人”，所以“骗人”的那场戏，真的是被骗了吗，能说有又能说没有
经纪公司跟死了一样？？人质小姐姐是鱿鱼游戏里那个小女孩
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。
黄政民是以真名出演电影最多的演员吧（《舞后》也是）。
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。
穿插了很多黄政民主演的电影桥段，也算花絮吧，后来制服匪首时候有点太主角光环了，警察的枪都是摆设，舍不得开枪，结果被撂倒，靠主角去以暴制暴，女服务员角色毫无存在感，甚至都不如C罩杯印象深刻。其余几个绑匪也没什么有用的人设，除了暴力情节比较出彩外不如原版。
目的性过强，有一种情节推动只为了下一场打斗的即视感，不过还算合格商业片吧
没看过《解救吾先生》，94 分钟一波三折的倒也高密度剧情。不错的商业片
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