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".
可以毫不夸张地说，这就是真人漫改系列电影的巅峰之作。
听说其实终章要先看追忆，所以一直等着追忆出了才看，和原来OVA还是差了一些，但是因为都看过所以感情叠加起来还是有好些震撼。有些瑕疵，斋藤和剑心的少年感都欠缺，也可能是眼里少了少年的光而显得过于成熟了，雪代巴的成熟体现的也少了几分，只能说这是一部真正的漫改电影，足够尊重原作，但对于路人可能还是没有那么容易get到追忆篇原有的那种复杂感情和刻骨铭心。
杀手的感情生活。PS：女主木讷的像个机器人。
结尾和第一部形成了完美闭环。
新撰组剑术考究的还原和杀人剑更凌厉的动作设计，这血量才有剑戟片的样子嘛！桂和高杉晋作惊喜现身，附赠和总司的一战不能再心满意足，部分原作突兀的台词和桥段做的修改好评，结尾扣分但诚意收到了。
这部节奏真的不行，有为虐而拖感，尤其是关键情节人诛篇都有讲的情况下。巴的拉扯感塑造得不够。就为系列情怀加颗星吧。
好多世界名画。比漫画高两头，比动画矮半头吧。
7.5分。怎么说呢？感觉电影有些部分根本是多余的，比如新x组的打斗对电影根本没什么作用。而且为什么感觉电影到了一小时半都没讲清楚为什么剑心对巴的感觉……到巴死了都感觉还是差什么感觉……到最后火葬才get√到feel。(虽然是漫画改编，但我不看漫画还是感觉怪怪的)(仔细想想是没有对巴刻画，就只讲她和剑心的日常，导致情感不饱满)
三星半吧，主要是动画追忆片太经典了，无论是画面，配乐，主题内核都很牛。巴这个角色太矛盾和复杂了，他们之间的感情不单单是爱和恨，她是剑心的刀鞘，他是她对未来的期望。村花在我心中，并不适合，演得有点木。
5星送给这部漫画送给这个系列送给我自己
又想起来看漫画时候的感觉了。砂糖的剑心很厉害哦。
对于历史太不了解，不确定是不是我观影体验一般的原因。The Final和The Beginning一起看完了才来评论的，顺序上还是先看了The Final。最让我Wow的还是The Final里面的各种打斗，尤其是最后和雪代缘的那段，真是全系列剑心被虐得最惨的一段打斗了，非常肾上腺素爆升。但是这几部看下来还是捕捉不到历史背景和人物动机，很难说真正去代入共情，这也就对这些精彩打斗的感受打了折扣。至于The Beginning，重要情节全在The Final里提过了，再看一遍详细版也没有增加什么，只觉得有些多余。最后，在The Final里剑心终于告别过去牵起了身边人的手，也算是对观众的一点慰藉吧。
武井妹子也没出现（现实原因？不过在角色加成下，村花本作气场已经强势碾压了。故去的前任是永无法超越的存在。。（虽然面瘫和不动声色演技也就是看客的一体两面，砂糖同。。
用最伤感的The Beginning作为The End，节奏虽缓慢，却并不觉拖沓，情怀满溢。。而之前觉得逆刃憋屈的观众，也终于见识了那个传说中刀刀见血招招致命的刽子手拔刀斋绯村剑心。。
终于可以放心死了 以及二人对手戏居然真的有姐弟感 令人感动
作为系列最终和追忆篇的真人版，真的太让人失望了。跟人诛篇一样节奏平且散，感情戏毫无感情。情节上删掉了剑心下山前跟比古清十郎的对话，莫名其妙加了些好像很emo的台词，原本探讨个人命运和时代洪流的悲剧感被削弱了很多。
本来以为会滑坡，毕竟ova追忆篇一贯被称作神作，但是电影版竟然不落下风。然后终于看到天诛人斩时，剑心有多凶狠凌厉了，相比之下，维新以后战斗力下降的厉害。好看，这系列彻底结束了吧？期待国内能引进，想去电影院看，然后特别可惜电影版没了动画版里，维新大业成功前夕，高杉晋作吐血而亡的悲壮，但是见到了，剑心与冲田总司两个绝顶高手之间的对决，好看
血雨腥风的场面做得稍简略 最后雪中戏氛围十足 整体动线明朗 拔刀术的展现好 佐藤健的面容稍显老态了都 人诛篇很适合 可追忆却需要更年轻的绯村 不过文戏武戏都在线 江口的斋藤依旧不错 高桥的桂有些儒雅不足 p.s. 绯村前半段靠瞪眼来凸显杀气的方式 想来也没有更好的办法了 _(:з)∠)_
纷乱如麻的时代背景下，权利和野心冠上“守护幸福”之名，两个人也好，一群人也好，不过是被利用的工具罢了。
和同类的古装历史武打片比，演技和主题深度都不算最佳，日影演员的漫画式演技风格结合本片的漫改类型属性还有些尬，但放在日漫改编真人电影里就是天花板了。一些剧情细节的改编也微妙改变了角色的行为性格，结合演员既有的外形气质也不是不能接受。不知道会不会有星霜篇。多年以后再看除了唏嘘这片真是好典型的东方古典剧情梗之外就是种田治百病：多种点萝卜，身怀绝技的中二杀手都能矫成安贫乐道的良民。
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