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".
限于分级原因，这一部本该血腥很多，但是最后都靠CGI了。
分了好几个周末看完了 漫改电影的画面节奏真的很慢呀 村花有很像巴！再次感叹本片打戏的流畅度...
今年看过最唯美的爱情片，画面绝美，张弛有度的节奏把握得很好，打斗部分利落畅快，缓慢抒情的部分也一点不觉得拖沓，情感层层递进水到渠成在无声中一起努力守护乱世中平淡而脆弱的幸福。终于看到一个主动去爱人的剑心，看到了剑心的温柔。最后巴在剑心脸上刻下刀痕的一幕感人至深，“就算你手中有刀，我也不会伤害你，我唯一不会伤害的人就是你”
追忆篇其实就是用来丰满剑心这个人物的，用他背负的过往来营造悲情浪客的形象，同时也作为他觉醒的一个转折。开头的杀阵还是很精彩的，动作干净利落，后面他和巴的情感线缺了些层次，尤其巴这个人物没有表现出复杂矛盾的感觉，如同一头陷入斯德哥尔摩症候群的样子，洼田正孝太苦了也，像是一个不愿死的龙套在演绎八百万种死法。
大家好深沉 女主一家好悲剧 剧情慢得好捉急
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
想守护天下人的幸福，却无法守护心爱的人的幸福，心疼剑心……
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。。
取名“最终章 the beginning”，可能因为这是拔刀斋的最终章，却是浪客绯村剑心的开始。
原作得是初中时候看的了，真人电影也算是圆满结束，这部比人诛篇明显剧情充实多了，但村花实在不是我心中雪代巴的样子……
我永远爱浪客剑心真人版…少年意气的剑心，隐忍迷茫平静幸福心碎而后坚定的剑心，十字疤痕，是约束也是救赎。想给砂糖一百分，每一分钟都让人心疼。还是遗憾电影节没抢到票，雪地那几场太美了，要是能大屏幕看该多好啊。
先看追忆篇。非常写意，应该是五部里面最写意文戏最多的一部，且最有正剧风。bug有瑕疵有，但不影响整体，成功勾勒凄美的情感，刀糖齐发。动荡的时代，渺小的个体，时代洪流冲刷剑与心，爱恨成全具体的人，而非工具。要打戏有打戏，要吻戏有吻戏，一个字：好，两个字：很好，三个字：非常好，四个字：我很满意。清冷少女vs野性少年，磕生嗑死。无论是浪客绯村剑心还是刽子手拔刀斋，他都是巴心爱的男人。白月光照耀他整个生命，死前那一刀是爱和守护，封印剑心的嗜血与疯狂足足十年——甚至更久。至于下一个、下下一个十年？交给薰同学了。
除了觉得几个知名演员演着演着又蹦出来了他们自己以外都挺好的，打斗精彩，文戏也让人泪目，那种被命运摆弄的无奈感真的绝了！
即使抱着很高的期待值去看，也不会很失望。冷色调营造的时代沧桑感，系列最写实和最冷峻的血腥场景，还有“一切尽在不言中”的眉目传情，都让本作成为了完成度最高的漫改（没有之一）。也许作为动作电影，剧情逻辑细推还有不少问题（反派嘴遁不下死手太经典了），但是作为爱情片，已经足够浪漫了。
这爱情戏太感人了呜呜呜，就算是俗套也好，历史部分也讲得好，剑心的面瘫也治好了，赞赞赞！
剧情很完整，画面也很好，是个很好的故事，也获得了与之相匹配的呈现。
制作很强了，演员们的表演也很好，就是细节上瑕疵有点多并且明显导致容易出戏。
杀手的感情生活。PS：女主木讷的像个机器人。
圆满了 追到这里 总觉得村花气质不够冷啊 可能我被OVA洗脑
（一声“对不起，我的夫君”，一语双关。）
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