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".
这色调、这烟火、高司令这惜字如金的表演…感觉还没走出银翼杀手的片场。
可能罗素兄弟被漫威折腾够了，想拍一部无脑爽片，恰好流媒体不需要编剧。高司令帅的，安德玛美的，在银翼杀手2049之后再看到两人同台还不错。
看完想了想这片到底有什么记忆点，维也纳电车大场面勉强算一个，美队演的反派也勉强算一个….. 没想到罗素兄弟耗2亿刀巨资就拍了这么个玩意….连阿玛斯这次都没有惊艳感，而且类似的情节看过八百遍都不止了。
普通爽片（也没很爽），Gosling依旧令人心动，Chris Evans搔首弄姿、秋波暗送真是骚死。
很无聊，昏昏欲睡。没有盾牌的美队，啥也不是。
斥资两亿美元啊，好一部洗钱大片啊。美队真适合演反派。高司令有REESE那路数，但是还不够深沉但是更面瘫，所以K那个角色真适合他。打得还行，但是情节和双子杀手一个毛病，大概落后时代十年
看到出 大制作！ 不过有够烂的( ̀⌄ ́)
可能罗素兄弟被漫威折腾够了，想拍一部无脑爽片，恰好流媒体不需要编剧。高司令帅的，安德玛美的，在银翼杀手2049之后再看到两人同台还不错。
一半以上的时间都是黑乎乎的，你让我看毛线啊
可能罗素兄弟被漫威折腾够了，想拍一部无脑爽片，恰好流媒体不需要编剧。高司令帅的，安德玛美的，在银翼杀手2049之后再看到两人同台还不错。
这色调、这烟火、高司令这惜字如金的表演…感觉还没走出银翼杀手的片场。
但是剧本真的……应该是用脚写的，毫无新意，老套无聊。
真的是無腦片，無腦到劇本完全沒打算要好看，就人帥場面大就好，如果沒有雷恩葛斯林真的是大爛片，但無奈的是他真的很帥，只看他就值回票價。
瞥见黑幕特工危，街头乱战瓦砾堆。外包小哥瞎指挥，最后身丧把锅背
相当精彩，审美风格和《新蝙蝠侠》类似，信号弹、手电筒起舞打斗两幕尤其。叔本华和西西弗斯。
能看出来确实是花了钱了，两亿美金是真真的拍出了几场漂亮的动作戏，司令和美队也尽力了，就是故事太老套了，看着倒像2002年的电影。
爱嚼口香糖，穿42码鞋的高司令，猛斗黑化contractor 美国队长。这高速节奏是Jason Bourne 后很久没见了。前面两两之间互怼的台词也犀利对讽，听着特享受。期待系列成型！
应该有续集吧！文字可以忽略
其实吧，打斗戏爽点都在，罗素的动作场面确实还行，但除此之外都啥。如果真的拍成不计较剧情的爽片也就罢了，偏偏罗素认认真真在交代漏洞百出的剧情，认认真真在塑造扁平的人设，让每个角色做自以为很聪明实则很迷惑的行为，导致观感直线下滑。不会讲故事就别讲，世界上有很多不需要脑子就能看得很爽的爽片，望所有爽片导演周知。
网飞肯定有个什么剧本机器人，每个角色、每个桥段、每个镜头都有无数蓝本。当然了，高司令还是很帅，足以让我看完。
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