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".
不打分了，就情节来说跟大部分漫威电影差不多，没啥敏感的，我同意一个喜欢的up主的意见，这个电影的问题是完全阉割了男主角的性吸引力，选角导演既然知道找梁朝伟，就证明他不瞎，知道什么样的亚裔男星是性感迷人的，可主角不管从外形设定还是剧情需要，都没有一点魅力可言，也没有和女性之间的暧昧互动。男主角各方面都是ZZ正确的，只有一个问题，不管是电影内外，都没人想睡他，是故意这样拍的嘛？当然是故意的啦
中西真没法结合，至少在漫威宇宙中是这样的。
剧情很令人匪夷所思之外，老美还是对中国文化有些误解吧，但相比花木兰好多了。
梁朝伟指着元华的鼻子喊：我吃过的盐比你吃的饭还多。算得上年度趣味场面了。
今年内水准很高的漫威电影了吧，比花木兰剧情饱满，打斗戏更流畅。女主虽丑但人家有名有能力，希望某些人在嘲别人长相之前先去谷歌百度一下😁
我可能太久没进电影院看电影，被imax洗脑了，真的是太好看了！水迷宫那段很震撼；打斗设计得挺好；世外桃源，千与千寻；Awkwafina 也太好笑，太可爱了！Karaoke那段我真是笑出了声！
貌似是和电影在一起后的第一部漫威🤔
为了进国内市场也是拼了，结果还没进来。叽里呱啦的女主真的感觉又吵又多余，说男主像陈法拉无语了。东方祥龙对战西方恶龙，港普话和英文交流，我感觉整部戏都有种中西文化强行混合的焦臭味
本来以为会扑街的电影，结果意外地还不错；漫威为了讨好中国观众算是给足了诚意，唯一吐槽的就是女主长得确实不太符合国人审美，不过考虑到主要作用是搞笑也就还能接受；片中BGM和88rising合作好评，必须五星打满了[强]
预告剪的没有全片一半精彩，是我格局小了，这部电影真是超出预期的好看~依旧是漫威的大场面，大制作，眼花缭乱但非常丝滑的动作场面，适时出现的笑点，当然更少不了和之前整个漫威宇宙的联动…作为一部商业大片，尚气在剧情上做到了人物饱满故事完整，全片充斥着东方元素而且审美非常在线，尤其是后半部分，特效和场景设计更是非常惊艳，整部片子看下来可以肯定漫威对这部片子是真的走心了…只可惜，片子从选角开始就争议不断，一部全片有一半都在说普通话的好莱坞大片，我们竟然是那个不能在大银幕上看的…最后日常吼一句，梁朝伟真是连皱纹都好有魅力~
主角我觉得选出来也没毛病，是帅气的。整部电影看下来我是没有感觉到有rh，当然套路还是那些套路。世外桃源的场景也做得很美。
虽然一开始只有simu的时候还终于get到了一点他的好看的点，但梁朝伟一出来尤其是每次和他同框都觉得simu被吊打😂 乱七八糟的，但确实还挺entertaining。awkwafina真是有奇怪的魔力，明明演啥都是她本人，但放哪儿都完全不出戏。
文戏、武戏、文化内涵、服化道做得再精致，主题上再怎么迎合中国人，都藏不住恶劣的种族视角问题。
就算你会骑龙，有十环，和惊奇队长绿巨人谈笑风生，也还是住车库，坐公交车，用venmo，天天去同事家蹭饭吃
这片子的主要问题在于没什么趣味性，也毫无悬念
前半部《一代宗师：洪家铁线拳》+《太极3：塔罗村》；后半部《长城2》，又名《龙之战2》，下次基多拉被唤醒直接叫尚气去吧，哥斯拉可以在海底躺平了。P.S.一直以为老王平时画个圈跳出是去办正事，万万没想到是去地下拳赛赚外快 🤣
我忍着两张很丑的脸看完了这部电影，如果电影好看，主演长得不够赏心悦目我也勉强可以接受的，但是这部电影是真的烂，烂到有梁先生我都不想给3星。说句粗制滥造都不过分，连毒液2都不如，毒液2还能看，这部除了最后的神兽们还不错，其他可以说是无聊透顶。
ps：有的漫威粉真是人中跪族啊
In Loving Memory Of Brad Allan，一位伟大的武师。
剧情很令人匪夷所思之外，老美还是对中国文化有些误解吧，但相比花木兰好多了。
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