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".
韩寒拍电影以来的惯常毛病一个没改，这次还完全失去了精神内核，太创作者的电影最终脱离了现实，也脱离了共鸣。
韩寒最好的电影。说三点：
前半个小时看着还能乐呵乐呵，再往后就越来越没意思了。
韩寒导演电影个人观感大致排名：《后会无期》＞《飞驰人生》≈《乘风破浪》＞《四海》。—— 2022年春节档的真人电影个人观感大致排名：《狙击手》＞《奇迹·笨小孩》＞《长津湖之水门桥》＞《这个杀手不太冷静》＞《四海》（动画电影则是：《熊出没·重返地球 》≥《小虎墩大英雄》＞《喜羊羊与灰太狼之筐出未来》）。
前半部看得下去，那种小县城小心思之美，后半部大城市大悲剧有点出戏，或者是不忍。人生到处知何似，应似飞鸿踏雪泥。苏轼是大家，说得轻巧。人生于世其实无力，做奋力状，也不过是大海里扑水罢了。
流媒上线2倍速刷了一下，为了看那个从旧城四方天拉到城市全景的镜头
韩寒的电影 一如既往的飙车...从汽车到摩托车 下次是不是可以飞艇了？结局真的让人不美好...也许这是现实 但是前面又给了那么多 不现实
角色不像傻子，只是这片子拍得像傻子。韩寒还希望观众也是傻子。
1星韩寒4星给摩托 摩托没拍好 扣2星 剧情都没有我居家看电影亲身体验刺激
韩寒你不能拿两个书都没读完的傻逼主角来糊弄我们，把我们当傻逼啊
连着看了两部春节档电影，主角吴京和刘昊然都燃起来了，真的燃。
从《立春》里的王彩玲，到《小武》，再到《四海》。他们的悲伤好像就从没改变过。他们活得真实又热烈，但生活最终告诉他们的是：你终究会被推着长大，把理想掩埋在乱哄哄的街巷，把青春丢在摩托车身后大片霓虹，然后平静的活着，吃饭，睡觉，和城市里的其他人一样，等待夏天再次来到那片海。
车队里的人渣进了体制。两个男女主角都是好孩子，孝顺，有责任，有梦想，能吃苦，能劳动（却不光荣），没想过走邪路。男主父亲回家，他也有疏离，却尽自己作为儿子的义务。但是教育排斥了他们，职业排斥了他们。社会分层固化了他们。没有机会变得更好，除非进入灰色甚至黑色世界。如果他们身在改开初期，或者会有所作为，奇迹笨小孩就是那个时代。甚至在乱世，或许也可以有作为，尤其男主参军。但在当下，的确很难。
不知所云，除了偶尔几句段子还能微微嘴角上扬一下
1、这部影片可以看做是《麦琪的故事》的中国版、当代版、电影版。还别说，我就吃这一套。
啊这个剧本零散成这个样子，我都无法控制我的不忍心不去责备了。韩寒这是践行了男人至死是少年的格言，电影写成了新概念未入选作文的水平——语句优美，辞藻华丽，词不达意——你看，我认识的字你不会组合。
打脸了，我对不起为这部电影付出的人，讲故事的技法很成熟，这一次韩寒应该找了几个好编剧，这是韩寒最好的一部电影，现实中没有那么多坏人，最残酷的是现实，是金钱。只是在看毕带着遗憾，可是欢颂不死又能怎样呢，两个人一样买不起广州的房，世界上最可爱的服务员，这个角色给了刘浩存，我觉得刘浩存演的不拉夸。你为了一个演员的黑点给一个电影低分，实际上只要只要这个电影可以上映，也许你就不该行使你那可笑的正义感。这电影，我觉得好看。
网播二刷重温，在当下这个环境里，又有一番新的感触啊。也许《四海》也会在不知道多久之后被大家翻出来，再次感慨他的“真实”与“贴切”吧。
剧情有点割裂，不过很多细节还是挺幽默的，依然保持着韩寒自己独特的风格，希望韩寒多拍一些这样的电影。
打脸了，我对不起为这部电影付出的人，讲故事的技法很成熟，这一次韩寒应该找了几个好编剧，这是韩寒最好的一部电影，现实中没有那么多坏人，最残酷的是现实，是金钱。只是在看毕带着遗憾，可是欢颂不死又能怎样呢，两个人一样买不起广州的房，世界上最可爱的服务员，这个角色给了刘浩存，我觉得刘浩存演的不拉夸。你为了一个演员的黑点给一个电影低分，实际上只要只要这个电影可以上映，也许你就不该行使你那可笑的正义感。这电影，我觉得好看。
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