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".
感觉有好几处镜头是在致敬《X档案》。虽然是一群外国人在演，但感觉是中国电影。
这么大个世界观拍个预算有限的灾难片多少有点可惜了。
爽就还行吧，最后一幕变得让人想睡觉，无人机摄影最后剪的不太流畅
也没有那么糟糕，只是这么多名演员凑一块不该是这个结果，没看浪姐的人应该不熟悉于文文，说实话本来还有一定好感，放到这部片里又觉得太违和了
一个抢过38家银行的专家，居然没有其他备选计划，就这么硬刚，枪战飙车也没什么新意
至于说那个AI化身巨怪，毫无疑问是新冠病毒。人类的始祖也就是上一代从未被感染过的人群而已。
看这种片子不就是看个脑洞吗
一星给Patrick Wilson。这个剧本也是AI写的吧，AI还需多加练习。
开篇节奏很网大，好不容易进入月球之后才开始变好看，结果居然是个AI概念，简直太扯了，哪怕换成暗物质都行。Ins的概设，痴线的逻辑，还强行《童年的终结》式结尾。重点是，貌似还有下一部！不过，爆米花感还是可以的
本片的奇葩之处在于拍得如此随意节奏却比很多电影都要连贯一气呵成，随意到你甚至不会为它动啥气，不得不说它烂得的确很有自己的姿态
有位老师曾驳斥我“迈克尔·贝是作者导演”的言论，其实我只想说，爆炸贝是不是作者导演，答案都在他处女作至今的所有影像里了。
前半段灾难片，后半段居然是科幻片...艾默里奇也就这几板斧了，山崩地裂凡人英雄平行剪辑，十几年前觉得新鲜，现在再看过时感、套路感非常明显，看一个镜头就知道下一个镜头要拍啥。现在人家都玩《不要抬头》了，把你这套东西颠覆了。开始一定是个疯疯癫癫的科学家先发现末日征兆，但没人信他，最后也一定是几个人组成的英雄小分队拯救地球。地球都要毁灭了，英雄还要随时跟家人联络，家人还要斗劫匪，并不想看这些节外生枝好吗。崩裂特效现在也已经是特效鄙视链末端了。至于后面的科幻部分，就完全是在瞎编了。华谊参投，不知道中方对内容提要求没有，反正塞了一位中国女演员，中国还为拯救世界贡献了月球车技术…= =
被豆瓣5.4的低分骗了，应该去影院看，当然是指的大场面、规模和壮观的景象，剧情还是比较老套，主角总是有好运气，最弱智的情节是那个将军阻止发射核弹，说我相信妻子能成功，因为她从没失败过！但是这些都可以忽略，毕竟这片子我看的是硬科幻。
典型美国大片。基本都是汽车追逐战。反制fbi的画面够大。但是整个电影镜头好抖，不习惯。无人机视角新奇，但是感觉除了炫技没啥用。
爆炸贝新片，看得人身心疲倦，浑身不适。蛇头蛇尾，只有中间环稍微支棱起来了一下。给三星嫌多，对不起自己，给两星嫌少，对不起两男主表演。爆炸贝这次新片，拍摄技法上极度恶心人，前段大量无人机第-一视角加各种速推拉摇移，三百六十度环绕旋转镜头，晃得人眼晕。中间车辆追逐戏以平均每三秒切一次镜头的速度，各种视角来回切换，伴以时不时的手持晃动感，这样的剪辑节奏持续了近一个小时，搭配上前面造成的眩晕感，明明是2d，却像假3d。 动作戏上只有中间步枪怼直升机、五辆救护车迷惑战术、黑帮反杀警察够精彩，开头结尾看得人脑溢血，没印象了。
相比于赌钱，抢银行果然还是来钱最快的方法，只要你有命花。
疫情期间可看的不多，还是给女票看困了。预告片看完基本剧情就都知道了。对话过多，推动情节乏力，手持拍摄镜头过多……emm是不是应该看精灵旅社4来着
我只能说，CG做的非常好看，建议下次不要再拍了。
人类有必要这么自大吗？看完这片想必能知道AI为什么要攻击地球了。#疫情时代观影指南
别的不说，这应该是鸽王SLS第一次出现在好莱坞大片里吧？
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