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".
即韩国艺术电影超越中国之后，中国的电影工业也要落后印度了嘛?
总感觉充斥着美帝主义高高在上的感觉，你紧跟时事，抨击现实，都能理解，为国奉献的老兵，落得一身病，你让人家退役，保险退休金全剥离，可，为了生活，美国人没有储蓄习惯确实是个问题，不能因为失去工作，马上生活就陷入这种困顿，也能理解你是为了铺垫，人去找出路，私人武装，雇佣兵原来在美国这么能放到台面上说，其实感觉各种方式都有利弊，第一次任务，就是充斥着背叛，一番磨难，回到美国，几句话让兄弟为我卖命，你杀了上级，但是你单打独斗咋玩儿的过搞平台的，你在德国杀的人，不讲你美国人，你杀的科学家、你杀的警察，每个人背后都是一个家庭，都不讲，就讲男主回归家庭，不知道是篇幅不够，还是彻底的蔑视。
人活着要搞钱，搞学习，做这种事情就别和好友说话，希望有一天这种人会爱上活着，不要老是好emo早日经济独立早日逃离一切 不幸的源泉都是因为生理性的反胃对这种烂片中的隐藏的主题。人类社会是巨寄生，鸟类的寄生是省却自己筑巢育雏的时间，将自己的蛋产在别种鸟类的巢里、让别种鸟类替自己育雏的行为。寄生的鸟蛋很快就会孵化，会把宿主的蛋全都扔到鸟巢外面去。虽说这种行为也是为了生存，但总让人感觉太过冷酷。而类似栖息在非洲大陆上的向蜜鸟(Honey Guide)，甚至会用嘴叼住荆刺，去刺杀宿主的幼雏。
图个乐，印度版的升级＋白宫陷落 动作设计的可以，娱乐性不错
那些说"爽"的人,你们确定你们真的知道什么叫"爽"么?你们真的接近过"高潮"么?
动作戏挺OK的，就是剧情稍微莫名其妙了点。
人物介绍：美国东厂；故事梗概：任务失败；塑造人物花了半小时，又花了半小时主角进入任务…然后电影已经演了大半正题才刚开始…然后火速收尾…
动作戏挺OK的，就是剧情稍微莫名其妙了点。
电影前半段对退役老兵的处境和人物刻画还是不错的，但是后半段太多逻辑不通的地方了。
前半段被裁再就业养家还挺感人的，之后感觉有点扯
前半截拖沓 低配版谍影重重 男主和马达也很像，典型的被BOSS套路的动作片 快进看看可以
战术动作还是牛逼的 可惜印度片的专场和剧情总是这么让人无语。。。。
「一张椅子拯救了整个德里」，复仇故事的第一千零一种讲法，印度版本的「个人英雄主义」超英电影，「宝莱坞」确实越来越有点「好莱坞」内味了。电影视觉效果不错，创意虽不新鲜但蛮精彩，AI附体+「毒液」似的对话也算妙趣横生。不过三哥意淫的本事倒是越来越强大了，前半程所有的铺垫都是为了解释「超级英雄」的诞生并非基于幻想的「神话」而是基于先进的「科技」，紧跟潮流。而植入芯片的意义，也仅仅是为他所有的「开挂行为」做一个「科学解释」而已。这种赤裸裸的「民族自信」倒是像极了美国人，只不过美国人是真的有科技为依托才敢如此「造次妄为」。而印度，又有什么呢？
虽然都是玩好莱坞剩下的，但不得不承认比咱们玩得好，起码比战狼好，第二部估计恐怖分子的老爹要回来替儿子报仇了
Not bad.
没什么起伏，动作戏还可以，就是最后反派死的太快了，连个打斗都没直接秒。
一部冷静、严肃的谍战片，拥有出色的卡司阵容，克里斯派恩很好地演绎了一位饱经摧残的美国士兵。整体叙述有条有理，可以跟《藏身之所》相提并论，非常值得一看。
6.5分。跑到另一个国家去当街开火，敢这么干的除了美国佬的确是没谁了。问题是主角都已经去干黑活了，还要加个所谓的拯救世界的由头干嘛？？这点觉悟都没吗？偏真实向的枪战场面还算不错，其他么就没啥可看的了。
这几年的电影因为COVID-19的原因？逻辑呢！是制片方认为观众智力会下降，还是他们比以前更蠢了。BTW Chris Pine显老很多，停车场楼顶的对白能+1星
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