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".
3.5 比起電影本身，更有趣的是怎樣看待這部商業電影作為荷里活最頂級的電影工業和大英愛國文化輸出的全力支持下的產物。某程度上來說很主旋律，和另一個打不死系列職業特攻隊最大的分別就是，James Bond這個符號並非只是明星制度的產物，也不是現在米老鼠超英片那種借漫畫外殼打造遊樂場帝國的流水線生產，而是折射了冷戰時代至今大英帝國在衰落的餘光下嘗試抓住舊日光輝的國民自尊心。所以Bond必然是父權的象徵，Bond女郎如何現代女權化甚至成為另一個007也只是男人的襯托，甚至故意模糊國籍的反派即使找了個人特色很強的演員，最重要的只有Bond，還有最後女王陛下的戰艦。不過還是要誇讚導演和演員，動作設計比Marvel之流強多了，美術（冰湖/毒島）明顯下了心思，劇情套路但接近3小時的片長毫無悶場，福永值得
When she loved, she loved fully. when she hugged, she squeezed the life out of you. When she laughed, the ground shook.
草根的逆袭，身份悬殊的两个人互相治愈，老套路的故事，看到最后还是有一丝感动的，人还是感情动物，一切都可以真诚感动。
很久没有遇到这样质量中上的轻松喜剧了～ 总是在不经意间逗人发笑，很喜欢女主在剧中的性格，一本正经的神经兮兮太可爱了
还行，但又不完全行；很长，但不是又臭又长。
最喜欢的一幕：新任007戴着一副炫酷的墨镜从容地开着改造过的豪车停在满身狼狈的邦德面前，问他：need a ride？从小学时看第一部到学生时代结束，赴邦德最后的约。执念让我熬走全场的人终于等到那句彩蛋，怅然于结局却也觉得再对不过，英雄主义如此，半生惊险却没有功成身退，浪漫多情却没有老婆孩子热炕头，只有孤寂且充满猜忌地呆在离幸福最近的时刻然后一遍一遍周而复始地走着钢索直至坠落，却也好过英雄迟暮，心有余而力不足地把酒话桑麻。
中年男人看这种电影总耐不住想入非非，还好结尾让你们清醒一点。喜剧和温情同在，做个正直的好人就好
打酱油的阿玛斯是真美啊。剧情不知道说啥了，捉捉放放就像在玩，风流倜傥的007变成了顾家男，为啥正反派都围着family打转，我不李姐...（再见，丹尼尔·克雷格）
可惜，丹尼尔·克雷格这五部《007》有着连贯的暗线却执行过于凌乱不统一，唯一值得欣喜的是故事在主题尚未走形时结束。那些在《007》系列中变得老套的阴谋诡计并非和以往那样用于造神，失势的反派反而引出神话主角所没有的至死的孤独，以及无能的父辈。克莱格的詹姆斯·邦德最后一次成为“007”时，他被赋予的任务是终结不断增殖的父辈幽灵——杀不尽的幽灵党，以及那些一次又一次来回着各种冒险之旅的前代007。这一代，我们看到的是面对母亲的阴郁而无能为力，但又一步步回归母亲所创造的世界，直到死亡才成为普通人的一生。
最近影院真是电影荒……而且也挺久没出轻喜剧了～虽然情节老套，还好结尾没有落入俗套。男主居然是「健听女孩」的音乐老师，真没认出来哈哈哈哈～女主长的有点仙儿啊，很有超模范儿
好久没看到这么暖的电影了🥹🥹，值得一个五星！
Ana de Armas的短暂出场太惊艳了，看似紧张焦虑同时又俏皮可爱性感，执行任务过程中又很专业且致命，以至于电影剩余时间都在想她还会不会出现，甚至如果她是下一任007我都会觉得非常Ok。
DC版的007一直在努力表达“007”不过只是一个代号而已，希望展现百炼钢的内里不过也是绕指柔。但如果代号真的不重要，最后又为何一定要将它还给James？这恰恰揭露这个系列最残酷和绝望的现实：半个世纪以来，它将特工片推向一个巅峰的同时也把自己困在了类型的囹圄里，想突破固定的形象和套路的设计，有太多的“不可为”在掣肘。所以我们最终看到的就是一部非常平庸的电影，和一个经典的、不再属于这个时代的英雄角色的迟暮，他无暇赴死却不得不死，点到为止的悲情，送给曾经为这个男人狂热痴迷过的所有人。
推荐指数：🌟🌟🌟🌟
更怀念老一辈的007们，交棒时不用被无脑写死。
都市童话，大明星x泊车员，关于爱的叙述虽然老套依旧动人，但是暗戳戳贩卖墨西哥族裔价值观实在不喜
非常大胆的桥段设计，又完全没有走脱，非常有意义的反衬出美国的贫富差距、种族隔阂在人性方面的距离。
每个演员都很配这部戏的感觉，剧情也能够自圆其说，很温情的轻喜剧。
好久没有看这么流畅的电影了，挺有意思的。有时间找原版再看看。
很久没看过这么放松的电影了，搞笑妹夫是快乐源泉。
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