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".
作为传记中规中矩，但她本身的经历很有看点。希望多一些这样的故事激励大家为自己而活着。
还不错吧，可以说是反贪风暴4衍生的网大，几个香港黄金配角撑起的一部电影，剧情比较简单，围绕越狱展开，这一部的剧情是上一部的狱长进来想越狱，结果当然是没有成功，陈豪打了个酱油。
最后暴露导演的野心了……整个IP出来……商业运作……6到不行
这又是奥斯卡金像奖的热门影片，演唱俱佳，但对我们无感
哎喲 這個拍得真是有點…感覺心思都花在了怎麼把名曲都塞進去。不過台下柔弱、迷茫、輕言細語和台上充滿力量的歌聲的鮮明對比很喜歡。原來這些歌都是這樣寫出來的。覺得那種歌詞簡單、大量反複的Gospel真是很容易能聽出來唱的人是否心誠。[瘋狂哭喊為什麼要把 I say a little prayer 拍成那樣的情節來展示啊，從電影一開始就開始醞釀來的……] [歌曲加一星 Jennifer Hudson唱功加一星]
满眼疲态
Maggie Q仍然又美又飒，然而剧情主旨太陈腐牵强，加上这个我真的搞不懂有啥意义的结局，两星不能再多。虽然不是什么佳作，但那些打斗场景还是很霸道地在我的潜意识里蔓延开来，成为做梦的素材🤪
Q姐确实老了，但是身段儿还在。片子总体来说还是不错的，剧情略显老套，但是也有一些小惊喜，比如Q姐跟伦勃朗打着打着就打到床上了……有些桥段看起来有点这个杀手不太冷，但是总体来说还是很独立的一部电影。
剧情确实有点莫名其妙，结尾也没看懂。
感觉每个娱乐巨星的成功和磨难都有相似之处。光环背后总有黑暗在攻击。黑人运动史几条线也在片子里略有交集。倒是片尾本人高龄出镜更让人感动。
一代大佬，在监狱为兄弟们争取每天多几格厕纸，堕落的够可以的。
演员阵容没得说，只是剧情我不想说太多，只能看个热闹
动作设计和几场群戏都非常精彩，人物刻画也挺到位的，整体上说是有超过平均水准的美式动作片，就是结尾情节的人物动机和逻辑性不足，有点强迫我们的感觉。
过程中没有感觉无聊，尚佳。
前面两部还没看过不知道怎么样，这一部反正不是很好看，飞速看完
标准的美式暴力片，漏洞肯定有，也没啥好评价
流水线上的作品，节奏挺快，应该省略了不少细节。
声哥挂掉那是真演技，最惨的是现在除了演贱男，已经没什么好戏留给他了
港产片就别太介意逻辑编剧了，拍摄手法镜头切换感觉很精彩，全程无尿点，笑点也不少，穿插得还行，吴卓羲的角色定位奇怪没啥发挥空间，黄德斌演技真不错，谭耀文根本不适合当大佬，就是天生的喜剧角色，刀疤哥死得好冤啊，前狱长这心狠手辣程度也是太夸张了，可能有人没注意到这是发生在96年的（CCTV时间），所以劫持人质逃跑成功的可能性还是有的，要不然换现在这年代，香港这小地方还能逃去哪？😂
故事本身应该不错 只是讲故事的方法有些一般
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