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".
末世的背景设定，记忆谜团的反转，这些标准的好莱坞硬科幻元素放在今天确实有点套路了，反倒是爱情线有点东方那种“情不知所起一往而深”的感觉，反派吴彦祖的出现和消失的很牵强对白夹杂汉语词汇有点无语。。。节奏上也太拖沓没必要那么长
虽然是是个很容易预见发展的爱情故事，但Rebecca太美了
（68）期望太高，浪費了這一臉好演技⋯⋯喜歡城市因為海平面上升的設定，原來還能這樣通過VR YY 那些美好的年華，的確是，nostalgia
阿祖的普通话科普失败了，玩梗还有个logan officer不知道你们看到没有 故事虽然有一点点落俗，但我觉得还挺好的，也没什么硬伤 客观4星，主观5星，因为看到太多一星大师了，做点自己的贡献
Hugh Jackman和Rebecca Ferguson都是我喜欢的，可是这部电影的情节实在太复杂了，一部好好的romance里非要强行加入Chinatown和Blade Runner，吴彦祖的出现更是匪夷所思。
7.5/电影前面的慢节奏出乎意料的好看，丽贝卡前期谜一般的人设也很吸引人，可丽贝卡的人物转折太过突兀，而人设反转之后的剧情也十分拉跨
赛博朋克水世界。狼叔的内心独白和与其他人的形而上交谈全部剪辑出来，我能当听力学三年。性感，低沉，内敛，他为什么不做一个传教士呢？为什么不布道呢？为什么不聆听世人的忏悔呢？我想成为那个狂热又绝望的信徒。
对未来水世界的描绘近乎于预言。但除此之外，乏善可陈。人物形象单薄，情感缺乏演进，角色动机不明，剧情漏洞难圆。
这烂片有个超级大bug
210825.★★★★★★.最后半小时；特效外景。针对被大为诟病的片中大部分回忆场景都不是POV视角的VR影像而是全知的第三人称客观视角这个最核心设定的硬伤，如果①追忆装置会带一个会自动扫描被追忆者身体包括面容的仪器或给出扫描的动作，②除了被追忆者的主观视角所见以外，其他视角下的记忆里的物件都以乱码或者残缺不全的影像显示，或许就相对合理些。(speed.)
预告加上放慢的BGM本来还觉得蛮爽的 正片完全就是莫名其妙……
沉溺于美好爱情中的人们，还有谁又愿意醒来？
思念人是世界的一部分，没有那种悲伤，你就尝不出甜蜜。/ 6.9
丽莎·乔伊作为诺兰的弟妹，在自己执导的作品中满不了会带有一点诺兰家族的叙事元素。而我们也能在影片的背景设置和叙事上看得出一点端倪。
2021/10/20/1.金刚狼没了爪子战力下降得厉害.2.阿祖让我们见识了什么叫做英文里夹中文.3.BGM很好听.
狼叔这个蠢呼呼自言自语急吼吼恍然大悟的破案水平太醉了 感情线强行扯了一条颜值即正义 请各位大大放过Orpheus & Eurydice吧!
尽管故事讲全乎了，可还是bug太多呀。。。
场景设计的不错，但是这个故事到底讲了个什么？
3.5星，末世的背景，悬疑的爱情故事，剧本引人入胜，爱如火焰，可以温暖你我，也可灼烧殆尽
多好的New Noir题材啊，爵士乐布景服装都到位了，多美的Rebecca Ferguson啊，美貌但神秘的歌女也很有故事，结果就这？就这么一个拘泥于情情爱爱的小故事，连阴谋和所谓的“反转”都弱得不行。
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