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".
1.5
撇开一些玛丽苏剧情之外，女主的三次逃跑更像是三次试探。关于怀疑和信任，其实人和人之间一开始从来都是互相怀疑不信任的，信任是一次次怀疑一次次否定之后才建立起，而后越来越相信。这是一部关于自我救赎和信任的西部风光片。
身份地位财富都只是表现，上帝能看到你的灵魂！只要你愿意，你就能体验到上帝眼中的你——“你就是最完整的人”！
风景和场景很美，看得出来是大制作，但作为没有受过西方宗教熏陶的唯物主义者还是很难理解男主的动机和人设，实在是过于不真实了。以及啃2小时14分钟的生肉真的好累
说服自己就算当风光片看都值了：画面美到帧帧如画，更何况还有满分音乐加持，把不接地气又想当然的故事升华为至爱言情。生活需要鼓舞，当各种现实题材表现痛苦残酷又无望时，这样的电影就像给咽不下的苦咖啡里加奶再加糖，小口小口啜出舌尖上的爽滑。
很久没看过这么工整的玛丽苏片子了。帅气痴情的男主。美丽而身世坎坷的女主。阻止他们在一起的世俗和反派。已经最后真爱超越一切的Happy Ending。连田园风光都分外迷人。
强盗之间无真心，陡然而富靠打拼。史学少年担重任，跟着大叔找黄金。
非游戏玩家只希望看个爆米花爽片，可是全程降智操作始终无法入戏，所有的动作真的如同儿戏，大场面也没惊喜，味同爵蜡的体验。
PS：主人公的俩子役很可以，一对比，荷兰弟都不是荷兰弟了。
谁会一直爱你且别无所求，唯有上帝以及他忠诚的子民。
蛮老套的合家欢探险片，这部里的汤荷兰还是有点小帅的
马特达蒙是不是欠了外债，怎么现在总拍这种匪夷所思的烂片。
荷兰弟的声音挺可爱，节奏不是很紧，适合下班放松一下
谁会一直爱你且别无所求，唯有上帝以及他忠诚的子民。
男演员演技有问题🤨剧情节奏也有问题🤨没甜到 一路看下来怪怪的🤨
特效还行，但是动作戏想向成龙靠拢，还需努力。
这片最大的问题是2/3的篇幅都找不到爽点，片子在铺设下一个目标给与观众的期待、和目标的实际观感总会相悖。譬如拍卖会、本期待的是里应外合的潜入战，然后就用中华春节档大电影的喧嚣抽了你一巴掌；第二段本以为是古墓丽影+达芬奇密码，结果克洛伊就给你喂了shi；好在最后那场‘空中海盗战’挺过瘾，可怜了两艘老船就这么被冲来撞去（看到后面有种早期《速激》的感觉）。除了小荷兰的造型和痞性，角色的还原度都比较高，尤其是沃尔伯格的苏利文。角色和世界观不崩是改编最难得的，但我想创制应该明白一点：这毕竟不是玩游戏，要用电影呈现“探险&寻宝”的快感，还得好好想明白怎么调和动作戏/头脑戏/哲学戏的平衡点，任重而道远。
我不需要真实，不需要符合逻辑，尽管是很老套的玛丽苏情节，但就是很打动人啊！至少很多年没看这一部电影哭得稀里哗啦了
被医治是个漫长的过程，却一生受益。
对此类套路化的电影已经提不起兴趣了，唯一笑出声的是直升机吊起沉船的镜头，500年的木头船怎么玩都不会烂，黄金重量跟不存在似的，这直升机太牛了。
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