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".
如果是跟着主角一起变老的影迷应该会很感慨吧，科幻版的爱在四部曲啊！喜欢崔妮蒂这个人物设计，跟现实世界接轨啊。当然不太喜欢结尾的僵尸机器人，而且完全没有看第一部的那种震撼、进入一个崭新的世界的感觉，不过导演也自嘲了：电影已死。
take the red pill-- taken~
最后变成僵尸片还挺好笑的！剧中角色自己吐槽华纳非得让他们给三部曲做续集，可以的。吐槽自己的子弹时间也是很逗了。彩蛋 The Catrix!
正统续作虽很难得，缺少野心，也失去了活力，仅作为三部曲多年之后的轻级余震。一味碰瓷式地自我怀旧，危机感没有，目的性没有，更别提想象与革新。影片内外都显得格外徒劳，因为三部曲已经是完整收场。★★★/6
确实不太好，理由可以列出八九个。但是仅仅为了19年后Neo和Trinity的HE也是有意义的。这个HE和这个世界有了second chance来重建，太治愈我了。
Trinity的觉醒教育我们，女性要打破沉重的婚姻家庭枷锁，抛弃见鬼的老公孩子，摆脱贤妻良母的身份标签，放开手脚追寻真自我后，才能自由翱翔。。。当然现实里无论男人女人，绝大部分人还是被困在程序里混吃等死进行式，Trinity跟朋友说，我是不是很像她，然后被哈哈大笑时，我也挺想笑的，白日梦谁都会做，电影只是电影。
新特工史密斯缺乏了雨果·维文的那股桀骜冷酷的劲儿，新墨菲斯则显得有点奶油，龟派气功之万佛朝宗必然战无不胜，片尾的追车杀桥段神似《釜山行2》，“沃卓斯基姐妹”果然是拍了一部女性崛起、自由意志的政治正确电影----为爱发电，和谐共存（尼奥和崔妮蒂被系统复活的缘由亦是类似于《红色警戒》中的核电站）。其实影片最大的特点莫过于情怀杀满满。彩蛋则是吐槽人类电影已死， 短视频很有搞头，电影工业化，搞钱要速度，导演不妥协的官方揶揄活久见。事实上，《矩阵重启》不若称作《电池人的崛起》更贴切（本作实际上亦是基于第一部的框架之上）。吞下这颗通往“元宇宙”的蓝色药丸，大家一起来发梦吧，韭菜板载。“并不是所有人都寻求控制，就像不是所有人都希望自由一样。”
期待续集猫客帝国！！！
官方吐槽最为欢乐哈哈！所有的感触都借电影里角色的台词说完了，欢乐的吐槽部分，比如说看部电影还要补哲学课；和那些唏嘘的感慨，比如之前三部几他们拼尽一切做的那些事到如今仿佛并没有什么用, 一切都没变。看到多年后的尼奥沧桑的样子多少是有些心痛的。崔妮蒂还是那个在房顶上说Dodge this的酷姐姐。可是又有那么多人的生活因为他们曾经做的那些改变了！一些人追求自由，一些人追求安稳，一些人并不想思考只希望被告知该做什么。But, 所有的这些都是一个选择。总之看的挺欢乐的。再加上那些情怀，just love it. 希望再出出续集吧，崔妮蒂才觉醒了飞行的能力。另外，世人的确知道how to prison a woman.. Mr Anderson在这片第一个镜头的样子不就是这几天在认真等放假的我的样子么
真·meta电影哇。坚信爱的魔力转圈圈的电影人八成只有沃卓斯基了！
烂到我都忘了标记了。开头meta的部分还能看，后面就彻底是煎熬了。"巴尼叔叔"能加点分，最后一场里他就"巴尼叔叔"。
我还挺佩服拉娜·沃卓斯基的，看《超感猎杀》时就觉得沃卓斯基姊妹的个人风格较以前更强烈，她们可以完全按照自己的风格讲故事。豆瓣上不是经常质疑一个创作者怎么可能不考虑观众的看法呢，现在拉娜·沃卓斯基给出了答案。中国的读书人一直有个幻觉，就是这个社会（机制内）最终需要有能力敢于承担责任的人。现在拉娜·沃卓斯基给出了答案。当然中年人的爱情肯定没有我为卿狂的感官刺激了，早泄的年轻人觉得不燃可以理解，但爱的连连看也是需要勇气和耐力的，否则就是爱情神话了。
打斗完全没有新意，只是在不断重复自己，曾经是超前的思想实验和特效的标杆代表，如今就是狗尾续貂，旧瓶装新酒，又把第一部的模式照搬了一遍，彻底落入了俗套，也许这种系列电影总要被毁掉，而且只能由导演自己亲手毁掉。自嘲还是很不错的，但如今的好莱坞缺乏过硬的原创剧本是硬伤。说实话论有趣程度还不如《Freeguy》。
其实还是情怀满满啦，只不过从科幻片变成爱情片也是没想到，强行给三部曲的遗憾来了一个“圆月情节”。超前的理念使得三部曲在20年前是神作，Matrix至今依然无处不在，但第四部的确nothing new，情怀（又称“捞钱”）之作啦！老粉看得很开心，不要拍第五部了！
If seeing this most terrible Matrix film means we are in the most terrible version of Matrix?
IMAX删减版+4K完整版二刷。此片要是粉丝创作的同人作品就好了，我会盛赞影片大大超出同人水平的精良制作，并愉悦地欣赏各种同人级别的幽默段子，对影片向三部曲和华纳的吐槽致敬会心一笑，也会包容地看待其囫囵吞枣含糊叙事的剧情，送上一句：“不错，值得鼓励！”。可惜这是令人尴尬的官方正统续作。老三部曲那哲学色彩浓厚，需要好几本书来剖析解读的深邃剧情设定、超越时代的动作镜头语言统统不见。取而代之的是毫无特色的动作戏、充满自嘲意味的吐槽冷笑话、白兔黑猫旧元素、互相拯救老套路反复搬用，以及“电影变成游戏”这种难以自圆其说、一笔带过的扯淡剧情，都显出创作者毫无掩饰的敷衍，就像在说：“华纳给钱逼我拍，那我姑且这么编，他们也姑且这么演，你们就姑且这么看得了，别较真。”两个半小时的大彩蛋，只剩情怀。两星半
全片唯一的亮点来自第121分钟，尼奥一个标志性的帅动作没飞起来。
至于那些粪里挑火龙果籽的优点，诸如策划会上、分析师口中及彩蛋里对现时世界的反省，全都蜻蜓点水。尤其是人与机器共处这个“进步”，既已碰到了前作背景的核心，却没有任何展开，与其说深化，不如说是摆烂。
前半段尚可，后半有点编不下去但是我要硬编索性放飞的感觉。情怀满分，故事6分，表演7分。
居然和我预想的没差，暮气沉沉，可以拍，但没必要的感觉。感觉更像是一部没太多激情投入拍出来的同人作品。
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