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".
过气的尼古拉斯.凯奇，演过气的尼古拉斯.凯奇。就像过气的迈克尔.基顿，在《鸟人》中演过气的飞鸟侠，过气的刘青云演《我要成名》，都有一种推开心魔、直面落魄的残忍。这么多年来凯奇在烂片堆里打滚，但说句良心话，哪怕再低的成本、再小的制作、再烂的本子、再不起眼的角色，凯奇也从未敷衍以对，总是拿出他十足卖力的表演，决不会缺斤短两。片子虽烂，他从没烂过，还是那个一声Action，随时鲤鱼打挺、满血复活的凯奇。从这个意义来说，凯奇从未过气过，非常吊诡地，将过气变为一种“传奇”，以一种过气的方式，维持着他的不过气。顺便说，《变脸》《帕丁顿熊2》，也是我的5星心水。
6分！印度电影最大的感觉就是视觉冲击力非常强烈，在印度电影里，没有什么事不是一场歌舞不能解决的。这部电影讲述印度在独立之前被英国殖民者残暴统治时期下印度民众的反抗和崛起。故事素材挺好，就是影片中的神奇之处让人惊掉下巴，印度人已经自恋到这种程度了吗？漫威里面的个人英雄主义跟这个相比简直就太含蓄了啊，只要仇恨到位、眼神到位、情绪到位，剩下的就交给导演和特效吧，不需要逻辑，达到目的就好，效果一样的。我就是来看肌肉男和歌舞的，拉朱穿上军装是真的帅啊，比姆打老虎一手好活，独闯守卫森严的总督府从地牢救出兄弟，还能把拉朱扛在肩上飞檐走壁，躲避枪林弹雨，徒手接住高速飞来的摩托车还能给扔回去。最后哥俩凭一个辆燃烧的摩托车打爆总督府简直比超人还神，看着就很解气。不管怎么样，无脑爽片看着就是令人愉快，开心就好。
蛮神的电影，动作团队可以来中国指导某些国产剧组武打的水平。雷、爽、感人集于一体，只有一杆枪也要带团队守卫土地的爸爸真的蛮伟大的。
精彩都在花絮系列。PS. 两个可爱的CIA最后都死了吗？PPS. 真的需要补看帕丁顿熊2吗？
#豆瓣电影
我想知道印度电影有低于一个半小时的吗…太gay了 每次跳舞的画面出来
凯奇演凯奇，荒诞又离奇。不少调侃及自我讽刺，主线简单串联任务冒险动作搞笑面面俱到还有大量彩蛋及致敬串联代表作，尤其是辉煌90年代。为凯奇量身打造若非本人主演则无如此出彩，无人可替代。更搞笑的是帕斯卡的富豪充当现实中狂热迷对凯奇如数家珍收藏品太离谱。除自我娱乐外，更无忽略喜剧背后的荒诞与现实问题，在力不从心及时过境迁后，经历个人危机起伏如何找回自己/做自己，凯奇演自己，讽刺为钱工作，大方承认如今娱乐业早已变态扭曲人性，做任务不如往日反闹笑话，做英雄反成丑角。自己消费外，不仅是角色重振旗鼓更是有观看意义，只有认真审视及反思自己，如02年代表作《改编剧本》解构自己，才能“演好自己”。这类题材会随好莱坞改朝换代而出现，解构及经典角色再创作，若有续集建议多拉几个过气大明星一起“自己演自己”。
故事挺俗但观影体验还不错？各种调侃自己&迷影烂梗，不允许这么说《卡里加里博士的小屋》哈！最后淡出银幕的处理挺像《瞬息全宇宙》，海报也好像，商业片同质化……？【恭喜凯奇喜提水仙，当然故事基调也挺给的（x）】
精彩都在花絮系列。PS. 两个可爱的CIA最后都死了吗？PPS. 真的需要补看帕丁顿熊2吗？
牛顿和阿基米德的棺材板都压不住了！什么力学，重力，在阿三眼里都是浮云，比抗日神剧还牛，
《帕丁顿熊2》是影史上最好的电影第三名，这位中国人民的老朋友玩得开心就好。
《帕丁顿熊2》是影史上最好的电影第三名，这位中国人民的老朋友玩得开心就好。
印度版抗英神剧，就是不知道白人妹子为啥能欣然接受同族被屠的？
我真是看得太满足了。虽然有些情节略显幼稚和简单，但还是想推荐。太棒了。
八分不解释，不看跟你急:）
而这种歌舞元素让他们的导演在动作和造型设计上面的功力尤其出众 值得借鉴
大概一个月前去看了会员提前点映，影院在一个观众坐席下藏了一个片中同款抱枕作为惊喜，真是将自恋照进现实😂
RRR是《水与火的故事吗》翻译过来，水火不相容，反抗与压迫；印度电影无歌不嗨，唱着歌、吹着风，自成套路；狱中“人都有资格努力，但不应该期待结果”；瞎几把拍着嗨，和中国版的战狼比更扯
抗击殖民的神话书写 明星效应 特效动作高潮迭起 爆款配方全齐 天时地利人和 托莱坞再创辉煌
特效夸张，神力无边，不过这种荷尔蒙的电影看起来确实代感呀，看看人家的爱国电影，作为一个外国人都觉得热血沸腾，难怪票房高了。
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