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".
当时在影院看到海报还挺期待，现在庆幸没有去影院。就这点故事硬是能拍2个小时，人物没弧光故事没新意，武戏很差。
感觉影片的基调被分割成了好几个部分，怀旧部不说，主基调，流行部不知道是不是偶然撞上的元宇宙，然后嘲讽部借此吐槽金主华纳，广告部联动长发JW彩虹S8……搞的像cowboy bebop总集篇，但是放得不怎么开，或者打个比方，如果前作是东邪西毒，这个至少要拍成东成西就的效果。neo和trinity的人设搞的像Hancock和Mary，还不如直接请个真·意志·smith和塞隆姐·并不是吐司机来演；另，期待续集Catrix大卖哈哈哈
剧情弱鸡，全靠范伟演技。场景、摄影都挺不错，但剧情比样板戏都简单，前半部分剧情简单到无，反复重复一次次扒火车镜头，浴室都能商议开会了，传情报明明可以在浴室传，偏偏要排着队在日本鬼子眼皮底下传纸条，逻辑不通，就为了让女角硬行加入？莫名其妙让她送个牌子去，然后再见面就说送牌子被盯上了，也只能留下加入，但最后打了个酱油，又走了。这都什么事啊！
为了看看范伟。剧情太简单，也没有什么波澜。盘尼西林的错误太明显了，故事发生的1939年，盘尼西林根本还没有大规模生产。
叙事逻辑什么都不谈了，就有个疑问，最后一关老洪等人为什么不直接炸掉火车，要打半天？？
虽说是导演的处女作 但看得出对镜头质感上摄影上都是很标准的学院派 但剪辑和故事架构还需要更多的经验 即使有两大影帝坐镇 故事和人物依然拍的稀碎 文戏太长已经超过了普通观众所能接受的范围 最后的结局固然壮烈 但不需要那么长的铺垫 范老师对人物是怎么拿捏到灵魂的
这导演真可以拉黑了
将一个有关freewill和现实真相的哲学命题，拉回到爱情故事，只能说格局小了。降低了MATRIX的能力和智商。（看到Barney就跳戏想说legendary）。开篇的矩阵嵌套是个亮点，虽然之前也想到过，但是没有再深入挖掘有点可惜（不然就成盗梦空间了）。Ps. 其中一些设定和衔接需要大家了解官方后续剧情MATRIX ONLINE里面的故事。（包括现实中的墨菲斯之死、矩阵的再次更新、机器爆发的战争等）
电影整体一般，张涵予依然硬汉，范伟扔手雷那里全场最佳，也就是赶上今年的百年大庆来一波红色经典回忆杀。
与其说演的好，不如说范老师一如既往，只是其他一众角色过于模式化。
想给三星，突然想想又不如以往给的三星的电影。说说我不理解的地方。反派上头是来干什么的？装逼的？老洪从头到尾没摘过的帽子又不保暖还和身边人的帽子格格不入，是他身份不一样还是要凸显主角光环？最后涌上来的日本兵哪来的怎么来的怎么一开始就不待在车上？这几个铁道队的成员怎么一口流利的普通话让人好出戏？……
以前看黑客帝国感觉矩阵世界的概念太超前了，现在看原来一切都是有迹可循的。
格局与内涵（从对机械未来的恐惧/缸中之脑/福柯存在主义哲学等，降格为《失控玩家》？《新全面回忆》？“和世界对抗只为与旧爱人妻一起飞”？），
范伟+张涵予结果编剧编了个这个东西…我承认感情很打动人，最后爆炸结束后的那段非真实场景所有人都在的那段我感动的想哭，但是就电影本身来讲，故事讲的扁平的可以，平铺直叙，没有高潮，缺少震感，人物都没刻画出来，小庄这个角色删掉完全没有问题，不是非得塞个女性角色，除了老王这个人，其他人没有记忆点，人设也不丰满，群像根本没做出来，两个多小时没什么情节，常鸣常亮跟俞灏明有区别吗？还不如魏晨的存在，总要给不同的人以区分度而不是单纯为了凑出一支队伍的人数
如果没记错，第一次用快进的方式“膜拜”一个曾经辉煌无比的大IP的重启。剧本的拙劣难以下咽，它就像一只黑带十段的瞌睡虫，屡屡在你强打精神的时候，就往你眼皮上狠狠地扎一道。很难想象，一个如今年届六十曾几何时叱咤矩阵的育龄男，可以跟一群九零后后程序狗围炉讨论如何写一个新游戏这么中二。除了屡屡消费前三作的所谓经典时刻和堆积所谓致敬彩蛋，故事不出彩、剪辑很差劲、动作不凌厉，可谓一无是处。沃卓斯基姐姐，您老这是怎么了？
雪一直下，气氛不算融洽。为何剧情那么碎，节奏还这么拖沓。
005号。中规中矩的平庸之作，打斗不爽，人物不动人，情感更是没有，至少是很难进入，张涵予说话的腔调能不能改改，太做作了，真难受。
剧情：5
以前看黑客帝国感觉矩阵世界的概念太超前了，现在看原来一切都是有迹可循的。
什么汉阳兵工厂试枪员，消解了严肃性。范伟老师炸人一幕好评，蔫人不到时候不吃人。
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