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".
这个完成度超出预期太多了，斯皮尔伯格不愧是你！
只有音乐合我意 复调听起来此起彼伏 太爽了 || A Boy Like That 唱得太他妈好了 而且不像老版是有缩水 这次完整的争吵到爱让人失去理智整个转变过程 稍微舒服点点 (book人设就这样了...)
挺喜欢这种歌剧风格，男主角安塞尔长得好智障的样子，这样都被一些人夸成帅了？想想好莱坞70年代到2000年的大把帅气男演员，这货最多群众演员。而且蠢的可以，这么容易中计，那个撒谎的毒辣长舌妇真够坏，奇诺真的蠢。
预告就能看出缺失男主角cut部分的端倪 安塞尔的表演和肢体可能对于这个电影是有着灾难性的意义 我以为这还没完 最后半小时却亲自毁在了导演自己手上
充满了种族对立，女主的脑回路也让人大受震撼。把他当纯歌舞片呢，也不够好听好看。这种思想陈旧纯属虚构的故事，如果没法与时俱进提出新的思考，就别拍了。坐在隔壁的姐姐全程跟唱，我也能理解导演对这个故事有深厚的情结，但好歹编一点阳间的剧情。 女二在女主的衬托下格外美，她的裙子她的舞蹈都充满了阳光。
翻短评看到那个打两分，说厌倦了看西德拍东德的片，想看东德拍自己的片的......给我的震撼比影片结尾那个突如其来的爆头还要大。这人是太反智还是要去德国帮人家重建柏林墙啊？
罗密欧与朱丽叶中“错手杀死”变成了“怒火寻仇”，让之后的发展变得难以接受，男女主的演绎也让人错乱。场景很美，镜头也很美，但是这个故事在这版演绎下一塌糊涂。
就电影本身啥都好，但是剧本真不行！舞台剧里不讲理强行撒狗血可行，毕竟大家一起看个热闹；但直接照搬放到可以冷眼旁观的银幕，我真的被雷死了，真爱至上的女主显得过于脑残（每个人都）。那是1950s的价值观啊，直接搬上2022年，我表示不想吃这口几十年馊饭。唯一touch我的地方是，黑女在差点被乱暴的时候白女们纷纷搭手相救，要让她走的那幕，隔着屏幕感受到了黑女和白女们作为女性的绝望。在有人被施暴的现场，女性可以不计较肤色人种help each other out这一幕，是全片之光。
《西区故事》将歌舞戏放在广阔城市空间拍摄，将舞步融合于镜头的运动中，甚至于打斗戏都有歌舞编排，足见斯皮尔伯格成熟的拍摄功力，摄影质感和美术也很舒服，将当下种族矛盾等热点议题也嵌了进去，但是剧情和演员着实拖了后腿，男主继承《极盗车神》的面瘫特质，表演毫无情感张力，剧情也是非常冗长老套，悲剧内核被歌舞部分冲掉了太多。（6.5/10）
灯光镜头和舞蹈都很好，不至于这么多差评。斯皮尔伯格就是纽约人呀，这是他们的西区故事，而且总算不是全员白人假扮棕色人种了这一点比过去进步。青少年帮派斗争其实在立法禁止用童工之后，于是年轻力壮的小伙子们遵从动物本能天天争夺地盘惹是生非，青少年犯罪在当代西方成为大问题。
没想到在短时间内看到了一部比House of Gucci还要尬，还要难看的电影，到结束我也没能理解这个烂俗故事被翻拍的意义。确实从这个新版里，可以感知到斯皮尔伯格对歌舞片的一些想法，也尝试让影像在叙事上高于歌舞，但本身（也许是我自己的偏见），在我们现代的视觉里，这些歌舞还是割裂在情感之外，被鲜艳的色调冲刷，让表演在形式里失去意义，主角二人只好在片尾通过台词吼出自己的情感然后再被“原作”拆散。
如果忽略这个老成的故事，整部电影最大缺陷就是男女主了，两人的感情在故事中本身就是一见钟情的设定，但被两人演绎的像是强扭的西瓜，看着很拧巴。
刚开场就很有舞台剧的感觉，但是也就仅此而已了
25.12.2021 | @ Regal Majestic | 实力太硬了！太久没看Spielberg真是都忘了好的电影是这个样子的。我对于Ariana DeBose就是成长粉，真是越来越好了！Mike Faist这玩世不恭的颜给我往死里磕！
前半段舞蹈亮眼，後半段張力十足，很多細節很戳人，結尾觀眾大呼，what a great movie!
非要拍老套故事能不能按老式标准选演员 秃头歪脸粗脖男主怎么撑得起一见钟情的故事 要不把女主改成瞎子？ 女二确实很不错
5/10。不懂2021年了斯皮尔伯格干嘛要翻拍这个故事，还又臭又长。想重振歌舞片雄风吗，我看是老太太跳广场舞。男主有演技可言吗？
50-60分吧 今年看过的电影里面算是拉垮的 硬伤. 1.音乐剧风格不适合搬上荧幕 2. 当代罗密欧与朱丽叶的故事颇为牵强：女主居然在男主手🔪了他哥以后还愿意和他睡觉私奔；男主一会儿重新做人一会儿提刀宰人这不是恋爱冲昏头脑简直是冲到无脑. 3. 很多cliche+ 情节铺垫不完整; 比如药店老板娘循循善诱心灵鸡汤了半天丝毫没有心路历程. 4. 强行突出种族不🈴️美利坚,不知道是不是因为时代背景的原因感觉非常脸谱化（white trash vs 老墨gangs). 当代美利坚由于社会割裂和左右对立的问题深入骨髓, 看到这种简单的“是白人就不跟你跳舞”的逻辑反而觉得很流于表面…
三星都打给歌舞呈现和布景服装。2021年了，能不能不要再讲罗密欧朱丽叶式的一见钟情私定终身的愚蠢爱情故事了，加上拉垮的表演，完全没有办法共情男女主，只觉得十分脑残
本片改編於百老匯同名歌舞劇，亦是斯皮爾伯格對六十年代同名經典電影版本的翻拍。雖說珠玉在前，但斯皮爾伯格卻能拍出新意，在原版的種族紛爭基礎上增添階級矛盾，不同於這些年好萊塢電影愚蠢的白左思想，而是把種族以及階級矛盾變得更有思考意義，男女主角宿命般的悲劇也更接近於啓發《西區故事》誕生的《羅密歐與朱麗葉》。當然，斯皮爾伯格採用膠片拍攝，不僅保留了極美妙的視覺質感，更注重鮮明的光影設置，把各種各樣的光線（陽光，燈泡，霓虹燈招牌，體育館射燈，教堂彩繪玻璃以及太平間的燈管）都玩得出神入化，讓人頻頻夢回古典時代的好萊塢電影。只是本片缺乏斯皮爾伯格御用配樂約翰威廉姆斯的加盟，導致配樂水準大為下降，大衛紐曼的配樂毫無原版的激情奔放，斯皮爾伯格亦無心在音樂節奏上花心思，導致整部電影有舞無歌，實在可惜得很。
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