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".
妈妈咪呀救救我！神作塌房，猝不及防。何苦呢，何苦非要把廉颇老矣翻着面儿给大家看？故事是旧瓶装旧酒，前作翻版再来一次，而且变成爱能解决一切，太失格了。要还是这样，别再续集吧。还有选角，Smith用乔纳森、心理师用帕特里克，两位同志演员，龌龊司机是想说明什么呢～：Ｐ
开始还是蛮期待的，算是诺兰弟和老婆Lisa在准备西部世界下一季期间的side project，还有来自诺兰一直合作的休杰克曼以及西部世界的诸多熟面孔比如两位老鸨，但是故事真的太弱了，末日反乌托邦设定就是个摆设，一点没有融入剧情中，女主所谓神秘的背景却以温情和道德的面膜收场，very cliché了。Lisa姐果然是男性直男审美毫无女性意识的创作者，不看好
幸福的故事都没有幸福的结局。
2.0。近乎繼承了諾蘭電影的一切缺點。記憶能還原出第三者客觀視點這個離譜的設定本身，就讓這個故事完全不成立。
影片里的场景设定挺不错的，只是导演想要表达的内容很多——悬疑犯罪、爱情、科幻、社会议题等等。而糟糕的是最终落脚于爱情，更糟糕的是这段爱情的呈现方式是马利克的MV模式，让观众对于两个主角还是爱情本身都无法融入乃至共青。于是解谜过程让人觉得冗长、阶级暴乱隔靴搔痒、动作场面绵绵无力、情感又丝毫不动人，太遗憾了。
不是所有人都渴望控制，就像不是所有人都渴望自由。B-
期待值很高，总体上却不如期待。但是作为娱乐片，还是值得一看。
然而诺兰弟妹指导的这部电影长片处女作格局还是小了，把重心放在了爱情上，悬疑和科幻全都像是为了“狼叔”谈恋爱而硬凑的，节奏缓慢、张力单薄。
我怀疑我的世界是不是也是个虚拟的矩阵，明明前面一小时津津有味，突然我再有记忆已经是在床上了，一定是我看到一半觉醒了然后被矩阵洗脑了，才不是太烂了把我看睡着了🙄
情怀值满分，剧情有几块没太看懂，拍成《速度与激情：黑客帝国》，主要就是讲了复活二人，除了枪战和打斗以为没什么特别。挺多精彩的地方像是以前特效拿来剪辑一样，看来这部电影后面会更精彩，这部也就是开了一个头。里面的地铁小女孩在这里出现有些意外。
纯爱剧。音乐可以单独加两星。当作超长文艺MV来刷比较不会失望。最接受无能的在于：彦祖の普通话很好就把pengyou当作amigo直接替换到英文黑帮用语中了。。同步替换的还有妞和臭狗屁等常见词。。于是文艺片儿瞬间就，不知该用何种表情来凌波丽了。。
彩蛋大联合，包括爽到爆的smith联盟。新概念挺用心的，也仅限概念层面。人机联合，情感力量，后电子时代未铺陈太多；人物动机什么的就更不提了
确实是要静下心来看的片子，也难怪大家觉得扑街。
故事一环接一环，时空不断地交错，爱情最后没能留下一个好结局，令人唏嘘。抛开富商买凶杀情妇和遗子，和毒枭枪战，貌似故事有些薄弱。什么温室效应海平面上升，什么地产商和民众的矛盾冲突，一笔带过。三星半。
纵使最后的高楼跃下是实拍，纵使之前刚在北京电影节刷过三部曲的我看到崔妮蒂觉醒两人牵手激动得眼泪都蹦出来。但屎一般的前两小时却早已消解了它的力道。
救世主都是妥妥的电池工具人。之前看过kuaizero老高的黑客帝国讲解被剧透了。矩阵现实世界就是被人工智能一代又一代的利用拟态来压榨电池工具人不断进行生态系统升级，其目的就是为了很完美的保护人类这个稀有而奇怪的物种。
开始挺尬的 但是后面看着还是很有感触 尤其是Neo和Trinity合体的时候 感慨时间的无情 就是炒冷饭和各种闪回实在是没必要
好像电视剧的拍法，全是对话，全是正反打镜头毫无设计，光也是打的电视剧的亮光，一切回原来电影的画面才有电影的感觉。
但是在科幻类型片小年的2021，《追忆迷局》还是挤进了榜单前十，不知道该为影片高兴，还是该为科幻类型电影难过！
当然most厉害的character当然is阿祖啦，chinese英混杂的language给人feel非常odd但又ridiculous呢。
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