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".
高司令被桃和Billy Bob艳压也就算了，居然Rege和印度小哥都能艳压他，请问Ken是来这台戏里衬托其他人的吗，还有罗素，看不出来两兄弟还是缝合怪呢。
其实吧，打斗戏爽点都在，罗素的动作场面确实还行，但除此之外都啥。如果真的拍成不计较剧情的爽片也就罢了，偏偏罗素认认真真在交代漏洞百出的剧情，认认真真在塑造扁平的人设，让每个角色做自以为很聪明实则很迷惑的行为，导致观感直线下滑。不会讲故事就别讲，世界上有很多不需要脑子就能看得很爽的爽片，望所有爽片导演周知。
中间爆炸场景太带劲儿了，这种剧要什么剧情？就是干！反正电影里演的，世界第一拉跨的jc是欧洲的，第二是港剧里的，每天被人当做配角突突突
比迈克尔.贝的新作可是好太多了，有点像《卡特》
整体上平淡无奇，中规中矩，没有特别出彩的操作，作为大成本的商业片，看看各种腺上激素飙升的动作大场面也就可以了。
至于剧情等于没有，就这样还要留个尾巴搞成ip，网飞现在的经济情况真的能支持他们持续生产这么毫无记忆点一看就忘的古典爆米花电影吗
感觉网飞想砸出一个Jason Bourne乃至Ethan Hunt出来，高司令练得确实也还行动作设计也非常好，观感摸到了John Wick水准，配合上罗素兄弟那套尽头爽确实是爽到了，还有AdA，期待下一部。
总分10分，看在钱的份上，给6分，不能再多了。
想打造成特工大IP但第一部上来就又开始带娃这直接就太烂俗了吧...前一小时看出来在讲故事但对比谍影就属于废话和工具人太多，瓦格纳马拉的形象好好笑，1小时之后布拉格10分钟动作戏的最好的部分，之后就开始烂俗开挂，安娜走位拿RPG闯大门是有点猛，罗素兄弟说和网飞合作很快乐因为网飞不干预，但您的水平和十年前美队2比还倒退了，也就摄影调度还在线而已，这2亿美元成本除了满世界取景租地请演员以外没看出花在哪了
超级老套毫无新意的剧情，看得出来CE想在这部电影搞个突破演个不一样的形象，但是真的用力过猛……
Netflix cancel掉一个又一个大家喜爱和期待的节目，然后把钱花在这种电影上，well done, well done, sir.
现在拍这种片是一定要在全世界各大城市来回流窜是不？
这么贵的网飞电影在有原著的情况下都感觉拍得干巴巴的，没有原著还得了……
网飞量产型垃圾，你拍两男神过家家真人秀都比这个有意义
特工片玩烂的东西还在堆砌缝合，各种枪战动作大场面轮番轰炸，反派弱智，文戏灾难，剧情与节奏都稀碎不堪，跨越半个世界的追杀撕斗结果都沦为走马观花的一幅幅美景，007式的天神降临完美逃脱，再来个大叔配萝莉的温情有爱一面，有钱是真的可以为所欲为，花里胡哨的一通乱秀尽显身手，狂塞的动作戏虽满却冗余无效，最终就是食之无味的平庸，好在主角们个个魅力十足，布拉格大战也十分精彩，勉强三星。
比迈克尔.贝的新作可是好太多了，有点像《卡特》
制作还不错，但真的还有必要拍一部没什么新意的特工片吗
爽片，枪战动作戏好看，高司令也好看，爽就完事，没啥剧情
只能说有两亿美元投入的电影确实有两亿美元的视觉效果和高级的视听体验，但如此贫瘠、老套、毫无惊喜可言的文本实在不值得两亿的投入。继《谢里》后罗素兄弟又一次展示了自己“过人”的导演能力。
每个片段单独看还好，但拼在一起就一整个莫名其妙，网飞能不能不要再拍这种究极缝合怪了？！看完我甚至能确定，高司令演的真人版芭比，都会比这部好看
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