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".
真的大失所望，看预告片以为是能媲美异次元骇客级别的好片，结果就为了点情情爱爱低质展开，设定也不疼不痒。既不赛博朋克，也不末世危机。主人公不紧不慢地谈着恋爱，保镖因为对方是军人就不执行命令，真不错，这剧情真不错，给我看吐了
3-…蛮有现实感又颇具文艺腔的科幻点子，可惜故事略矫情，导演也是电视剧功力
大杂烩？平庸到有点无聊，结尾拖拉到了极致。故事凑合，编排糟糕，看这部发现从连续剧编剧到电影编剧还是有门槛的。英文里夹中文的彦祖也是很别致了。20220113
--2021.08.29 Edgartown
科幻背景下的恋爱脑寻爱之旅 吴彦祖在这里老了也瘦了 中英夹杂说话挺搞笑
m21221：自证眼光，沉迷过去。不往前看？？？
感觉诺兰一家都对记忆有什么不切实际的幻想。
5.6分。像是一位半吊子文科生写理科试卷，怎么整都不对味儿。
你以为是金刚狼大战MI6特工，实际上是个揉了一堆老梗，连科幻点子都很underdeveloped的悬疑爱情片。你以为女导演的作品就没有男性凝视？那真是大错特错。故事走向和呈现手法真是又矫情又俗气，中段几乎催眠，彦祖的台词总共就没几句还尬到极致。也就只有结尾稍显脱俗。导演自我感动的同时，以为全程播放狼叔的低音炮旁白观众也就跟着感动了
侦探故事的本质还不错，狼叔个人魅力十足，就是浪漫元素比较cheezy，吴彦祖的中英文混杂很尬
吴彦祖的肌肉六分，故事情节扣两分。
先说海报模仿《银翼杀手》，剧情则是老掉牙的黑色电影套路，一个半吊子侦探+一个神秘美女，台词非常奇怪，半中文半英文，时代背景海水上涨也没啥大用，好莱坞烂片，鉴定完毕
只有五分钟好看，不知道想干嘛的无聊电影，aka废柴屁事多。吴彦祖强行夹中文简直笑疯。
设定不错。我会选择一个最美好的记忆并活在其中直到老去，甚至不知老之将至。当一切过去之后我才看清真相，看清那个命中注定的善良选择。
西部世界的资源，女性视角，难怪看的这么别扭。
Rebecca Ferguson 很美，没了
剧情的构思和展开还是好的，但是空有一个高概念，所有元素都杂糅混沌在一起，没有面目清晰的轮廓和呼之欲出的主题，没有打磨和执行好，实在是太可惜了。
终究还是爱情胜过一切，永远的停留在那最炽烈，最浓情的一刻，没有世俗打搅，没有现实浇冷水，最朴素的愿望。让爱情保留那一刻的美妙弧光，毕竟人人都知道，顶峰过去后就是深渊的现实。那一刻的隽永确实令人迷醉，不断的重复，最后还是挠到我的泪腺，让我写下这段话。故事一般，就是为了爱情这一刻的弧光，写的整个剧本吧。这一刻击穿屏幕，击溃了我的心，值得五星，能以点破面的片子都值得赞赏。PS：狼叔声音太性感啦！！！太爱跨越记忆，跨越时空对话的感觉了，爱死了。让我想起了《上海堡垒》，也是为了一段话写了整个故事“这条短信在中国移动的信号台之间穿梭，找不到它的目的地，就像是永不消逝的电波，穿行在空无一人的城市里。我想象着在那个沉眠于地下的城市里，那条短信是个虚无飘渺的女孩”
有这样的时空隧道，真的是太棒了。吴彦祖的亮相很精彩，就是混杂着中文的台词让我鸡皮疙瘩一地。悬疑的节奏稍稍慢了点。
和敌人对线的时候大喊~啊！！我没子弹了~~~
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