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".
1.章宇好帅啊；2.新人演员们都好棒；3.每一次关键的射击一定要给个慢镜头真的有必要吗；4.主线索人物的转换真的很惊喜很意外；5.愿世间再无战争。
抛头颅，洒热血，前辈们的生命换来的地位与和平。
中规中矩。演员不出错，节奏把控到位，也有对美军的“部分”合理刻画。战士牺牲情节老套但也老到，观众还是会败阵。班长牺牲后剧情开始奇怪，几处无谓煽情尬到想离席。
从小看到大的那些抗日电影即便是脸谱化奇观化脱离实际地讴歌化，至少「反法西斯战争」的本质是 legit 的。而关于这场战争，即便是「命题作文」，我也期待有创作者能「真话不全说，假话全不说」。可惜张艺谋也没能做到。
偶像北野武不无聊一生开始于此。这不是彼得武自传而是徒弟对师父思念化成电影。柳乐优弥演技已出神入化看他演戏似乎就如在看年轻阿武那种不羁执著都演出来了。服化道营造昭和时代感满满不得不说最好时代遇到最对的人是有多重要
法兰西座与浅草艺人之歌，风格不免电视剧了些，但胜在情深意切。柳乐的老妆似乎不甚必要，反而有点恐怖谷效应。
不失煽情的喜剧人故事，有些想到《火花》里的师徒。
2021年的最后一部电影，你不能讨好观众，要你去告诉观众什么是有趣的。
一般，尤其不喜欢几段表现狙击手枪法精准的子弹时间。
通过多年张艺谋电影观察可知老谋子还是适合拍剧情简单的戏
非一般形式传记片，只是截取了北野武师从深见迈入谐星坦途这感人的一段，千里马遇到伯乐，伯乐引导的方式以及豁出脸面背后助推的苦心，实在触动人心，有对传统技艺的感慨，有对法兰西座的感怀，柳乐优弥竭力去演的半张脸，在重返的长镜头里，满含深情。
3.5，半部佳片，比悬崖好，值回票价。
同为抗美援朝题材，与《长津湖》的大场面不同，张导主要着力于小，掐头去尾大约70分钟时间全部展现这场与美军的狙击战，悬念重生高潮迭起，张导整体的节奏把握到位，把几位新演员的表演调教的真实可信，张译首尾现身，章宇演的尤其出彩，几场戏处理的感人肺腑，张艺谋导演以72岁高龄再次证明，他还是中国最优秀的导演之一。
节奏太棒了！没有像某些战争片一样让人看的心累，想不到还有谁比章宇更适合这个角色，加一星给章宇，新人演的也挺好的，没有刻意煽情但也能感受到当年这些战士的伟大，很感动，可能这些具体的人更能让观众动容，比较好的是没有给对手强行降智。
“我现在算是理解关东煮的心情了。”
北野武自传电影的第二部泪目之作，也是回忆师徒关系的第二部，前一部是讲他年轻时落语师傅的《红鳉鱼》。
再现红色记忆，伟大的战争，曾被遗忘，终究要被镌刻进我们的基因。
很轻盈，这也不失为一种处理传记片的方式。不需要对人物过度挖掘，而是把重心给到情境氛围的塑造中。让北野武自己来拍的话恐怕不会是这种感觉，但出乎意料的还不错。可以与KIDS RETURN里的两个漫才小子比对看。
1.师徒情深，寓情于乐，结尾小酒馆合作，一唱一和默契至极，不过影帝演的年轻北野武太谦逊有礼了简直OOC。
张译开头露个面结尾露个面看见了还觉得挺定心
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