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".
可能因为俩导演，敌方不再是纸片工具人，两支队伍的对比挺有意思的
日本郭德纲，终于明白郭老师为什么爱穿名牌儿了，要做体面人啊😢
演技做到章宇这样再夸炸裂吧。
小场面描绘了抗美援朝战争的一部分，不影响惊心动魄，生死一线，战友情谊的表达。敌人也不容低估
票房输给水门桥正常（毕竟水门桥更商业），但是输那么多真的觉得我们的观众电影鉴赏能力太低了。
情感的渲染太浓烈了些，但已经比较克制了，值得表扬。故事很好，走心了。
说实话，成片质量看下来感觉还是蛮有说服力的，仿佛这个事情真的很有可能发生在飞机大炮冲刺的战场上。除去艺术加工后的细节，说真的。这个故事还是很有共情的几个瞬间。
第一部导演作品挺稳的啊，有结构，有情绪，题材也有话题。缺陷也不少，但可以期待下一部。
情感的渲染太浓烈了些，但已经比较克制了，值得表扬。故事很好，走心了。
既要在生活无时不刻扮演ボケ磨练技艺，还要有跨过师匠的决心，成为一个传奇可真不容易啊。
情节推进全程在线，后段稍显紊乱，但是不影响民族情感爆棚，我为祖国骄傲
演传奇 尤其还是活着的传奇 就真的好难。所以与其拍得这么工整，就还不如有点出其不意
致敬中国的英烈。老谋子在这个年龄还有如此的创作欲望和能力也同样让人敬佩（2022-13）
看哭了，Netflix干大事，影帝这次演得一点也不虚。
日本导演北野武的传记片，主要截取他初出茅庐时的那段生活，聚焦于他与浅野法兰西座师傅之间的关系。本片依据北野武的自传，又由他自己编剧，因此在影片中形象相当正面。该片中最有光彩的人物还是其师傅，从如日中天的浅野谐星和戏剧老板，到跟不上时代后半生落泊的失败者，颇让人唏嘘不已。该片细节丰富，台词精彩。活人传记片能拍得如此，实属不易。
7/10，题外话是，北野武做完了所有我想做的事，写书，发唱片，拍电影，演电影，当喜剧演员
硬汉内心柔软的过往。结尾太感人了。唯一的缺点是柳乐优弥太帅了。
唉，一日为师终身为父啊。结尾的长镜头让人联想起泰坦尼克号，斑驳凋零的景物重返光华，所有人都还是最好的年纪。第一次听浅草キッド还是北野武上ぴったんこカンカン的时候，原来背后有这样一个故事。
先不说纽约时报在战争期间报道中国军人的神勇军功而且是放在头条合不合理，但是让美军自己拿出这一头条仅仅是为了说明中国军人抢了美军的风头？我无话可说。除了丝毫的渲染与铺垫作用之外，简直是尴尬灾难。如此弄巧成拙、适得其反不如踏踏实实、平铺直叙的讲故事，在故事中展现狙击生死一线的紧迫感，用镜头说话、用配乐与故事本身带动观众情绪，而不是靠尴尬的旁白与露骨的提示。（光影做得也很差，第一场狙击战中山坡对面的美军狙击镜反光，下一秒阳光就照在了山坡这边的班长脸上）
疫情是一场战争，一场和资本主义，帝国主义，修正主义，官僚主义的斗争，坚决和与病毒共存的投降主义观点斗争到底！
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