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".
想做Neo Noir勇气可嘉，但无奈情节过于老旧，一度让观众无法cares人物命运。动作桥段太生硬了，尤其吴彦祖的戏份，这个删了都不影响。倒是非常喜欢高科技催眠回溯的设定。
“他们幸福的生活在一起了吗？” “不然呢？还会有什么结局呢。”
The past doesnt haunt us...its us who haunt past, we haunt it, so we look again, see the people we miss and things we miss about.我时常像剧中角色一样陷在(对堡的)回忆里无可自拔以此为乐，像个老年人
这特么居然是个爱情片，奈何剧情无比老套，马戏之王二人组再续前缘演了出虐恋情深生离死别，躺水里“追忆”的方式也太像少数派报告了，吴彦祖英夹中的台词真不是为了增添喜剧效果？
配乐、色调、推镜、主题都像《盗梦空间》，但剧本太单薄，人物出场突兀，节奏过慢，唯一演技算好的是吴彦祖。坚持了1个小时，中途弃剧。
十五分钟以后就后悔了。莫名其妙矫情台词，过于冗长且老套的调情段落，女主演的太过了，满身写着“我好美我好性感”，太出戏了。格局也小，人物情感扭捏。
总之，打三星是因为演员。
剧本很糟，导演也不行，没做出来黑色电影的质感，感情线也单薄，没有恋爱细节，观众看不出有什么刻骨铭心的，还不如女二给的戏多。想起旋风小子最后郝劭文说的，我觉得安妮没有珍珠好
感谢吴彦祖。一直以来大家都是中文里夹英文，终于有人英文里夹中文了。
故事剧情什么一般，没有啥特别的冲动，剧情节奏可能还有点儿慢。冲着吴彦祖夹杂着中文的英语，给4星
最后居然还有点狗血感人，但浪费了这个科技感了
come on故弄玄虚也不是这样搞的，如此老套的故事只是套娃套娃而已。关于记忆的科幻片很多，就没见过这么烂的。
大家都很帅，可以勉强为了脸把分往上抬一抬。但是剧情就很烂，这个末世科幻高概念设定，一开始整得挺玄乎，结果看着看着，就这？就这？祖哥下线那段剧情之弱智，我只能说，很难再有比这更离谱的剧情杀了……整部片就是用来玩手机打发时间当BGM蛮合适的。话说修哥接这个戏是图点啥？
糟糕节奏的水国列车，电视剧的节奏硬拍成了电影。结局也太烂了！想艺术但是根本没那艺术劲！
疑犯追踪+西部世界。Newton的设定和疑犯追踪里的Shaw几乎一模一样，枪法好，医护，老兵，酗酒。
基调迷人，概念不新，外壳尚可，内里空洞，诺兰弟媳学得到皮毛，文本还有很大提升空间。狼叔丽贝卡再续马戏之王前缘，吴彦祖保持除暴中油腻，还有为啥每句英文里都得蹦个中文啊，巨他吗蠢。
好棒，休叔第一面就爱上一个人，相处了几个月，然后用了余下的一辈子去回忆点点滴滴。设定有点扯，陆沉下的美国，居然有记忆重现的高科技。。。吴彦祖打酱油了10分钟，休叔和梅的事都是普通人的挣扎，居然能和地产商扯上关系，有点过了。。
湿答答欲破堤的未来城市，暗暗辉光引导记忆重建的机器，扑朔迷离的黑暗面，忍受神经质叙事后，是伤感中有点温暖的安抚。是谁，在哪里，为什么，一切都不重要，只愿回荡在最美的那段记忆。
看到一半睡着了，估计是我太累了！但是节奏真的慢，末世的设定不是很有说服力！吴彦祖的英中夹杂真心听不来，什么奇怪设定！然后那么容易被干掉，还kingpin？ 其他的倒没有啥大毛病！女主的颜有时候觉得很美，有时候又soso，倒是狼叔的磁性voice真适合用来催眠！
台词很诗意又有点哲理，再配上休杰克曼的声音，绝了。但是缺陷是，重复的哲理太多，喧宾夺主的叹息又有点做作。虽然是超前卫高科技时代，美国还是过着九十年代的故事背景，就…很奇怪了，故事是拧着 美国老电影 洛城机密+唐人街的套路。所以是导演想表达，再过上几个世纪，美国还是这样“堕落”无法进步呢，还是编剧过于迷恋90年代的创造套路，与其说是在赛博朋克式里唱支怀旧恋歌，不如说编剧自己沉溺于那个时代回忆里无法自拔…吴彦祖那么会讲英语的一个演员，到了现在还在美国演那种美国人刻板印象里的英语不太好的亚裔龙套角色就挺尴尬的，“poor 龟孙子”这句台词直接把我笑喷了…
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