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".
不输《超能陆战队》的动画佳作，立意甚至更胜一筹。
是黑色幽默吗？结尾还是依赖电子产品，只不过修复另一个补丁而已，这个才是最大的bug吧？也没有很有友谊的友谊出现啊...2个总裁是在映射库克跟扎克伯格吧，很形象了。
都不是些新鲜的元素，且同样套路的动画长片看多了之后，没有些新点子、新玩法，很容易审美疲劳。
在poop girl的B robot一直把恶搞视频推给她的时候，我就知道这个机器人系统一定有病。但是男主为什么不再买一个新的机器人呢，有罗恩数据的机器人。
我认同编剧对社交的恐惧和电子产品的警惕。我们已经是离不开电力的电子产品了（说的是我们自己，时时刻刻担心自己电子设备的电力还剩多少）。我们每个人都生活在云端，现在帮助我们回忆某年某月某日某一天的，不是记忆或日记本，而是朋友圈。当我们寄生于云端的那个小格子，是更自由了吗？还有意义吗？谁不想交一个只付出的朋友？这也是为什么现在交朋友越来越难，人们情愿在虚拟网络与人交心，却对身边朋友的困难置若罔闻。影片最终还是将交友建立在电子设备上，有些失望，但是，也许，我们终将与电子设备共生，无法摆脱，也许，与电子设备交朋友更容易，不用口是心非，不用在乎TA的感受，不用试图被理解，也不用理解对方安抚对方帮助对方，只要一味地接受就好了。
永远没有ending。
是不能细思否则会极恐的拍给合家欢的喜剧动画，无论是机器人设定还是friendship theme都已经是陈年的cliche,好在氛围营造的不错，所以笑点还是有的。电影后半段逃往树林剧情开始后有种隐隐崩盘的迹象，但是这种kids friendly童话总会强行大团圆。那些迷恋technology和social media的孩子总会turn out to be fine,那些被cyber bully或者网络影响下容貌焦虑的青少年也不会self harming,因为我们要相信友谊和梦想不是么？哪怕这让我们变得多么虚伪。
这种电影，有国语就是4星，可以带孩子一起看，没有国语，只能3星。
年度最佳。和《智能大反攻》有相似，但不是一类片子。唯二缺点，一个是啥都想要的，另外一个则是前15分钟稍显无聊，15分钟后一切都不一样了。虽然台词有FG，然而故事讲的却是回归少数，回归异类，回归XX主义，注意看小男孩的原国籍。把交朋友包装成异类，非常具有当下性。拍片子的人，要么是左到了极点，要么是有点小右，总之绝对没表象上那么简单。相比之下，科技公司两个老板的路线之争就太常规了。PS.注意机器人叫小孩的名字是押沙龙，也是可以对位的，毕竟他们真的逃到了森林里，无非结局不同。
目前7.6分实至名归，创意可以，有点地方不够细致和升华。
正好刚被“朋友”演了看了这个电影哈哈哈哈，特别讽刺。人与人之间的真诚呢，不如机器人。
都22年了啊，还来这种科技恐惧＋科技儿戏真的不好了，plus煽情
3.5星。大数据作品，Ron有点像缩小版的大白，有几幕还是挺暖心的。创始人好像库克和“黑化”的扎克伯格。
但我们到底应不应该和机器交朋友？
小白走了 小白又无处不在 如果有人为你亮起了一盏灯 希望在那里得到你需要的温暖
6.2/10，《未来机器城》开场要是有个迪士尼的LOGO，那豆瓣上还不得上个8.0分？emmmm，你品，你细品。
前半段拿人工智障开涮足够逗趣，不过凡是以怪咖为主角的动画喜剧，似乎总免不了让主角在经历一番磨难或奇遇后悟到友谊是魔法，顺便附一段冗长无聊的说教。开什么玩笑，片子里主角的“朋友们”，真的有啥非去结交不可的必要么。
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故事没有让机器人清零，而是改进算法与其共存。该思路效果如何，希望可以拍第二部验证一下。
冗长的故事在第三幕到来之前就已经让人失去了耐心。人物的塑造还有精进的空间，现在其实没有让人看到讨喜点。
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