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".
说反派不够强、感情戏太多都对，但克雷格版的007本来定位就是一个更人性的邦德，有挣扎有羁绊，会受伤会痛苦，这一次更是被当做伯恩一样死整，朋友被杀身份被夺，甚至妻女也不能靠近，他依然是那个上天入地的特工第一人，但克雷格很好的演绎了这个角色普通人的一面，对他来说这算是完美的谢幕了，可以让一个角色随他而去，也算是份无比的荣耀了。
完全没有英雄落幕的悲情感，倒像是007的又一次“假死”。另外黑妹007的荧幕魅力真的不行
暂定为2021影院最难看电影，真的。。毫无兴趣，007死了也没感觉
因为不喜欢看动作片，比想象中好。反派直接放走女儿的骚操作，之前绑她是为了好玩吗？谢幕之作，无暇赴死，还是死了。
片头曲的美术创意元素衔接呼应堪称绝妙，
这个007要谢幕了，大家都等着他谢幕，大家都在想他会怎么谢幕，大家都在想他会怎么死，大家都等着他死，他果然死了，这个007终于死了，死透了，oh yeah！
两个女主选角都很有问题，尤其是曾经集智慧，美貌，于一身的邦女郎，如今变成了青春爱情小说里的笨女孩。
画面设计非常细腻华丽。而丹尼尔·克雷格的007的剧情模式真是一如既往……剧情仅仅是一幕幕动作戏之间的连接点，因逻辑不通顺而连接得断断续续。这一部boss则在007的谢幕演出下成为将其缔造为悲剧英雄的工具人，从而显得结尾过于短促。我不禁思考结尾这一幕幕如果不是影像，而是以漫画的形式，是不是能营造出意犹未尽的感觉。画面在骤亮后在一个个格子里变黑——“The End.”
逻辑莫名其妙，新007还不如秘书讨喜，岛上建筑不错。另外密恐警告
讲几个脑洞：
我和007的一个共同点，就是想退休后去捕鱼。
很想建立一个“因为反派太弱而导致电影难看”的豆列。感觉后面拍得很潦草，好像赶着deadline交作业一样。
五星邦德 福永是真的有东西 无论是雪地还是迷雾森林 大自然为动作场景增色许多 叙事节奏也好 引人入胜 丹尼尔克罗德的007也终于不再只是一个雄性杀人机器而更像是正义代言人 一个永恒的英雄形象 完美谢幕
糖里有屎…邦德谈恋爱的时候真的是…说土味情话都烫嘴…但能在大银幕上专心看3个小时我男人，还有啥好抱怨的
下一任邦德会是谁？这个问题在此刻已不再重要，丹尼尔.克雷格的表现足以被我们铭记。谢谢你，丹尼尔.克雷格❤️
这是没故事可写了吗？美术和摄影还不错，但也掩盖不了故事的无聊，一切都太刻意，甚至都有点做作了，每一步都像是为了告别丹尼尔而作的剧情。大家去看007就是想在两小时中代入这种绝对主角身份 从枪雨弹林中走出 身上的西装和发型还一丝不乱的绝对有型 是要看他在与邪恶敌人周旋中还与众美人调情但片叶不沾身的潇洒 谁要看这种婆婆妈妈的琼瑶戏….
Really???!!!!
开头永远都是邦德说他退休了，在一个风景宜人的/人口密集/喧闹的第三世界的地方度假，然后出了娄子出来反派（一大半是组织自己搞出来的），然后一个人回头看着屏幕问：007在哪里？
一手好牌打得稀烂。养条狗吧大哥！
这个系列的连续多年观影，真的已成情怀，丹尼尔最后一部？仿佛又再次告别青春。with 斌 @汉阳imax
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