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".
8.1 之前看到朋友在学clint eastwood电影中的masculinity，那么本片恰恰是对其身上种种男性符号的回望与反思。年老的牛仔不再是任何一人的white savior，他只是一个身处异地的美国佬，一个动物的亲好者，一个真正的朋友。只有这般的去戏剧化，我们才能感知到东木的真实意图:这个时代不再需要macho了，而是需要更多的爱与哭泣。
【3.5】简单真挚，仅仅讲述一段温柔的旅程。东木能一直坚持拍下去，就是之于一位创作者最美好的事情。
东木老爷老了啊老了，不过依然有魅力，“是个好人”。一段旅程，让老少都找到了自己的归宿，少的和他爹交代的有些语焉不详，但重在旅程吧。
一个牛仔身体老了，但牛仔的心永恒！
前一阵我从达拉斯去了了墨西哥城，看完本片就是俩字“舒坦”。片尾的歌曲唱着Find a new home, 或许对东木老爷子来说，美国已经没什么值得留恋的了。
很不亚当斯很幼稚的剧情，Wednesday和妈妈很酷很优雅以外，别的都是啥呀
一个温柔的老爷爷在告别他自己，顺便给你讲了一个温馨的故事哄你睡觉。愿世界永远有温柔的说故事的人。不老。
爸爸的教育方式很好 家长要是能学会“I let you down”就好了
这一回，即使身为东木粉，我也打不出四星了。即使是曾经最拿手的西部片+公路片（一定程度上又复刻了[完美的世界]），伊斯特伍德也还是没拍好，或许终究是英雄迟暮吧。很明显可以看出老爷子做主演心有余而力不足了，驯马/骑马戏只能使用远景替身+本人上身近景的方式呈现，就连说台词和走路都让人捏着一把汗。尽管摄影与配乐尚算精致，但故事实在过于温吞——可能是因为真正强有力的敌手与冲突委实无法抵挡了。老牛仔一边说着服老与自嘲的台词“当你老去，你才意识到自己并没有任何答案”“I don't know how to cure 'old'.”，一边又仍旧试图强行续写英雄主义+白人直男中心主义幻想（陈旧俗套的美墨关系设定，墨西哥寡妇和“警长”完全是扁平纸片人），不仅了无新意而且违和感浓重。（6.5/10）
“The little black dress is a classic, Mother.”
星期三以为自己不是亲生的女儿拜托，你真的想太多ヽ（・＿・；)ノ。全家欢乐喜剧人大碰撞简直不要太可爱。
开篇几场戏并不好，没什么铺垫就直奔主题，其实也无需前景赘言，东木形象一出来大家就知道他是来解决问题的，这次故事里呈现的力不从心，处处妥协可能是东木到这个年纪自己的心态，好勇斗狠没有意义，寻得那一片温存才是归宿。很舒服，但很软的电影
就是套着亚当斯一家的壳子，不管是是1973，1991，1992版的亚当斯一家，温斯蒂都很爱自己的家人，根本不可能像这版里这样嫌弃自己的家人
故事娓娓道来但并不足够吸引人，如果不是东木，我觉得根本不会有人投资。但是人到了这个岁数，拍的电影一定是十分私人化的表达—不会再去竞争什么奖项了，也没有事业的巅峰可以冲击了，连荷尔蒙都衰退殆尽了，唯一剩下的只有回忆、忏悔以及对生命的爱。91岁的东木已经气息不稳，弯腰驼背，步履蹒跚，但是他没有停止拍摄。他也从来不是那种完美主义艺术家，和雷德利斯科特一样，这种优秀导演高产必有平庸之作，但是他们从来没有离开他们的影迷啊！
比第一部弱智一点点 但是还是好爱亚当斯一家
和第一部比起来差多了，套用了万能公路片的套路，很多细节差强人意
亚当斯一家的价值观不知道是否还能一直践行？
好无聊
亚当斯一家的价值观不知道是否还能一直践行？
女主就没想过用妈妈的头发吗？毕竟也有戴绿帽的可能啊
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
