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".
比黑豹好看。但是救命，男主角简直挫气到不行了！！！梁朝伟和陈法拉怎么可能生出这样的娃！！！
还凑合。看得出来已经非常努力的在加中国元素了，小心翼翼的把所有雷区全都避开了，奈何定义权这件事不能商量
本片改編於同名漫畫，是漫威難得以亞洲人為原型創作的超級英雄，但不同於《黑豹》是黑人自信的加持，此片選中形象和演技，身手皆一般的劉思慕出演尚氣一角，似乎就是迪士尼對華人的刻板形象反映。不過該片除去超級英雄外衣，實際也不過是迪士尼一向的尋寶冒險故事，相對符合主流觀眾口味，而港式動作，燈籠，神龍，紅色長杉這些東方意象，只能說明好萊塢對中國的認識仍然停留在《臥虎藏龍》的年代。而且本片故事老套，美學落後，甚至是漫威拿手的特效部分也是眼花繚亂缺乏中心，幸好還有梁朝偉充充場面，他在片中飾演大反派文武，以出色演技把一個平凡到典型的反派人性化，痴情，偏執，陰險的角色外表下，是一個失敗的父親對子女的深愛。
作為算中華文化的一分子，这样把什么都混搭真的好吗……好在梁生在哇，奥菲小姐在……
真要下沉中国市场，把加州旅馆改成五环之歌就可以了。
不失为一部娱乐性十足的喜剧电影，除此之外，也没太多惊喜。前面有点致敬Speed，十环和天上飞下来都有点像功夫，最后龙飞天的镜头稍微老土，变成纳尼亚或者黄金罗盘那种类型的童话故事的感觉。和其他漫威相比，有一点down grade。
1.个人观感胜过去年的真人版《花木兰》，故事不时联想到《功夫熊猫3》，没想到最后还有像《哥斯拉大战金刚》的庞然大物对决；2.装上龙眼后的特效场面让我眼前一亮；3.本来以为梁朝伟对元华讲的那句“小子，跟我讲话礼貌点。我吃的盐比你吃的饭还多。”会是我全片最大的笑点，结果却被第一个彩蛋的《Hotel California》给后来居上了；……
融合美籍亚裔的家庭关系、日韩裔对港式动作片的模仿、东南亚国家对中华文明的想象，总之是彰显一种既熟悉又陌生的观感。
强烈安利尚气！想看爽片的同学，全片一场接一场打戏每一个都设计得不一样，有视效很炫、让人眼花缭乱的那种，也有借鉴东方武术，刚柔并济的王家卫式美学。想看内涵的同学，本片对中西文化的融合真是really one of its kind，特别有意思。
和黑豹的gang/community culture类似，漫威拍亚裔超级英雄就全都是family business，可谓是兼顾了身份政治的糖与毒药。对香港荷里活功夫片以及李小龙（be water）的回顾更多是一种对亚裔文化黄金期的怀旧，任何从大陆中心的角度去解读“中华”文化的尝试都很危险。但经过重新包装后，过去曾赋权过少数族群的进步文化符号又变成了一种新的枷锁—如同十环=父权的意向一样紧紧禁锢住了新的文化生成的可能性。
梁朝伟和陈法拉怎么会生出这样的大胖儿子……
大厦外围脚手架打架那场很新警察故事。文武被吸光——陈永仁被爆头。眼神眼神。
今天是新加坡尚气提前上映第一天，在决定买票之前我还特意去搜了marvel有无澄清傅满洲涉嫌辱华的角色定位，看到漫威老板亲自出来讲文武不是傅满洲，傅满洲也不会存在漫威电影里，终于可以观影了！
唯一不满，梁朝伟的人设太仙侠风了，看着太亲切塑造地又好反而喧宾夺主。轰轰烈烈的争议，却让漫威另辟蹊径，既然都试图跟中国挂钩带节奏，那就仅取东方美术的皮，国籍、朝代闭口不言。巧妙地规避G点，另一方面讨好西方弑夫文化的同时适当改编取折中。更让人意外的是哪怕有成家班的加持，这个初出茅庐的亚裔导演居然学到了温子仁那些大场面的皮毛，甚至第三幕屡屡让我有看《卧虎藏龙》的感觉。
评论里居然有人被勾出了中国魂啊……雷死我了。看不下去……男女主丑的问题就不说了，剧情也很无聊。
打的很爽，特别是前半段有点成龙港片的味道。中国元素多到怀疑这是不是漫威电影。看的很过瘾，期待尚气和奇异博士的碰撞。
更正：这不是拍给亚裔看的片儿。这是给世界看的中华文化宣传片，谢谢。
也许是漫威目前为止最好的动作戏，从公交车上狭小空间的闪转腾挪，到高楼外惊险刺激的肉博，再到融入武侠意境的竹林打斗，最后到奇珍异兽的乱斗大场面，虽然风格有所割裂，呈现的却是目不暇接的精彩动作调度。当然必不可免的用东方视角去看待多少存在文化隔阂，然而就像电影里太极象征包容平和的寓意，正是西方创作模式与东方文化的杂糅才创造了更多可能，而不是一味的指责。还有，梁朝伟也太tm帅了！
和朋友们一起看的，体验很好，使得对这个片的印象也好了不少。东方主义的部分都不想说了，剧本写得稀烂，谁也不挨谁哪也不挨哪一嘟噜一块，刘思慕全程一脸整不明白的表情，确实整不明白。觉得有意思的地方倒是把功夫片和怪兽片结合起来的尝试，龙虽然长得跟皇带鱼似的，但动作设计还挺有意思。梁朝伟和打戏堪称港片回魂尸，看了觉得忧伤。
作為算中華文化的一分子，这样把什么都混搭真的好吗……好在梁生在哇，奥菲小姐在……
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