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".
故事都没讲好，咱就不说其他层面的事情，男主角太顺了，一切升级打怪和送宝指路，都安排地准确无误，也就显得电影无趣无聊。颜值低，也确实如此，不好意思真要跟着吐槽。
东方神龙打败西方恶龙，还有比这更正统的主旋律吗？
最差的漫威电影。剧情全程糊弄，从头尬到尾。大红大绿的配色low穿地心。唯一可取是动作设计还行，有成家班的味道。梁朝伟辛苦了。
总之,作为老外拍的神话片算是最好的一部,期待下一部
全亚裔出演，纯美式理解东方文化。除却不中不洋这个梗，我是衷心打五星的。因为，尚气的商品化太流畅了，就是一些剧情桥段的老梗都是如数家珍，仿佛这么多年形成的既定“东方美学通识”一样。奥卡菲娜老朋友了，继刘玉玲之后较眼順的亚裔演员。梁朝伟的拿捏更无懈可击。尚气加入漫威宇宙，我有什么理由去排斥一个亚裔身份的超级英雄呢。
女主可爱，九尾狐可爱，片尾曲可爱，剧情本身勉强算漫威及格线水平，从头到尾有种大家一起冷漠脸走流程的感觉，哦该打架了，哦该回忆了，哦邪神该出来了，哦老爹该便当了……文化元素方面尚可（开场那个尴尬的功夫熊猫风布景除外），不要当成中国文化，当成唐人街文化观看比较好。
即使放在整个MCU系列里，这部起源故事的质量也是能排在头三位的。动作设计精良（华纳说的就是你看看你的母体4再看看人家），填上了铁人3的坑，而且主创团队明显是认真研究过中国文化的（完全不是花木兰那回事），融合了西方的弑父以及东方的屠龙情结也足能看出其诚意，只可惜，他们只了解了中国文化，却对中国人毫不了解。最后只能祝福所有认为此片辱华的祖国人们永生永世只能看长津湖了——哦对不起，原来已经是了啊！（鼓掌
2021年，梁朝伟年近六十，我还能看到他的纯爱片。感谢天，感谢地，感谢漫威，感谢迪士尼。
超过预期。尽管故事内核仍是漫威英雄拯救世界那一套，但整个打戏呈现、元素符号、精神气质，都很东方。特别是动作戏非常惊艳，一拳一腿都干净利落，运镜自如，在荧幕上清晰可见，属于现实中可以操作的那一类功夫与武术，比国内外大片里的许多打斗场面好看太多。另外，实在不懂目前还在嚷嚷着辱华的评论，西方人眼中的中国就一定得是北上广繁荣夜景航拍？不能是金庸武侠世界里的中国？不能是《卧虎藏龙》里的中国？不能是《山海经》里的中国？我们扪心自问除了这些，现代中国又文化输出过什么呢？整个尚气世界把东西方文化交融得很和谐，也没踩我国的审查红线，不公映真的有些过分了蛤。
很神奇的观影体验。梁朝伟一出场尤其是现代装，仿佛打开了一部香港黑帮片或者王家卫电影。看到杨紫琼比试着太极又弄不清楚这是李安还是张艺谋的武侠片。陈法拉出现好像突然掉到TVB场景。梁朝伟手下出现拉回好莱坞英雄片。但是中英文奇妙地交叉，就不断把我从电影里打出来。必须时不时提醒自己这是漫威的妇联系列，但只有彩蛋好像有这个赶脚。缝合怪看得好出戏，但是黑豹也不这样啊。总之不论其他，也谈不上是一部好看的电影。主旨也很老套，痴情老爸熊孩子，完全无法共情主角。两颗星都给梁朝伟，贡献了唯一丰满完整的角色。虽然也很老套没给梁哥太多发挥余地。
还行吧。打戏确实漫威最高水平。主线有点奇怪，感觉故事的一大半都放在了梁朝伟演的角色上了，尚气的成长反而没有怎么着墨。你要非说梁朝伟演的是个反派，那他确实是漫威塑造的为数不多的出色反派。
我永远压亚洲人赢。。这台词很阴阳怪气。。。男主的爸爸不应该是梁朝伟应该是雷佳音啊。。梁朝伟被绿实锤~~XD
奥拉菲娜演的挺好的，之前某些媒体太恶意丑化了。片头唐人街取景好像蒙村，门牌号都一模一样，整部片子算是好莱坞流水线作品，但真没有感到恶意，后半部分和功夫熊猫3很神似，哈哈哈，还是值得推荐的。
从黑豹开始，我已经不太喜欢漫威的电影了。难看，各个方面。
Destin Cretton讲故事还是扎实的，父母爱情贯始至终grounded本片，文戏武戏都不错，故事线和人物动机清晰，光这点就强过太多商业片了。梁朝伟继灭霸后最佳反派，加上Awkwafina，就是各种艳压男主。(看完彩蛋意识到marvel has become the equivalent of tiktok for me omg
全片唐人街“左宗棠鸡”风味浓厚……唯一可看的还是男神梁朝伟……
视觉效果很棒，有更多的元素出现在这个宏大的宇宙里是好事。
赶紧上映，就想看这乳华破片扑街
2021-10-4阅。豆瓣影评“尚气全剧透”基本是瞎编。先前网上揭批黑豹设定辱非的一个手法就是把内容一一替换成中国刻板印象，让国人感受非洲人的心理。现在不用感受了：完全不如黑豹。黑豹至少还有点非洲未来主义美术（比如“外星科技长矛”啥的）。这片整个左宗棠鸡落后主义美术全方位巨丑无比，哪怕照着仙侠片拍至少能看，这塔罗“土著巫术长棍”算哪门子东亚奇幻。辱华吗？辱北美亚裔吧。12-18补了彩蛋。
梁朝伟对影片的反噬太大了。如果没有他，这不过是一个离我们遥远的奇幻故事。一个腹肌低配版的雷佳音主角也没什么问题。但是因为有了梁朝伟，他的每一个眼神都令其它人逊色，画面的每一次对切，都如同是隔着时代的项目对剪。他不是撑起全场，而是碾压全场。片甲不留。
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