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".
我对喜剧的要求全部满足，看的过程中明显感受到日本舞台剧的味道（其实并不喜欢日本表演风格里的用力过猛），小梗不断。魏翔可以，终于完成了他的男一号，相比其他几个麻花男演员的表演，魏翔这部充分展现了他的层次，好演员遇到好片子，难得。
别拿魔幻主义来作为以上缺点的解释。
从开头的世界观的非现实布景就觉得本片大致没有什么逻辑可言，全片看完也觉得角色的行为设定矛盾太多了。作为喜剧片来看，笑点差点意思。魏翔的表演还是有一点用力过猛，台词功力比起沈腾还是有差距的。
春节档最期待的一部了，果然没有失望，全程笑点无尿点，搞笑还是得看开心麻花！魏翔很有才华，未来可期！
1、看完才发现本片翻拍自妻夫木聪主演的日本电影《魔幻时刻》。2、电影很有荒诞幽默的风格。灯光、布景的舞台剧风格明显，表情也比较夸张，也是话剧风。3、可能因为魏成功太想当男一号了，真的相信那没有摄影机也能拍摄的无稽之谈，别人就说他是傻子吧，以至于魏成功杀了哈维之后，吉米真把他当傻子逗。然而最后魏成功用自己当演员的经验，还是把米兰给救出来了。
剧情比较简单，笑点也很浅，整个氛围像是在车墩大片场拍了个情景剧，剧本杀，类比像是《扬名立万》。挺适合春节档大家一起乐呵乐呵的，很有商业属性的喜剧片。
各方面都乏善可陈，如果是原创的话还勉强可以接受，然而作为翻拍片，比照葫芦画瓢都画的如此之差，黑色喜剧变无聊闹剧，那就实在不可原谅了。1星半。
人生如戏，戏如人生
俗套+生搬，电影院里倒是笑声不断，可见普罗大众还是欢喜的。#20220208
#补标# 开心麻花失去创作力了吗？这两年马丽遭遇了什么？表演简直灾难…
一部很少见的黑帮元素喜剧，讲述演员的修养。真有趣！这不正意味着生活就像一场戏，完全取决于表演技巧
即兴表演：一个没有天赋的主角在苦中作乐……
5.当个博人一笑的小品看就行了，卖弄的表演风格也是迎合了长久浸染在媚俗的社会审美趣味的观众。戏剧电影重舞台，表演腔，跳脱现实本无可厚非。但改编，只是单纯的加快节奏、缩短篇幅、比原版更加通俗易懂，甚至看不出任何“有意义的再创作”意愿。作为电影，创作者更是不具备对电影语言使用的自觉。
原版《魔幻时刻》没有多惊艳但有情怀，是一封给老电影、电影人的情书，像一碗白米饭，没有多好但细细咀嚼会有甘甜。翻拍的《这个杀手不太冷静》只有无聊和尴尬，往本来的白米饭里参屎。
马丽魏翔太好笑啦简直就是喜剧的模本，精彩的剧情和演技
对得起春节档的一部片子吧，在我这儿7.5分。魏翔老师有几个镜头愣是给我感觉好像刘奕君。
没抱多大期望，没想到笑点密集，翻拍本土化处理挺好，某些影迷梗也还算有趣，中间一首穿插的《天才白痴梦》真的是神来之笔！魏翔演技很不错，最后的花絮确实挺令人动容，魏翔其实更多是在演自己，戏里戏外都是第一次演主角
喜剧桥段没有逻辑是无厘头，连所有的剧情都没有逻辑，就是烂片了，梦回新喜剧之王。
符合春节档的一贯气质，气质归气质，但看着实在太尴尬了
比春晚还要尬，就是一加长版的小品，时间线完全错乱，驴头不对马嘴的各种经典电影的乱入，使劲儿出洋相，出怪腔，搞怪样，这种努力很用力的搞笑的样子是最可笑的，喜剧最切记的就是用力过猛，用力过猛就是闹剧，中国好的喜剧电影从十七年电影以来就很少，闹剧倒是像老母鸡下蛋一样，扑哧扑哧的一泡又一泡
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