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".
【2.0】那段把华纳黑成狗的对话很好笑吗？我只觉得狡辩高于幽默，不过是沃卓斯基姐妹为自身创作无能、为本片的失败提前找一个台阶下罢了。
黑客帝国4：解放崔妮蒂
how dare lana wochowski did the action coordinator job herself!!!!!!!!!!!! how!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 全片打斗声音和动作配不上，动作和动作也配不上！！！！剧本本身也不算差吧，剧情台词都在点子上，，毕竟沃卓斯基写剧本搞哲学思辨的水平还是可以的，而且黑客帝国，自由意志之类的概念完全不过时。但是整体的效果真的不太对，尤其是过多的插入了前三部的回放，（再加上过于自嘲的台词）不知道的人以为你拍纪录片将如何搞砸黑客帝国重启呢！！！想要拉拢老粉也要讲究基本法啊！！！不看抓心挠肝，看了后会，我宁愿这部片子没拍过。
去错影院迟到了10分钟，回家找下载版补完了。我不算系列的死忠粉，对前作的情节也基本没印象（好好好被你们说中我只记得「子弹时间」了），好在期间编导穿插了一些闪回片段，我看着看着还是想起了前三作大概的故事梗概。第四作算是完全舍弃了前三部里对世界真实和虚幻的哲学探讨（对「华纳」和前作的叙事元素动动嘴皮子来个吐槽，顺带提提电子游戏和社交网络的时代病不仅不从容反而令人心酸），完全退化成了二流好莱坞动作爽片：主线从「拯救人类于机器魔爪」变成了「拯救前女友」，动作场面滥用新版的「子弹时间」到令人厌烦，而天降「蜂群」无论是创意还是效果都全面输给速激8里的天降无人车，心疼老胳膊老腿还要亲身上阵的里维斯和莫斯。《超感猎杀》的班底未免人也太多了吧，沃夫冈的造型我是完全没认出来。@红星电影世界吴中路店
这片就是拿钱拍着玩的。前面还好后面无聊，人家本来能打拍成JW4也行啊干嘛非用气 功。配乐和视效不错，我还是回去听原声专11首remix吧
看看黑3里的雨中大战，再看看这里面的“釜山行”，艺术就是被你们这群sb给玩没的！
Lana狗尾续貂，Sense 8版炒冷饭…为了重温Neo和Trinity 的爱情故事，agent Smith也洗白…可惜这波情怀连老粉都买不了账…
情怀加一星，我希望自己没看过这部续集，就如同我希望自己不会老一样，万事万物皆有兴衰，我看过它的荣耀，也得接受它的破烂……
看了一个半小时了，啥也没说等于。这个冷饭炒🉐️。不如再看一遍前三部。
作者自己大概也深知：本片不太可能在三部曲已足够完整的世界观和议题框架下有所突破，难免透着可有可无的强行续编感。
差强人意吧，努力搞出了一些悲喜难明的名场面
7分，虽然没看过前三部，但在同学的简单讲解下还是能基本理解事件背景和这部电影的故事。现实和代码世界的界限逐渐模糊，代码世界里的生活重复却平静，现实的生活险恶但真实，是留在日复一日的平静中，还是挣脱代码的束缚回归现实，答案早已在对自由和爱的追求中注定。（好久没在荧幕上见到小乔和Max了，还是好帅😍，爱了）
草莓，摩托车，起飞
他们明确表示，如果我们不合作，他们将终止我们的合同。
看得出导演有多不想拍第四部了😂，满满的怨念，不肯走传统好莱坞俗套，所以讲了大篇幅世界观，两小时只有二十分钟是动作戏，你要说烂又感觉导演没把观众当傻子，要说不烂嘛我又看瞌睡了好几回😂一直想着咋还没完呢。
我是有多想不开在跨年夜花160一张的票钱去看这么个烂片……本作根本是挂羊皮卖狗肉，和预告片可以说毫无关系，唯一的看点在于沃卓斯基姐弟（妹？）的官方吐槽：“我们的老板华纳非要我们拍续集，我们就拍了”（摊手）。
按正常理解，2-3星，很失望；按我的另类理解，5星神作。我的长影评近日贴出。
竟然这么低分，可能过分反应现实的内容会刺痛很多人的自我认知吧。解构与元叙事，文本太扎实了，除了那个小程序被解释地有点潦草，整体来说还是超乎意料的。
你是谁？从哪来？到哪去？时隔二十年的《黑客帝国4》以「影迷」熟悉又陌生的方式重启。电影里，带着「拯救」任务的下位者需要「领袖」尼奥来偶遇、怀疑和确认自己，而带着《爱的困惑》的尼奥则需要「镜像」崔妮蒂来帮他进入游戏。可惜，二者并非对立统一关系。与其同性给同性诊断，不如换个「异性」视角来看：贝托鲁奇拍《小活佛》时52岁，沃卓斯基「兄弟」姐妹重启《黑客帝国》时56/54岁，艺术家到了「知天命」年纪，为此，这部科幻作品里最接地气的部分反而是游戏开发者的「自我迷失」困局：现实/玩家与虚拟/角色重叠在了一起，瞬间进入「游戏」的玩家分不清现实与虚拟，渐渐淡出「游戏」的角色不知道「我」是谁，从哪来，又要到哪去。于是，深陷「自我」怀疑。最终，艺术家在枯燥的现实中找到了生命的意义，普通人在神奇的游戏中体验到了活着的乐趣。
我完全是因为错误的原因喜欢这个，但导演对华纳和娱乐产业的“明涵”，让我觉得全片有非常符合加速和躺平时代气质，哈哈哈哈哈。
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