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".
看到汤姆汉克斯，就知道这肯定是一部很中规中矩的电影，没有惊喜，和汉克斯这些年的表演一样毫无波澜。电影里面刻意加了很多烂俗情节，三星片只能变成两星片。
四星+。社恐者看了无比舒适，孤独的最高境界。热爱生命，热爱生活，唯独讨厌人类。
明明是平淡的故事，我却感受到了浓烈的孤独。
絕望崩潰的世界，人性是通往希望的唯一道路。
看到汤姆汉克斯，就知道这肯定是一部很中规中矩的电影，没有惊喜，和汉克斯这些年的表演一样毫无波澜。电影里面刻意加了很多烂俗情节，三星片只能变成两星片。
220611UC在线1：55：17。关于今天，是历史最差的一天，又是未来最好的一天！什么都没说，又什么都说了。
9分。人类永远是最可怕的，即使是在末日。机器人却是最温暖的，虽然杰夫才被创造出来几天，但芬奇身体状况堪忧，他不得不快速成长，细腻的他在学习的时候还能细心地体会到情感的变化，真是厉害，不由地让我想起最近在看的《克拉拉与太阳》里的克拉拉。芬奇为了自己的狗伙伴创造了一个智能机器人，可见人类对情感的依赖始终不变。末日虽可怕，但情感弥足珍贵，不管是哪种形式的。
故事愈简单，况味愈深。尤其是在今年看到，代入感是当年观看瓦力时所不能想象的。也是这部片子让我第一次去思考机器人与人类的关系，Finch教Jeff技能的时候，用了机器人三定律的模版，但内容更近似一个父亲教儿子如何谋生。我发觉对于我们的星球而言，机器人永远不能脱离人类的范畴，所谓机器人，无非是人类超越肉体生物性最远的一次尝试。机器人的属性，中文名的字面便可完全解释。机器人就是人类，他使用的是人类的逻辑和情感，他也就会因这样的逻辑和情感或繁荣或毁灭。所以，片中的Jeff和杜威之所以显得比人类更有人性，也是因为对于他们而言，环境对于他们的机体没构成毁灭性的挑战。如果有一天，地球变成机器人也不能运行的样子，他们之间为了生存也一样会冷酷无情。我们人类的历史就停在那一天，也是很好的结局。
一人一狗一AI，符合我對末日的想像。 2021.12.4 in.Tokyo
整部电影都非常喜欢，尤其是最后的平静的死亡场景，我希望我最后的死亡也能向电影中的那样，平静，祥和，接受。
对毛茸茸的小可爱没有抵抗力。
不功不过，娓娓道来。实话说没有特别被感动到。汉克斯演技真好，机器人和狗都好萌。
男人的浪漫。虽然机器人的设定有那么多缺陷感觉是硬找冲突，但那最后一抱真的爆哭，汤姆汉克斯太强...逻辑不重要了，只剩下温情，2021需要这片子
15分钟的东西拍了115分钟。杰夫造型可人儿。
“一个国家的尊严就等同于它给女性的尊严。”
剧情比较简单，一人一狗一机器人，末日后公路片，结局可预见，温情可期待。
我们现在看印度电影，看韩国电影都陷入了一种下意识的“相对尺度”感叹，但是从“绝对尺度”上来讲，很多片子的质量是不行的，只是因为他们触碰的议题使得我们给出高分，这其实很令人感慨。这个电影铺满了音乐，每十分钟就安排慢镜头煽情，从任何角度去看都很陈旧。人们的共情共的都是电影之外的东西。
今日份的感动。怎么最近看的片子都是有关世界末日的。（某视频网站上的弹幕们到了世界末日还在区分国别，真是无趣。）
末日公路片，看似很孤独却又并不孤独…期待出个续篇看五六年后的Jeff
这么老套的电影，Tom Hanks是闲不住吗，这种电影他还没拍烦吗。豆瓣为什么这么多喜欢老式温情片的人，当然我被坑的最惨的一次还是三傻大闹好莱坞。
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