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".
一部很钻牛角尖的作品，在并没有共情点的细节上反复琢磨，把女主露西对戏剧表演精益求精的匠人之心拍成了对观众的煎熬。在选旨上小题大作，在台词上拐弯抹角，大费周章地设计的两条时间线，由于没有凸显逻辑关联，使情景切换显得颠倒错乱。夫妻之间互相迁就与成就的克制情感，在别扭的自卑和高光的奉献之间横跳，露西有指挥官一般强烈的主见和控制欲，但又拒绝成为新女性，习惯在舞台上扮演傻气的家庭主妇博君一笑只为修复一场婚姻。当反差只是反差，却缺乏解释的支点，便无法靠近人物、理解人物。电视里的古怪人物在一部传记片的呈现后，仍然还像电视里看到的那般疏远，这样的传记便很无效。妮可基德曼坚持不懈的填充拉皮已经让她的骨和肉不太对付，却符合这部电影略显装腔作势的调性。
又是大爽文，最后十五分钟高能。不过技法上还是有些技巧的，偏斜的摄影机增强紧张感和不确定。虽然很多高智能产品了，最终打败boss还是土法炼钢那套。还顺便表达了怪人帮怪人，抱团取暖。
apple google amazon都没想着冠名赞助一下这部电影吗？语音助手从来没以这么正面的形象出现在电影中过吧。。最恐怖的看来还是人心
一般般，比较少见的反映智能电子产品正面的设定。虽然只有不到90分钟，主线简单支线却很散，部分运镜还可以。床戏裸露真的可有可无，只当福利。互相偷窥神TM换来个莫名其妙的见义勇为。还以为结局要和肥宅在一起呢，结果就是一个挡刀的路人甲。记住两个知识点：钉枪绷住当枪使，杀人能治社恐症。
HBO MAX流媒体线上，独立大导史蒂芬索德伯格执导，人工智能大战坏蛋，美式幽默+英式冷笑话。说到底这还是一个人和人斗的故事，人工智能的作用在于扩大和戏剧化影片中的矛盾。然而现实中就是人工智障。
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妮可熨斗般平整的脸让我直到影片的后半段才顿悟它讲了两个不同时间段的故事。
很俗套的一个故事，被加了一个AI设备的外壳，再加上一个好导演，就好看了。编剧细节处理的不错。本片可能是今年最容易被忽略的一部小成本影片。
几条叙事线交叉进行，中间为了真实还有很多插叙采访，感觉有点混乱；Nicole Kidman现在的外形倒是和Lucille Ball相差甚远，但她这次的表演还挺感情充沛，不是歇斯底里；对Lucille Ball不算很熟悉，但通过这个电影对她产生了一种探索欲
后新冠隔离外出恐惧症，企业应用强行获取生物信息，全球化住家外包黑客个资侦探，俄罗斯雨伞暗杀，社运示威人民帮人民，关键时刻男友不及肥宅，家装达人斗刺客……索德伯格数字摄影风黑片依旧乱来得很开心
艾伦索金擅长营造的是那种每个决定都牵涉着他人命运的紧张感，在这个小题材里显得有点施展不开拳脚，剪辑也有点太花里胡哨
我滴妈我这才发现索德伯格已经在五年内连拍四个网大了……不过单从此片来看高产量外加大数据倒也没让他丢了手艺。剧本和形式大体是有意思的，但反派未免也太弱智了些
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妮可的表演很棒，将女主的性格完全展示了出来，最后发现丈夫出轨到忘词那段是高光，但影片还是有点混乱
另外，闪回的插入把剪辑和节奏确实拖得不轻。
时间线很混乱，叙事也平淡，就看看Nicole养眼吧
昨晚看的，现在依然沉浸在后半段的悲伤情绪里出不来。我觉得妮可好的地方在于，她演的是一个真正的女人，锁金写剧本先把她当做一个女人再去填充其他符号，但是电影前半段确实拖沓没重点，虽然我觉得这是今年好莱坞少有的真正写女人的电影。Kidman除了长得不像，口音学的不错诶，而且声音本来就像，真正情景剧的场景不多，所以还好。如果Debra Messing来演肯定演不了这么好，毕竟她只是喜剧演员
不管什么原因，片场践踏其他工作人员成果，越俎代庖的自大狂，控制狂，自恋狂，看起来就是令人作呕
心理障碍拍的很潦草 最后一顿反杀来的莫名其妙
几条叙事线交叉进行，中间为了真实还有很多插叙采访，感觉有点混乱；Nicole Kidman现在的外形倒是和Lucille Ball相差甚远，但她这次的表演还挺感情充沛，不是歇斯底里；对Lucille Ball不算很熟悉，但通过这个电影对她产生了一种探索欲
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