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".
我挺喜欢开头的，然后，然后就都不怎么喜欢了，哦对了，lady gaga和司机演的还行
【7.5】这一大家子精彩的爱恨情仇啊，我合理怀疑这是一部喜剧片，全是荒诞的黑色幽默。片子很一般，很多剧情特突然，有点在糊弄的感觉。（给ashes to ashes整整一颗星星🥰）（第五十五分钟才认出莱托...）
光鲜亮丽的流水账，Irons和Pacino还是很厉害的～
片尾才注意到是雷德利·斯科特大导的作品，实在大跌眼镜，观影过程睡了醒醒了睡。Gaga 太出戏。Gucci 创始人从豪华酒店行李员起步，在意大利老家开创品牌。离世后将商业帝国分给三个儿子。二儿子过世后，老大老三各持 50%股份。老大努力经营品牌，但其子不成事。老三的儿子仪表堂堂，但志不在家族企业里。直到Gaga上位，在老三的反对下，嫁给老三的儿子。随后，夫妻二人一步步将大儿子送入大狱，拿下大孙子的少数股权。老大出狱后检举三孙子的税务问题。三孙子也嫌弃 Gaga 过多涉足家族企业事务，另寻新欢，Gaga 老羞成怒买凶杀夫。
拍的稳倒是挺稳 可就是没啥意思 唯一的趣味点是lady嘎嘎的造型 每一套 每一身衣服 都像是什么温州女老板 让人出戏哈哈哈哈
这个电影把时尚产业的肤浅鄙陋刻画得淋漓尽致，那些沾不上半点艺术皮毛的排列组合，以及哗众取宠的视觉效果，之所以能受到世人的追捧，归根结底来于这些古老品牌的傲慢与偏见——崇古的傲慢与审美的偏见。它呼吸着工业文明的空气，散发出商业的腐臭。尽管男女主人公的感情生活符合一般规律，没有多少悬念，但人性的演绎依然震撼人心，正因女主人公太平凡太世俗，才使得这场斗争变得异常惊心动魄。
说英语的摩西，说英语的法国贵族，说英语的意大利人……莱托……真是认不出来。开始有点怀疑那是不是莱托是因为他的意大利口音有一丢丢演过了，boof. 海耶克挺有意思的。老司机在安妮特、最后的决斗、婚姻故事里扮演了不一样的渣男，各有各的渣，也挺有意思。这个故事好像反打了教父的故事，女主是最意大利的，她做的这些事情，想要保住古驰家族股份这些策略最后证明都是对的，暗杀什么的不也是像教父这种电影，拍出来让大家挺崇拜的吗？但是在这里……她是个罪犯，还得蹲监狱。海耶克和lady gaga在一块太搞笑了，如果她俩是主角应该挺有意思的。
大柔光我确实不太喜欢。还停留在用肉体疼痛表现内心痛苦的层面，高中生时期的感情幼稚一点我还能接受，一直到三十岁还用很梦幻手法表现未免太表面。
1. 兩位導演的品味比較差，角色有感情起伏時打雷下雨在95分鐘的電影裡竟然出現了三次，無論鏡頭再怎麼追求日式柔光，也掩蓋不了由此而來的粵語殘片即視感；2. Renci首擔大旗，演技有點飄忽不定，如果清楚演員極限，將鏡頭適當地拉遠些效果會更好；3. 片末獨舞完全發揮不了感人的功能，非常尷尬做作，使全片結束在這氛圍下，亦回應了本短評的第一句；4. 劇本以拼湊為主，基本上都是同類電影中的即食材料，尚欠打磨，以致人物描寫比較浮泛；5. 有彈有讚：新娘房一幕的鏡頭擺位不錯，現實中明明是對望的兩人，透過鏡子的反射卻望向相反的方向，如果多一些這樣的電影語言，多好。
中间睡了好几次，分三天看完。似乎挺好的故事，怎么拍成这样？古驰家族出面干涉了吗？
雷神的处理怎会如此平庸，实在令人乍舌。一众好演员始终救不了剧本的“面面俱到面面不到”。故事到底要拍什么非常含混：倘若写的就是帕特利奇亚那么不如强化她的视点和感受；倘若写家族衰败就无需从帕特利奇亚和毛里齐奥初识讲起。另外一大败笔是演员的选择，演员是好演员，单故事开始时，帕与毛都是25岁，Gaga和德赖弗却都是四十岁的脸，没有天真的欲望，有的是只是城府。甚至old school与fashion的差异也没拍出来，倒是保罗出场的家庭球赛有趣。有趣的是美国人还是单纯，拍宫斗也斗得忒小儿科，最遗憾的是毛里齐奥的复杂性被吞噬了，这大约是李治一样的人物，借了武则天的手去铲除异己，当被推到权力漩涡中时，权力就是肾上腺素让人欲罢不能。影像上也很电视电影感，所以真不如做成迷你剧，可写就的也丰富些。
嘎子姐演得是真的好，口音加外形我以为她重新投胎去意大利了，但是这个故事是拍得真无趣啊……又被预告骗了
我真的对什么“最好的朋友”这种屁话ptsd了ok？？？
Gaga的演出油腻且表面，每次用力怒目圆睁的时候我总担心她的眼球会掉出来。
故事平庸，但雷德利的导演风采，嘎嘎的演技依然赏心悦目
看剧照觉得好土，影院看了又觉得好美......富不过三代，name是个诅咒，你们本来都可以幸福。
难看就算了，最可怕的其实是无聊，怎么可以这么无聊，甚至都没有什么值得说道的片段。
海报还是好看的。太久没看亚洲les片有被尬到，演技比较差，咱就是说，虽然你们是直的，但是拍戏也是可以张嘴的好吗……看得我有点燥，太多无意义的废话台词，女主突然去找个男的do令我瞳孔地震
唉，真系烦sei，就算听得明也某用，有字幕就好勒，你俩架葛感情我真系搞唔明。
片子是比最后的决斗好的，lady Gaga的演技一言难尽
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