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".
觉醒的AI，存档再来的西部世界。即便算不上多新鲜的创意，电影也拍得非常流畅。然而，对于所表现和歌颂的游戏NPC，电影再努力，也只是游戏的向下兼容成品，如同没能面世的“自由世界2”。
程序员的浪漫最为致命：“我就像一封专属于你的情书”
以舊瓶裝新酒的形式，講了一個符合這個時代的故事。
初看是拒绝stoic，结尾却是人生剧本早已写定，非常的Epictetus。
说不出哪里特别好，也说不出哪里不好，反正……就像那句歌词：何不游戏人间？
电影的故事有些《楚门的世界》与《头号玩家》结合之感，不过剧情的趣味度却逊色一筹。主角盖的成长历程联想到《乐高大电影》的艾米特，从一开始的平凡普通人逐渐转变成拯救世界的英雄。作为已被迪士尼收购的20世纪福克斯的作品，电影虽然出现了诸如美国队长盾牌、绿巨人手臂、《星球大战》光剑等彩蛋，但于我的惊喜度还是不及华纳大秀版权的《头号玩家》以及迪士尼《无敌破坏王2》的「去到迪士尼网站」的部分。P.S.：电影中的三个基情段落 → 瑞安·雷诺兹与查宁·塔图姆近距离对话、Dude抱着Guy走路、盖与巴迪像米莉与键盘那般在街上拥抱。& 瑞安·雷诺兹在《疯狂原始人》中配音的角色名叫盖 Guy，在《失控玩家》中饰演的人物也名为盖 Guy。-13876
當他們進入了新世界「自由之城」時，黑人小哥問 Guy「沒有銀行我們可以做什麼？」Guy 說「做一切你想做的」同樣是解開槍帶，槍落地，但此時就完全是另一種意味和象徵了。
结局还挺好，但大boss的能力就是砸服务器？！Taika估计自己演的时候也很郁闷吧…
好玩儿 特别棒 NPC自我觉醒的故事 The Trueman Show + Ready Player One + a bit of The Matrix
漏洞多，尬点多。最大的亮点是掏出美国队长盾牌挡一拳，然后克里斯埃文斯在电脑上看。
整部片子总结下来应该就是——I'm your Guy，can you here me？
极度娱乐化的外观之下，是严肃的存在主义内核。
好久没在大屏幕看到这么精彩的商业片了 前一个小时剧情信息量爆炸 虽然雷诺兹这个人黑历史一堆 但是身材真的太好了 普通的卡其色裤子配蓝色短袖的工装都那么有型。。。 女主一个人拉高了其他所有人演技水平
电影结尾处男女主角大团圆那场戏，如果在两人穿过车流时被汽车撞飞，醒来发现自己也是NPC，那就可以考虑飞向《银翼杀手》那种级别了。
出乎意料的好看😄太喜欢这种AI觉醒的设定了，配上游戏的背景太有趣了！啾迪太帅了！！！
4.5 私心很喜欢，尤其是八十年代那摇曳而迷幻的音乐，飘荡在醉人的巴黎的夜，仿佛是那抚慰人心的电波，温暖夜归的人。极小极平常的故事却拍出了对时代的追缅和对城市的热爱，叙事和表演滴水不漏，简直是以小见大拍电影的范本。
看起来很轻松欢笑的电影，不要刻意去想太多逻辑问题，只需要开开心心的就好了。 Ps: 结尾朋友问我，你们机房也长这样嘛，好好看。我和他说，我们上云了……
看第一遍的时候，比较容易陷入数彩蛋的乐趣中，就像平时看超英片，看头号玩家一样。但影片真正的优秀之处，我觉得还是情感部分的呈现，这让整个故事即好看，又走心。
3.意想不到的是问题出在我和一起看的女孩子都是多年从事游戏行业的…游戏里的一些关于开发的设定极其脆弱甚至根本不合逻辑，我们出来吐槽了大概20分钟。不过最后还是觉得，电影是面相更大众的，他的娱乐使命确实很好的达到了，迪士尼的IP随便用确实很土豪，影院里惊呼与笑声此起彼伏已经说明了他作为娱乐片本身的素质是足够的。
文戏太糟糕了，npc不想做游戏里的工具人，却成为了编剧随时随地洒鸡汤的工具。但总体来说，观影过程还是很享受的，从故事到角色再到一些怀旧梗，无不体现了好莱坞电影工业流水线的完熟。作为一个经常沉迷游戏的人，也非常能代入玩家的视角，惊叹于虚拟开放世界的各种可能。把爱意写成代码，制成npc，过于言情了，但是真的挺浪漫。
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