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".
「有一个美丽的小女孩，她的名字叫做小威。她有双温柔的眼睛，她悄悄偷走我的心。小威呀，有个姐姐叫大威。你们姐妹代表美国网球队。小威呀你到底随谁？你们姐妹都是一样黑。」
目前7.3太低了，拍得挺走心，有趣，享受就对了
结尾处理的比《摔跤吧》高级，出淤泥而不染和名利双收本就是矛盾体。
轻飘飘的讲了一个传奇故事，关于幸运、努力、rage、天赋和教育。
动不动代表所有的黑人女孩
体育电影从来没让人失望过，永远能从里面获得力量。
# 有赖大小威姐妹的参与，服装/装备的高还原程度令人信服。
拍片的水准很高，故事也讲的很走心，特别一颗星献给理查德，虽然很多人想他如此坚持都没有成功，但因为他的存在让更多人有信心坚持做自己！
史皇的演技Ok，可惜导演没能力深入这个角色。
【7.5】自己的成功需要谦虚，他人的尊重需要赢得，不公的权利需要斗争，实现这一切，还需要整个家庭的互相理解与支持。运动片的尾段总有一场盛大又揪心的比赛，没赢也算是不落俗套，而这一切又是成功的开始，是必不可少的过程，这让片尾罗列的“实绩”更加震撼。全片生活气息很浓，所有人都活力十足，观感自然舒适，非要说差点什么，可能就是太“正”了吧。
对不起 看到一半睡着了 当然 可能是因为我太困了
知道名字叫理查德，但是没办法还是想看大威小威，虽然她们充当了背景板。世界前二，多次女单决赛对决是她们，女双冠军是她们，还能有这样的传奇吗。
剧本是奔着正能量励志去的，而且只拍到大姐出道。不过老爹的一些个性已经展露无遗。只能说现实世界一定更精彩。
作为非洪粉，甚至洪黑，三星都给敏后了。太逆天了，这真的是在拍电影吗？还是在秀恩爱？洪在摄影机后面和敏后互相表露爱意，为了敏后和她手中的花而将影像转为了彩色。像室外等所有高光区域全部过曝这种问题，是铁定的技术瑕疵啊，虽然我知道他也不care… 从电影节抢人的角度来看，那柏林是相当成功了，为自己争夺嫡系作者，从而建立稳固关系，按照近几年柏林这么疯狂的给奖，下一次还不得给洪金熊？另外洪的这种创作方式和制作模式在疫情的大环境之下确实体现出了优越性。
如此值得玩味的人物性格与其之间的关系，竟然轻描淡写地组织成了一部浓浓的鸡汤电影，体育竞技中的那些残酷与反人性元素完全没有展现。倒还不如直接去掉人物性格的阴暗面还有结尾的伪反高潮，直接拍成当幸福来敲门那种励志到底的电影，还能更好地造梦一把赚取眼泪。
所谓的种族主义参杂女性主义
7/10。比起King Richard，其实叫Despot Richard可能更符合片子的调性：对跨越阶层的名利和成功毫不掩饰地推崇，对竞技体育带来的种族平权毫不吝惜地赞美，顺便把价值判断的权利留给了观众。剧本挺厚实，Will Smith又一次扮演了一个伟大父亲角色，标准的冲奖季电影。
比近几年的几部都好一些，幽默感大增所以观影很愉快，加上夹带很多洪导自身状态的私货，看得时候时常被逗乐，感觉是洪导和金敏喜最近状态的自嘲。当然还是少不了聊天喝酒抽烟以及翻来覆去地夸金敏喜，夸得人翻白眼。对，这次有彩色的金敏喜了以及一大波狗粮砸头，就问你酸不酸爽。
体育可以脱贫，穷人家的孩子又练不起体育。年轻人要摆脱自己的生存环境，中年人明白求人不如求己。
又是一部披着体育传记外皮的黑人电影，就正儿八经的拍一部正常的电影不行吗，为了得奖必须要往政治正确上靠吗？
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