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".
很多NBA球星客串，亚当桑德斯演的真好，埃尔南戈麦斯也是真的帅，爱德华兹演的真他妈坏。这绝对是部好电影。
影片拍得比較激情...剪辑方面很下功夫。 影片原声音乐加分。4星
会想到和威尔史密斯相比，亚当桑德勒对自己的职业明显更敬重，更有规划，更爱惜羽毛。犹太人的聪明劲儿。
很NBA（篮球迷狂欢），可惜太好莱坞（套路）
剧情无聊篮球更假。詹姆斯真的不会打球吧？“两米多的人冒了一米七的人三个：真厉害。”能监制出这种东西？不如拍林书豪传记
老套励志片我好像还是吃的，以及想起了高中时候那个追NBA的自己
不是球迷，这么多人客串出场我就只人的奥尼尔。所以从电影角度来说就是老一套，想要孤注一掷努力训练为了最后一次机会奋力拼搏但又失败了，互相吐露心迹，最后一刻又得到机会成功翻身，所以没啥太多的新意。倒是Adam演的50几的球探还不错。训练那里剪的挺好的，让人也想要全力奋斗拼搏，去享受生活。足球狗觉得要是足球训练我会觉得更燃
虽然想打高分，但真得有点尴尬，甚至都不怎么热血…
很常规的套路励志片，不过可以更系统地了解NBA的文化环境与工业运作，作为篮球观众体验还不错。
nba大型宣传片，do you love this game？故事稍显老套，不过体育题材就是这样，也不能说是太大缺点，作为篮球迷看看nba球员平时是怎么训练的，还有这么多名人堂以及现役球星客串还是很精彩的。另外当你在野球场大杀四方，人群中走出一个中年人跟你说我是球探你想打nba么，是每个篮球少年的梦想吧
虽然剧情很俗套，而且从西班牙街边直接进nba可信度太低，但不能否认我还是充满兴趣的看完了，首先小半个nba的球星都来捧场了，打球打的也挺专业，反正比空中大灌篮2好看多了。
虽然俗套，但NBA球迷的话还是会看的很开心
就电影本身比较一般，但是正片集结的大牌也太多了吧。像是篮球的巅峰群英荟萃，豪华盛宴，不仅 NBA 球星扎堆，连街球大佬也一一露相。除了乔丹科比詹，这里面出现的足够大牌了。只是小小的疑问一句，为何主队76人的片子却没有当家球星。。
拍得很工整的体育励志题材，符合类型片的所有元素和套路，起于寒微，识于伯乐、身负过往、决于一战的套路齐备，但真正的主角仍然是亚当·桑德勒饰演的球探，在寻找新人的路上，寄托了他的辛酸往事与理想抱负，当然，其实也是桑德勒自己对于篮球运动浓浓的爱，光是看各路NBA名人客串的阵容就知道他的人脉与热忱，大量彩蛋会让篮球迷津津乐道，属于私货提纯，粉丝订制的项目了。
因为不看篮球所以肯定会少很多惊喜和乐趣，不过这样的体育励志剧怎么拍都会好看
现在还拍这种美国梦是有点过时了，但球迷就是爱看吧。想不到76人队没落是因为老板去世。
3.5星，想去选秀的球员可以看看，简单了解一下垃圾话文化和新秀赛季吹罚尺度等信息
很典型的励志片，如果看内核是很简单甚至是俗套的，但是不得不说就是喜欢看这种剧情。印象最深的就是贯穿全片的那句“you against you”，我们永远都是在和自己比，比自己更强才是真正的强大。另外，真的请了好多大咖客串啊！
运动电影很难拍，要不就是好，要不就是不好，这一部当然是毋庸置疑的好。
很好看哎。运动员真是不容易。但老公一直在边上说，为什么一堆NBA 球星要陪个板凳都打不上的人演🤣演的蛮好的tho!
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