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".
5.0分。原本对和这部《失控玩家》题材类似的《头号玩家》并不满意，但如今看了《失控玩家》之后才算体会到斯皮尔伯格在视听上的想象力和操控力的确业内顶级。跟《头号玩家》比起来，《失控玩家》不过是一部学生作品，在视听和故事层面的乏力让它只能选择用《死侍》般的插科打诨来填充，以致于喜剧元素成了本片唯一有记忆点的地方，但它的主类型明明是（软）科幻啊。这两部高下显著的电影，却都有同样一个颇具讽刺意味的地方——《头号玩家》一方面用最华丽的特效强调着游戏世界里的百无禁忌和无所不能，一方面又在虚伪地劝告你“现实才是唯一的真实”；《失控玩家》则是先打造了一个可以任玩家为所欲为的游戏世界，然后又让这个世界成为追求温良恭俭让的现实世界的翻版，不妨说它们的创作者都在言不由衷地撒谎，都在最后时刻背叛了自己的表达。
童心未泯，有趣。雷诺兹太有魅力，结尾女主选择搭档，虽然这才是真爱，但实在是让我意难平。特效创意很棒。
想象力很一般，片中描述的场景现今技术完全可以做到，只是还到不了消费级市场而已。游戏中的NPC觉醒之后就知道跟玩家谈恋爱？真不知道是看不起AI还是看不起人类。
一部披着华丽外衣的俗套故事，但是依然看得好爽啊！NPC们其实就是一个个楚门，每天说着一样的口头禅，重复着一样的生活，但不同的是他们得靠自己成为自己的主角！
解压爆米花大片，无脑爽，随便看。不过自从瑞安演了小贱贱爆火，从此他演什么都像小贱贱了。不知道这对于一个演员来说是好事还是坏事。
吻戏不错，我好俗，塔伊加·维迪提实在是精神折磨
角度既新奇又刁钻
Half-a-brain and barely written kind of fun?
原以为是这个时代的《玩具总动员》，结果不过是又一部《头号玩家》👎🏻
shawn levy好会拍轻喜爱情片，感觉全世界只有我是冲着导演去看的haha。就当是去还约会之夜欠的电影票
里面很多成龙的，东方武侠的动作元素。还有妇联的梗。有元宇宙的感觉。最后游戏公司老板没有必要拿斧头去毁服务器吧？断电，或者之前的重启都可以啊。都砍坏了，就留着最后那个服务器让女主和AI来操作？也是一个浪漫的设定，工具人的底层是AI.看着这些工具人每天干着重复的事情，被人重复杀掉，也很像《西部世界》里的机器人。
至少是真的玩游戏的人拍出来的，而不是披个游戏皮实际在鄙视玩家。窗帘倒影的线索确实是这几年商业片中数一数二的包袱，比什么倒车通关高明一万倍。斯皮尔伯格真的玩过一天游戏吗？
13.08.2021 | @ Regal Majestic | 比头号玩家好看！YTT这浮夸的造型和表演别说，还真就是适合他。当红streamers集体电影首秀的全家欢嘛倒也就那样了。
没有什么思想深度是真的，拿了一个好框架，但是讲了一个挺土气的故事。有很多可以往深处再挖掘的点，但是最终啥都没有挖掘，做了一个PG13的土到冒泡的青春爱情片。 Free guy最终没有free啊，最后的结尾其实把整个电影的精神内核给反掉了。
头号玩家+楚门的世界
7.0/10 分。初看，蓝光。合格的商业片。剧情比较薄弱，人物角色反而比较有趣。娱乐性真的不错，好莱坞这点比天朝各种上纲上线强多了。不过也就属于快餐式爆米花了。瑞安·雷诺兹，这么多年来演技基本没啥突破，偏偏牢牢站稳了一线，也是有点意思。本片打6分我觉得低了，打8分我又觉得太高了。。。弱智的5星豆瓣评分系统。。。
男女主最后在一起了
哈哈哈，这可能是今年最欢乐的一部电影了，特别是你如果是个资深的RPG玩家和自由世界的探索者，你就会在这片子里分分钟笑歪～太多挤兑游戏公司和玩家习惯的细节描写了，菜鸟玩家和金牌玩家在现实中的宅态对比，太写实了～不过因为是大众娱乐，一些低龄玩家涌入限制级游戏的问题，游戏中的行为导向问题，都有些隔靴搔痒之嫌～包括作为主线的智能觉醒，相比《西部世界》也浅显了许多，而且也欢快了许多，把触发因子归结到“爱情”魔力上就有点俗气了～剪辑师绝对是结构严谨的处女座：0:45第一吻，1:00危机高潮，1:15第二吻，1:45终结吻～小贱贱不断联动自己的电影，美队的盾绿巨人的拳头都是信手拈来，连杀手保镖的公主抱都不放过，我觉得女主更惊艳一些，把皮裤辣妹和宅女设计师演绎得独立鲜明～（片名应该叫《放飞自我的货》）
你是现实和虚拟之间的桥梁……主题上更接近《异次元骇客》
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。
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