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".
這劇情最大敗筆就是在科技發達的未來社會，管理方面的落後理念還刻意停留在十九世紀某個年代那某種不成熟的製度框架內，然後就看片中角色人物一起如何搞文藝復興打破強權專製，所以總體來說這片煽動觀眾反對政府管製的造反情緒，但法國人生活的情趣浪漫卻是這片最大魅力所在。法國人還是玩文藝的高手。
一个可以讲出很多亮点的故事，不知道为什么非要选择那么多的感情桥段，浪费了好故事和好演员
蛮好看的科幻喜剧，机器人和人团结与敌对，很多巧思，不但探讨技术发展的未来，也在探讨人类的的当下。
一般的谍战片。不知是主创个人因素还是英国人都是这样的性格，电影把本来是一场宏大叙事背景下的一场真实谍战行动，表现得过于平淡，加上一场莫名奇妙的感情戏，更是加深了这种感觉，完全与行动的历史意义不匹配，更没有国产谍战片那种扣人心悬的紧张刺激感。
二战欧洲战场胜利的基础是斯大林格勒保卫战。苏联人在战场上战胜德国，英国人在报纸上战胜德国，美国人在好莱坞就可以战胜德国了。
小时候在世界之窗里看到的一个故事，所以一定要看看。
一群人在封闭场景的dynamic能拍好的都很有意思，人挺做作的，人工智能反倒真实
我始终不是特别能跟让皮埃尔热内对上电波，这部也不例外
中规中矩。两位男主对Jean心生情愫这种桥段过于戏剧化了些（尤其对一部根据历史真实事件改编且角色沿用原型人物原名的电影来讲，没必要）间接弱化了Jean对于行动成功的意义，电影对这个人物的刻画挺失败的，有点跑偏。达西*2的组合身着制服实在很有魅力，客串卡司亮眼。
P.S. 三重间谍那位牺牲真大😏
两代达西并肩作战，策划欺骗敌人的绞肉行动，娓娓道来他们给敌军送假情报的全过程，战争爱情故事十分感人。007系列的作者竟然也参与了这项工行动👍不过多角感情戏非常没有必要，完全可以去掉，革命友谊不香么😓
第一次看科幻式喜剧，虽然不会是爆笑的那种，但很有法国幽默风格，色彩饱和度高
想让智能干活的人类，想和人类接近的智能，各有自己的烦恼。另外，让渡“烦恼”也会增加烦恼。
这果然法国人的脑洞，机器人如果反了干嘛需要人类做宠物，瞎扯
让-皮埃尔·热内的最后一部！8/8✓不过这一部还是让人有点失望的，反正不及之前的作品那么让人舒适，实验科幻确实是实验……不对我胃口。但必须得承认，想象力依然爆棚且令人惊叹！
尽管取材自战争题材，但本片纯以文戏胜。整个欺敌计划瞒天过海交代得很清楚，大量的伪造细节展示，并努力展现敌我双方心理变化，烘托出紧张不安、焦灼等待的状态。除此之外，还有内斗和办公室恋情作为支线纠缠其中，使整个故事更加纠葛、更具复杂性和不确定性，但也使电影在叙述使推进略显缓慢。
故事背景太《黑镜》了
为什么非要谈感情，他老婆和孩子才刚离开几天，垃圾
热内都70了，还是这么调皮有趣。。豆瓣6.4，IMDB更惨才5.4，大家真严格。。
虽然夸张了点，整体还不错啊，机器人的乌托邦，人类的地狱天堂
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