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".
我还是觉得《生死有时》的译名更贴题。
a lot of time to sleep.
古城上天入地飞摩托肉搏driveby围剿，老兵新丁喝酒杀人鸳鸯火药探戈，碰碰车漫天翻丛林雾战缆绳多用，三场动作大戏设计都颇为有趣，然后估计拍摄档期撞到疫情没精力琢磨了，结尾高潮日式毒花园是蠢到真的有毒，完全对不起谢幕作之称；福永导演史最差作？007终于轮到长相身材都很难被男性凝视物化的女黑人来演了，像kinder出奇蛋一样一次过满足晒三个愿望 : )
讲几个脑洞：
2.看了James捧着Felix的脸的样子，才知道他对邦女郎有多敷衍
这个007要谢幕了，大家都等着他谢幕，大家都在想他会怎么谢幕，大家都在想他会怎么死，大家都等着他死，他果然死了，这个007终于死了，死透了，oh yeah！
PWB存在感也太强了！蕾老师美得不可方物。
邦德也越来越跟潇洒不沾边了 还不如憨豆 还是最喜欢小时候看的布鲁斯南的邦德
我还是觉得《生死有时》的译名更贴题。
因为有告别的加持勉强三星，哪怕实际效果并那么悲壮，中间的古巴大战真不错，相信安娜·德·阿玛斯会成为比女主更惊艳的一员。007代表的是老式的特工电影，和《碟中谍》系列的发展还是有鲜明的对比的，也许跟不上潮流，但是邦德仍然有自己的坚持。不过我比较讨厌的是007这个故事明明可以去一点减法，仍是要搞到故弄玄虚最后也自讨无趣。《天幕杀机》很惊艳，不过一路都这么拍的话的确是有些乏味。(3/5)
也就只剩下系列打斗动作还行，整个剧情逻辑、反派人物动机都难以自圆其说
看完IMAX版《007：无暇赴死》了，真的是丹尼尔版詹姆斯.邦德最好的谢幕之作。IMAX胶片的质感与寂寞大神的配乐给观众带来了极致的视听效果，最后邦德的牺牲以及与斯旺医生之间的爱情配上碧梨演唱的主题曲真的特别好哭。
剧情都好迷啊，这简直就是英伦战狼，打不死的小强，虽然最后死了（但也是为了克雷格谢幕迭代新邦德，不然还能再战几部）
片头的冰霜天使好美 前半段ok anna出场好帅好美 后半段冗长无趣催人入眠 夕阳光线里 女主抱着女儿坐船离开的画面 美如圣母像 ben wishaw还是好可爱 喜欢他家的风格 结局我不敢相信..
确实上岛后剧情全面崩塌。（ps.对我老而言“007”的条件反射脸仍是皮尔斯·布鲁斯南，+丹尼尔·克雷格的老脸甚至让我一度误以为他是布鲁斯南的上一代…）
千言萬語一句話，什麽鬼？以及，這劇情不是007，這劇情是隔壁的mission impossible吧？再以及，所以007終於要變成黑人女性了麽~嘛，不管怎麽說，畢竟是丹尼爾叔最後一部，總是要看個紀念的~
总的来说还是很喜欢丹尼尔克雷格版邦德的，至少他让人觉得那些偶像剧般的深情台词从他口中说出来也不是那么不能接受。还好，我们还能在另一个系列里接着看到他(其实他可塑性挺强的，推荐观看Logan Lucky，他很出彩)。
btw M居然quoted Jack London, 英联邦老白男荣光永存草
如果不是知道这是这版的最后一部，这个结局其实都可以逆转。
3.5 Goodbye，Mr. Bond.
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