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".
熟悉的是枝裕和风格，运镜、色彩、音乐和克制的氛围——虽然故事换了个发生地点，但也算南韩演技派顶配阵容了，因此电影在气质上也尽可能少了些违和感——其实按照这个剧本，年纪再往前10年的阿部宽，宫崎葵，安藤樱，福山雅治来围炉夜话，估计就对味了；// 这种小小的无伤大雅的违和感该怎么形容呢：日影的文艺感是温和深邃有时光来托重的——它可以下沉的相当彻底；而韩影的文艺感失去了些因文化积淀而产生的必然性——富五代和富二代的区别。
中年危机的凯奇大叔和他的戏精粉丝，自己扮演自己，自己吐槽自己，还挺有意思的。
我爱的凯奇总算演了部好口碑的电影啦，之前虽然都是还债片，但演的也都不差啊。这一部影片算是讨巧的，和他本人超级契合。也只有他可以在银幕前把自己演的那么颓废。
哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈 四星好看啊，分太低了拉一拉呀～前半段去掉家庭戏可以说是有神作倾向，后面就又开始淘气了哈哈哈哈哈疫情以来很久没看到这种舒适的电影了（当然可能因为我曾是nick的大粉丝
凯奇吃老本还债片之集大成者，居然还不难看。他扮演的自己还是个有着电影梦想并且深爱着家庭的人，希望他还完债务之后再接片可以稍微有点选择，重新找回事业第二春吧。
是枝裕和的作品无论是什么语言在表达，内里永远是不变的，特别是那种缓缓流淌的温暖；只不过这次的“小偷家族”的确是有点复制自己，不同的可能就是以公路片的形式呈现。行走在半空的摩天轮、熄灯后的酒店深夜、还有退潮后的海滩...这些极易刺激人情感共鸣的场景，都深深的刻满了是枝裕和的影子，虽然似曾相识，但多少还是会让人感动。
就凯奇这些年选片的眼光品位而言，这部刻意讽刺的讽刺喜剧反而显得有些神滞于形落了下品。
希望这部电影能助凯奇，拍一下投资大的电影，至少别浪费演技。
和之前的烂片比，是强了好多，不过也就是有点意思罢了。帕丁顿熊2我感觉比第一部差多了。还有电影最后又上演了，对方还没追上来，但非要以赢得时间为由，留下送人头地戏码。
一时之间不知道该为这个幻梦般的温情乌托邦感动还是质疑，是枝裕和把东京教父带到了韩国，把圣诞节雪夜置换成了大海和旅行，但宋康昊那种圣母的关怀却没让我干涩的眼珠子掉下一滴眼泪。
感觉是枝裕和以前蛮针砭时弊的，到韩国怎么就温情了起来。
最后30min内只有摩天轮和宾馆内熄灯两场戏3.5星。除了裴斗娜，其他人的演出看起来都像周五下午五点四十五分看似认真工作实际上只是在脑内放空等着打卡下班的社畜。以《奇迹笨小孩》为例，模式化的剧作本身并不会是问题所在，但如此模式的电影十分依仗观众的共情，如果牵引不出情绪，基本上意味着失语。同样的母题下与《晨曦将至》相比，是枝裕和被河濑直美爆杀。
自我调侃的尼古拉斯.凯奇有一种别样的魅力，搞笑的地方常常从现实跳进影片里，来回切换更加有趣。其实后半段就觉得这应该是戏中戏，不然中间那些无厘头简直离谱，不过总体来说，终于从低潮走出来的凯奇，值得掌声。
我觉得，«掮客»的意义，其实不在于阵容如何，导演如何，演员如何，题材如何，而是它提供了一个新的角度去审视生命。新生的生命、死亡的生命、被抛弃的生命、被守护的生命、不被理解的生命、得到谅解的生命……为什么人们总是会对孩子说：谢谢你来到这个世界，而从来不对一个成年人说，谢谢你来到这个世界呢？每一个大人都是曾经的孩子啊。从这一点上，整部电影对于生命的讨论已经不仅仅只是被遗弃的孩子上，而是普及到了每一个人身上。
太——日了，韩国演员和日本电影真的不太兼容，也就裴斗娜这种有“去国别感”的演员才能两头适应了
Mega. “可惜”都不至于的地步，就是失望。洗车场这种俗气煽情的桥段，和是枝裕和之前作品中细腻的感动相比，一个天上一个地下。丽姐是转型比较成功的吧，但是不懂怎么就能算“影后人选”了，还是在“认真演戏”的感觉，戏份最重最鲜明超过宋康昊，但是换个人来演也不会更好我觉得，剧作上没有更多发挥空间了，不值得。
抛开《小偷家族》的框架，没太多是枝裕和的影子。回头想想让冯小刚来拍也不错，葛优演大叔，舒淇演女主，任素汐演女警察....
过期演员尼古拉斯凯奇变身CIA特工。前面半小时很无聊差点就放弃了，后面凯奇被招募协助CIA破案才稍微好看点，总体就一般般。
剧本和表演都没问题，不自然的地方是看的过程中一直觉得这应该是发生在日本的故事，镜头语言还是太是枝太日式了，虽然是东亚近邻，总觉得韩国人面对这种事不会处理得像日本人那样温和😢IU在我认知里一直是个很美丽的偶像歌手，没想到演技意外的踏实。裴女士老刑警了，余裕十足，不如干脆搞个跟李珠英的双女主探案剧，剧本让《秘密森林》的李秀妍来写就好～
剧情漏洞百出，充满笑话，怎么会这么轻浮？其实这故事根本撑不了两个小时，你就看他搁那儿编，难道小偷家族一部片子把是枝裕和榨干了？而且你妈宋康昊连釜山话都不讲你凭什么拿影帝？除了其中的几场戏他应该都不用动脑就能演。我可没把是枝裕和当成煽情导演看过，这干什么呢？图什么呢？没得拍不如不拍。
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