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".
意料之外的有趣，光这个题材就值三星，小贱贱发挥平稳，疫情期间难得的大制作
雷诺兹本人是保证了电影的娱乐性了，笑点不断，朱迪科默表现也亮眼，但受限于成本也达不到《头号玩家》的那种特效完成度，这个设定如果让演反派的那位导也许会更好，不过结尾加的那段爱情戏还是挺意外的，以及那一连串电影彩蛋。（6.5/10）
看完心情舒畅啊，好久没有看一个开开心心快快乐乐的电影了！
觉醒的AI，存档再来的西部世界。即便算不上多新鲜的创意，电影也拍得非常流畅。然而，对于所表现和歌颂的游戏NPC，电影再努力，也只是游戏的向下兼容成品，如同没能面世的“自由世界2”。
你以为他们在乎的是你这个普通人有没有存在感，是不是被现实生活困住，或者有没有真爱。不，那只是推销给你的手段，他们真正care的是如何推广AI，控枪， free life over free country。
大杂烩一般的娱乐片，完成度还是非常高的，完全无尿点
头号玩家+楚门的世界
出乎意料的好看😄太喜欢这种AI觉醒的设定了，配上游戏的背景太有趣了！啾迪太帅了！！！
为什么我的友邻都给这片打了五星，你们是收钱了吗？可恶
我真的很担心男女主在路中间接吻会被车撞飞！
虽然剧情老套，拼凑，思考的点也很多电影中出现，但是让人大脑不停烧，这种电影每次都能成功
也就是王者峽谷里的超級兵和野怪、龍突然不肯給大家打了。
當他們進入了新世界「自由之城」時，黑人小哥問 Guy「沒有銀行我們可以做什麼？」Guy 說「做一切你想做的」同樣是解開槍帶，槍落地，但此時就完全是另一種意味和象徵了。
动作戏亮眼（片尾大只佬那部分除外），几处慢镜头恰当华丽，女主的角色装扮非常游戏且好看，振金盾牌和光剑的登场让我这个美队粉星战粉一本满足。
基本上核心没有创造，全是借鉴：从《模拟人生》到《侠盗猎车手》和《黑道圣徒》，从《土拨鼠之日》到《楚门的世界》再到《西部世界》……而且情节的连缀显得太过于轻飘跳跃，如果能把普通生活和NPC的相似之处、感情中的虚拟和真实这些地方深入一些会更有意思。
我们每个人都不是世界的主角，但此时此刻我们可以成为自己生活的主角。因为认真爱过所以真正活过，爱是心中永恒的能量，爱正是这个世界生命生机勃勃的意义。当盖无限的程序被绽放般地开发出来，那种斑斓，真美。
可能对“游戏感”的期待太高了，看到这个浓度的呈现实在是失望的不太想说话。除了怼墙跑、隔空跳、以及不小心卡BUG几个玩家能心领神会的小点，其他地方真的太不游戏了……漫威和星战已经算流行文化了，所以除了洛克人稍纵即逝的梗可太不能满足期待了。不是说不能煽情不能讲道理，但是换皮嘛，也挖得深一点才让人觉得有意思啊。
所有的浪漫氛围都被“情书”给毁了，积攒的饱满情绪都在那一瞬间针扎一样泄气了。free guy根本就不是truman的故事，是falseman的故事，甚至这都不是他的故事。
这是个爱情片吧。这么多年在你身边陪着你帮助你不离不弃的人，你一直以为我们只是朋友，终于成了恋人。喜欢这个结局，happy ending。视效是极好的，破碎火焰合成等都很真实。这种开放性游戏我挺喜欢的，工作太忙了，现在没时间玩了。
但与同类型电影《头号玩家》相比，无论是在视效还是故事上都略显不足，更像是《头号玩家》与《楚门的时界》的仿照结合体。但放在目前全球电影市场来说已经很不错，值得一看！
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