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".
逃狱，只不过是个由头，还是监狱中的恩怨。 前任狱长因为贪污被判入狱，而他为了逃狱下了一盘大旗，利用了自己的人脉，也利用了人性，差点逃狱成功。 最后还是被滚筒一行人所制止，逃狱失败。从此，逃狱兄弟画上了一个句号。逃狱是不可能的，更不可能逃狱成功。
当年的
除了科普下Aretha Franklin基本人生事迹并没太多价值。ZZ正确式的人物塑造和叙事，人物转变别扭刻意，就像是在打牌一样（女＞男，黑＞白之类的单纯参数比较），而不是真正用心在讲故事、构建戏剧冲突。少数几个白人角色反而还真实一点。
逃狱兄弟，够义气～
流水线上的作品，节奏挺快，应该省略了不少细节。
歌真好听 故事性还凑活吧 片名尊重貌似说那个年代白人对黑人的尊重 其实是说人得到的尊重是自己给的 无论在什么位置 不要忘了自己是谁 尊重也是相互的 家人才是最后留在你身边的
一年一部集，三年了，病毒也存在了三年。这集剧情仍然简单紧凑。偶像还是偶像，帅帅帅。黄德斌这次表现更出色，还有下药。嘿嘿。五颗星，期待续集！
两星+一星给一些别的意义。影片本身真是拍得一团乱，但是还是能理解到许多男人的莫名其妙……如果结束在respect那段可能节奏会更好，但这毕竟是传记片不是完全创作。结尾看到奥巴马有莫名的感动。一个时代过去了。
好失望，The First Lady of Soul 拍的有点平，只有歌好听。
人物塑造的不错，节奏不错，故事简单，适合下饭
肥花逆天的唱功弥补了演技的欠缺，成片质量可以算得上是传记片里的上乘。之前对AF的音乐略有涉猎，所以对片中出现的hits还算熟悉，因而也更能进一步了解这些音乐背后的故事，了解何谓灵魂乐。除创作历程之外还展现了她对黑人平权和社会慈善公益的贡献，愈加拜服于AF的伟大，respect！
流水线模板人物纪录片，看完并没有很清晰的富兰克林的画像出现在脑海里。
被音乐感动得不要不要的，剧情有些凌乱无重点
看了那么多的音乐人物传记，这部终于让音乐当了一回主角。看完电影的夜里，在找东野圭吾却翻到National Geographic，目录页里一眼就看见这电影的剧照，2021第4期112页有个专题Aretha’s Genius，刚要看就听见了贝斯弹的Amazing Grace，之前在电脑上找Victor Wooten写的《The Music Lesson》却翻到他的视频去了，当背景放着没有关，正巧播到2010年的一个演出，窗外花香随夜色浸进来，闭眼感受了一下，手上烫起的水泡依然隐隐作痛，并没有感觉到神恩降临。神啊，这点巧合还不够，让股票涨得厉害点吧，哈，渎神的势利眼就是我了
我想看刀疤的女朋友 还有张副狱长 太帅了 还有四兄弟
作为廖启智先生的遗作，只能说是中规中矩。电影的剧情，完全是靠一众老戏骨手撑起来，剧情可谓是毫无波澜。最后富家子的定罪，我看不出是法律的胜利，而是控辩双方权贵之间的互相斗法。说句诛心的话，假设死者富家女孩与被陷害的男生同样出于平民家庭，这种胜利或许更有戏剧性。而这部电影，无论是政治选举黑金，还是贫富差距的讨论，均没有深刻的展开，平庸的有点可惜，而且几场法庭戏也没有突出的闪光点，早一点在网上首播，也可以说是一个合理的选择。
普普通通……剧情很垮。女主一直都是尼基塔啊！(˶‾᷄ ⁻̫ ‾᷅˵)是美的
还有滚筒哥，哦不，谭耀文，已经太熟啦，无需赘言了～
Aretha Franklin 是无可替代灵骚歌后，天生就有一副给上帝亲吻过的歌喉。珍妮花演绎很卖力，但始终只是流于表面而已。歌曲都耳熟能详，作为一部传记电影，不过不失。
片中看到了兄弟情，仗义盟友。看完又去调了它的系列来看。
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