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".
歌舞片歌舞片，斯皮尔伯格这版如此突出场面调度的结果，就是歌舞意外成为一种附庸，由此也就削弱了电影最直接的情绪感染力，也拖垮了整体节奏，之前老版中合理的情节，也在这样的实景歌舞之下变得没那么合理了。不过总体来讲，斯皮尔伯格驾驭歌舞的能力还是比卡拉克斯强一点。
举手投足间，处处渗出舞蹈功力，跳起舞来更是熠熠闪光。
1星给演员歌舞，1星给调度，不能再多了，简直被脑残剧情拉低智商，真的这剧情改的不能忍啊！！！浪费了人生3h真是不值。
似曾相识的大起大落-10/10/21 at AMC Garden State Plaza 16
3-21、22 2月底就有片源了，竟然拖拖拉拉到现在才看完。经典故事加成出错的概率不大，这版钱多了，灯光画面舞蹈服饰都太精美好看了。还是掩不住悲剧的内核，在打架那里竟然暗自希望能改故事，但是如果改了其实后半部电影就完全不存在了，也失去了它该有的意义了。因为自己看着看着也意识到，后半段的悲剧才是让这个故事重新升华的地方，所有的恨和爱交织在那几个角色短暂的两天时间里。
斯皮尔伯格去拍迪士尼吧
吐槽后疫情时代劝退级电影时长的同时，还要替这版“新瓶装旧酒”尴尬——最后三十分钟简直煎熬，故事结束的点也是无比奇怪。要我说不如停在三十分钟前，或者继续把故事讲下去（两个半小时都熬过来了，我还会心疼再多那十几分钟？
由于原片和歌曲实在太经典，很长一段片长斗觉得就是对60年前的卡拉OK。而对那些没能流传的曲子也就没了记忆。看到后面，才觉得致敬和独创的比例挺合适。独创尤其体现在演员和语言上，终于接受外语的好莱坞，干脆把鲨鱼帮全用拉美演员，且连西语部分都不配字幕，显然从老家伙斯皮尔伯格做起，跟迂腐的过去决裂。但毕竟珠玉在前，歌舞部分尤其决斗戏，真没当年看到西区故事时的震撼了。
我看得好乐呵，已经多久没在电影里看到这么多真正的，激动人心的，想让人跟着跳起来的舞蹈了，上一次也许还是魔力麦克（误？ 其实好的东西也都是上一版好的东西。场面调度摄影更好了，但那是应该的，都隔了五十年了。很容易理解斯皮尔伯格为什么会想再拍一版，西区故事里这些种族移民警察帮派暴力问题完全没有过时，但没有新的表达再拍也意义不大，而且我依然对罗朱爱情主线没兴趣。但真的好喜欢那些转起来时候会开花的舞裙啊，还有依然辣飞我的哥嫂，jets群舞时候的肌肉线条，以及我一个奇怪的癖好：喜欢在舞台化的歌舞场景里具有现实合理性的道具灯光音效。镜头推进霓虹灯音效里会出现电流声，结婚誓词那里有透过彩窗的光是因为在修道院博物馆，消防楼梯下男主站在水塘里所以有身后有漂亮的反射灯光（虽然全纽约也找不到一个那么清澈的污水塘）
新瓶装旧酒，翻车翻大了。不明白这个陈旧故事怎么会一点改编的痕迹都没有，Tony Kushner你好歹是写出过“天使在美国”的大神啊！另外，阵容gay到我了...
如坐针毡，槽都懒得吐，好想知道影片结束的时候美国人到底在为了什么鼓掌。在电影院打开了四次豆瓣确认这导演是斯皮尔伯格
就算调度再牛逼，配角的歌舞再好听好看，复古服饰道复刻的再真实，也不能抵挡我对狗血剧情的唾弃以及对男女主表演水平的质疑。
这个故事我觉得已经不能叫“灵感源自《罗密欧与朱丽叶》了”，反正不喜欢一部片子，再好的优点也是缺点，本身有点缺点也就没什么了。
除不时闯入并撕裂剧情的歌舞部分外，所剩的一切都是如此冗长无趣。没看过原版，但这极有可能是最差的一部斯皮尔伯格。
25.12.2021 | @ Regal Majestic | 实力太硬了！太久没看Spielberg真是都忘了好的电影是这个样子的。我对于Ariana DeBose就是成长粉，真是越来越好了！Mike Faist这玩世不恭的颜给我往死里磕！
看在斯皮尔伯格的份上，多给一颗星吧。歌舞剧如果本身情节不够硬核，还是不要上大荧幕了，留在舞台更好。罗密欧与朱丽叶这对智障小青年已经让人头大，玛丽亚和托尼简直是智障plus。AND男主唱功演技和人品都太差劲了。
看这版西区故事前，我一直很担心，因为老版的剧情实在糟心，但斯皮尔伯格几乎化腐朽为神奇般地用镜头，调度与高质量的舞美碾压过平庸的剧情叙事，让歌舞成为本片真正的主角，而叙事逻辑反倒退居其次。
技术上十分完美，多元化上做得也无可指摘，就是剧本太弱了，男女主演的表演说实话功力不够。歌曲都很难听。
六十年代的回潮，相比原版，舞台置景感大大减弱，无比精美的服化道。改编剧情使得更像部合理的电影而非舞台剧，起码第一二幕是这样。卡明斯基的摄影仍旧很赞，光影的运用，复古的打光。电影的几处华彩:体育馆的Mambo，街头的拉丁热舞，码头的夺枪，盐场的对决。完全能感受到舞蹈的美感以及与音乐的融合度，是一种享受。最好看的居然是第二幕，由四组人两首歌的引吭到对决再到意外的结束。而后就到了儿戏一样的第三幕，仿佛苦情琼瑶剧一样的结尾，让人在电影院坐立难安……
完全浪费时间，看过那么多歌舞片，这是第一个毫无美感的～曾经才华横溢的老斯，近些年真是越来越平庸
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