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".
有的时候看电影的外在情况真的很能影响观影感受，你让我快乐了，我愿意奉上五星好评。
认真打游戏的人或多或少都会真心喜欢上几个NPC吧。
一个半小时正好，后面的剧情很多余，反面人物也没有塑造好，也不够丰满。我只能脑补成他是腾讯，才勉强合理一些。
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）
不错不错，适合放松观看。肖恩导演和瑞安合作的电影还蛮合我的胃口。3D画面很赞。
有头号玩家，楚门的世界，无敌破坏王，心灵奇旅的影子
之前看stranger things还一直摇摆于joe这个演员到底是可爱还是尴尬这部直接把我摆到了可爱的这边。我也对comer的有点喜欢变成了感觉她真的还蛮可爱。虽然X非要拿这个和ready player one做比较，但个人认为除了游戏元素和都是爆米花片的功能性定位以外其实两者没啥关系。这部的视野很小，属于很有b数但把自己分内事做的很精细的小妞电影。虽然标签现在都是什么动作冒险搞笑，但这其实就是一部主人公是男的的chick flick。而且是一部还挺好看的chick flick。看完感觉做这种能让人开心的电影其实也挺难的。流水线作品做的好的时候，还是一件挺赏心悦目的工艺品的。
真人线上版GTA，概念挺好的，应该是大部分游戏迷们预期中的电影形态，但看久了肯定觉得无聊，因此主创也想到了后半段赶紧加入一个核心冲突，虽然所有动作戏都是在游戏里完成少了很多刺激感（即使关掉复活功能），但整体趣味性没太大损失，并且由于瑞安雷诺兹对NPC的精彩演绎以及钱老板和美队的惊喜客串使得观影感受完全不俗。Guy打Dude，哈哈哈。
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”。
所有现实层面的东西都不经推敲，游戏里边的变化更让人感动。但是如果把更多的视点聚焦到guy身上，哪怕不谈论本体性，不谈论存在主义，不谈论身体，不谈论意识，是不是也会有点跳舞的《天启之门》那味儿了？现在的整个现实部分的文本，文戏都太悬浮了，还是延续从七八十年代一直来的好莱坞爆米花片传统套路。
娱乐性不错，但这个题材稍微打磨下，其实完全可以处理得更加有深度的。如今这样就只是蜻蜓点水般地一掠而过，多少有点可惜了。
7.8分才这个水平也是没想到，不及2018年国产真人游戏题材大片《动物世界》的十分之一。明年希望能看到动物世界2。
NPC人性化的设定，对游戏玩家来说不仅电影变好看了，而且感动。
就像一碗洒满小甜品的冰激凌，齁甜，但舔的时候非常满足。好莱坞现在快要失去一本正经且专业地娱乐你的创作态度了，所以看的时候反而异常感动。这类电影有一个考察指标：随着故事的进行，是不是一直能在想象力上扔出一些大大小小的东西来给你新的刺激，《失控玩家》还是做到了。同类主题上，这片比《头号玩家》少了说教味，但在动作上保守了。最后的最后，我不会忘记，这类电影的鼻祖，是州长的《幻影英雄》。
Guy让我想起《银翼杀手2049》中的K。他们作为工具、手段被创造，又都经历了幻灭进而试图在荒谬、虚假的世界中寻求自由与意义，最终摆脱工具性，实现了存在的目的性，他们都是“more human than humans”的角色。
好久没有在电影院看那么让人开心的电影了啊啊啊啊啊～～结尾和红辣椒交相呼应，在一堆套路后还能看到这种结尾真的很感动T T黑人死前说：我的命matters！感觉游戏好好玩，回家后男友兴奋地讲了两小时GTA…
总算不再废话连篇，开始老老实实的爆梗。虽说依然没营养，但也是色香味俱全的爆米花。逆袭的NPC，没啥大不了的事是一个吻解决不了的。齐心协力毁灭大魔王，完美到每个人都无遗憾。至于NPC怎么觉醒的无从知晓，符合输出价值观一切皆OK。6.4
疫情后的好莱坞电影在制作成本和创意程度上都有所打折，这部暑期爆米花影片就是一个好例子。原始创意来自20多年前的《楚门的世界》，将原本的真人男主角换成了这部的NPC。这种改动更符合当下网络时代年轻观众的口味，不过编剧显然没在这个角色上深挖下去，具有自我意识的人工智能大有文章可做，可惜最后还是回归好莱坞的爱情套路里。相比前半段对虚拟游戏世界的精彩刻画，后半段则是各种俗套情节的大集合，不惜出动到各种经典漫改人物和道具，一锅乱炖的处理让人越看越无趣。最后的反转也没悬念可言，愈发保守的倾向已成为了好莱坞近年来的软肋。宁可浪费一个绝好的创意，也不放过任何一部有潜质开拍续集的作品，这说的就是影片里游戏公司的反派老板，实在太过讽刺了……
一个半小时正好，后面的剧情很多余，反面人物也没有塑造好，也不够丰满。我只能脑补成他是腾讯，才勉强合理一些。
槽点当然还挺多，不一一列举了
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