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".
6分，但是华金的台词加上黑白滤镜直接把质感拉升
当然这部影片也是没有逃脱黑人的政治色彩，时不时要提几句毫无关联性的迫害小段子……突兀而不伦不类……
模板传记片没什么新鲜劲，而且我更多看到的是理查德的独断自负，诚然培养了两个天才，但无法忽略的是大小威本身的天赋。史皇的表演拿影帝真不太够啊，对于他自己来说根本没有突破，今年实在是暗淡无光的一个超小年。
PFF#….5? Potentially my fav one
这个父亲不是一个好父亲，强硬性地把自己的价值观及未来套在女儿头上，只能说他应该很庆幸女儿们都是听话的，不然的话一般人早就离家出走变坏了，正所谓物极必反
“但这是维纳自己的生活，你得让她自己做决定。因为如果你不相信她的选择，她会是那个离开你的人。”
我以为更多重心会放在一开始不被看好的妹妹身上，中规中矩吧，但并不是威尔史密斯最好的表演。
极致生活化的演绎
这样的体育片岂止是不如陈可辛，甚至在态度和反思上也不及最近的我心飞扬。
搞不懂亦碰不得，代际关系欠沟通。
很精彩，看完捋出一丝遗憾。前面表达的是阶层跨越，最后在理查德向女儿道出自己的童年创伤所表达的是种族歧视。想说理查德的教育方式好还是不好呢？理查德转变太快了，紧接着跟后面女儿的比赛也没有形成很好的呼应和互动。很泄气。这是关于父亲的传记，不是两女儿的传记，最后的比赛的视角怎么就完全给了女儿？ 传记电影不好写，据说剧本阶段就被外在因素干预太多，以至于不得不成了现在这个样子。3星+1星，多的1星给国王为维护妻子扇出的一耳光。 7.4/1.76万 短评6587条 %53/38/9。【7.5/8.1万 预算5000万美元，北美票房1512.92万美元，全球票房3842.92万美元】
华金像只毛绒绒的大熊，挺舒服的。虽然不有趣。到结尾告别时感到忧伤，记忆是不公平的，也许Johnny会记得，但9岁的孩子会长大到不再在乎有人曾是best friend。或者说长大到这种柔软亲密显得尴尬，只好当作遗忘。
这样的故事&人物当然要多讲 拆分了仔细讲 不过选择视角上 也许这次太爹了 虽然在开头和中后段点缀了两笔关于黑人内部 关于婚姻家庭里面的这个“King”是多么虚弱 但也都是台词口号似的 所以只好更期待以后的叙述 无论是 Serena 甚至她们的母亲 Oracene Price p.s. Elswit 的摄影没有很明确的特质显露 但是完成度和功能上很棒 比赛的节奏展示选择 戏剧的峰谷安排 Venus 的几次成长过渡都太中规中矩了
哭着干完这碗鸡汤😂从黑帮贫民窟一路闯出来太艰难了……Will Smith演得不错，让人既叹服又咬牙，好在最后学会了让步与倾听。跟妻子吵架这段台词很到位，反映了太多男人的缺点。
并非体育传记片，在其中你看不到对网球的热爱与梦想，只能看到一个有着极端控制欲的父亲是如何教育出优秀、自信的女儿们的。威尔史密斯精准的表达是绝对加分项，不那么过头也不那么惹人讨厌，那是威廉姆斯姐妹眼中的父亲。
a good movie, but in someway, it's boring af
而无论是从妈妈还是大小威的角度来讲故事，都能讲出不同的但同样精彩的故事，哪怕从其他三姐妹的角度来拍，这个故事依然精彩。
节奏控制不错，剧本同样扎实，放十年前属于典型的冲奥片。要的是一点尊重，以及出人头地。★★★☆/7.2
从父亲深谋远虑的角度讲述大小威的故事，这个传记片走的路子很不寻常，非裔姐妹在网坛写下的浑厚一笔为她们的成长经历赋予了强烈的励志，她们的成功与父亲对于计划的固执密不可分，这位父亲真正伟大之处，在于选了网球并坚持这一选择。
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