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".
我再也不说咱们手撕鬼子那样神剧了比起这部片长三小时的宝莱坞巨制史诗电影来说那都浮云。宝莱坞歌舞为我们抒写了可歌可泣的抗英大戏就如《赛德克·巴莱》剧情加歌舞和夸张武打效果真阿三脑洞也领我佩服，升格实在太多了！
原著作者和导演想表达的是：张伯伦基于正确的理由做了错误的决定。绥靖政策在当时的欧洲基本是民心所向，一战的阴影和影响让老百姓普遍反战，十月革命使西方世界把苏俄红色势力当作更重要的敌人，最重要的是没人能预料到希特勒会那么疯狂。所以就连丘吉尔也评价张伯伦是“为和平而斗争，甚至不顾巨大的危险，至于个人的荣辱则肯定也完全置之度外。”
虽然扯但是好好看！为了我的查兰和Edward无脑五星❤️
就上半部还在究着心弦想着两个人什么时候撕的，下半场就一起抗敌了，当然啊，没有一起怎么能取得胜利，印度悬浮high片的典型之作，狗血至极，但就还行吧。
7.5，希特勒选的演员不像，墨索里尼不知道是哪位长了张毛子脸……结尾文字为啥偏要美化一下张伯伦呢[叹气]
怪有基情的 手撕鬼子一个打一百个要看就看印度出品
对印度电影(尤其是南印度电影)来说算不上脑洞大开，就是他们一惯的对体能的超级想象，打破各种不可能。实际上，它的剧情编排非常严谨，每一个重要的情节点以及镜头表现的张力都设计得很好，很有革命现实主义文艺的煽动性，只是当它和极度夸张化的英雄形象结合后，就变得很不现实了。本片导演之前的作品，中国观众很熟悉，有[巴霍巴利王]系列和[功夫小蝇]，前者的“英雄”跟本片一样，都近乎被神化，一方面让观众爽到极点，另一方面紧扣历史和民族主题。
二、慕尼黑协定是西方民主国家向纳粹武力威胁的‘彻底投降’”、“是英国未经战争而遭到的一次可耻的失败”。
当看到身残志坚饥困交加的逼王在监狱里做引体向上的时候，我大受震撼并质问自己，还有什么理由不锻炼！？
故事有点不可信啊，安保这么差的吗？德国外交官随随便便就可以见英国首相？外交官去见希特勒可以带枪不用搜身？我书读得少也不能这么骗我吧……
英伦男主很帅，角色跟他没有一点点的貌合神离。但不得不说，希特勒的角色没选好，当时的希特勒怎么就是个老头子啦？！！
总的来说印度狼着实超越国狼。狼们嘴上说着自己最强但说电影里每每都是蝈搞白女，这怎么自信起来哦？印度版本讲殖民在格局上输给了虽远必诛的国狼，但是作为世界的一部分他们讲甘地讲火和水和自然，不过讲真，说中国导演会琢磨出片名的实在是得看看这三个r是怎么出来的，印度版本的自信就是这么随意，只要单词里有r就算是r了，不讲究什么劳什子头压尾压什么的，印度人会跳舞会不会就像中国人会功夫？充满了抖音追求的子弹时间云云，情感戏拉满，意淫真有趣，他山之石可以攻玉，想看看印度的老法师电影了。
富有想象力的动作场面，不死的印度个人英雄主义，水火的意象表达还是不错的。但很多剧情可能就是为了爽吧，算是一个抗英神剧了。
燃啊，印度人真的是掏空心思和想象力，还有真金白银来取悦观众。我是被这种目空一切只为酷炫的态度给吸引住了，完完全全看进去了。嫌3个小时太短，麻烦再长一点，让苦闷的生活远离我。
印度超英，抗英神片。印度影史制作成本第二高的电影（7200万美元），印度影史预售票房纪录、首映票房纪录，海外上映首周击败《新蝙蝠侠》《迷失之城》拿下全球票房冠军，历史级别的宏伟史诗巨作。有“猴神大叔”普拉萨德这么好的剧本，加上“国宝级别”的拉贾穆里导演。集结小老虎+拉姆查兰特哈+德乌干三大影帝同场飙戏，《甘古拜》《误杀瞒天记》全套主演班底，稳坐印度影史历史前三毫无悬念了。开场即高能，拉朱那一段「不可能完成的任务」看得我「目瞪口呆」。转场及后期延伸非常巧妙，叙事流畅、脉络清晰、特效逼真、反转合理。民族大义与亲情、友情贯穿始终，搭配印度固有的轻快歌舞，一气呵成，相当精彩。虽有些桥段过于「神剧化」（最后巴霍巴利王登场真的是认真的吗？），但放在大制作的商业电影中却甚是精妙。瑕不掩瑜，我愿意给四颗星。
学生时代关于张伯伦的对应词就是绥靖，后来看丘吉尔自传，张伯伦并不是一无是处。这部片子从另一个角度展现了那段历史和相关当事人，蛮有意思…
影片以出色的视觉特效、爽爆的动作格斗以及曲折的情节设置，实现了印度电影的又一突破。可以说，这是一部集“爽”、兄弟情与民族情绪于一身的影片。
“Hoping is waiting for someone else to do it. We’d be much better off without it.”真的能说绥靖是争取了时间吗？（演员真好）
不管真实与否，能带着我们多角度看问题和思考问题，就是有益的。
However, this is where we are now
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