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".
东木老爷就保持这个节奏！拍到一百多岁我就随时保持跟进！
故事不算完全收住，相比骡子和理查德朱维尔而言衰老似乎显而易见，自我解构与解剖也像是借坡下驴。只是老头魅力仍在，哪怕剩下的几乎是纯粹的老。Until we find each other again，真是最迷人的commitment
我在梦中曾身处一个沙漠酒吧，现在我竟真的在。但没想到的是，这个荒凉的沙漠小镇，让人重回旧时的牛仔时光，驯马，烹饪，帮村民治疗他们的小动物，和可爱的小女孩开心的比划手语，看着拉菲尔情窦初开，和相互喜欢的人共舞一曲。当那首Sabor a Mi想起的时候，我真的和那孩子想的一样，留在这个小镇，永远不要离开。
老牛仔的告别诗
前两天我看了一条关于国产电影的评论。意思差不多是喜剧恐怖片另外特别说了国产片都要低人一等。正好我昨天看了《扬名立万》和《误杀1》。两部都是国产片，有一部是翻拍。两部都7分以上（20222.2.8豆瓣评分），而《哭泣的男人》6分（时间同上）。咱们不要拘泥于小数点后。我真心请问，国产片在演技，设计，剧本，运镜，对白，连贯性，观赏性甚至调色真的低人一等吗？我觉得没错，国产电影就是低人一等，凭什么上述两部电影7分，《哭泣的男人》6分？而我因为豆瓣5星规则我打4星，平均下来我打8分。认识到差距才能进步，我不知道国产电影有多用力，也不知道好莱坞电影多不用力。事实是：国产电影确实低人一等。求骂求草，不要吝你卑鄙的语言，来吧。
我日啊……..这片子到底存在的意义是啥，东木老爷爷你是想要电影里来段夕阳红？？？？
东木老爷子在里面也算是对自己的人生感悟，这个年纪能拍出来这样的电影🎬已经很棒了。有时候自己晕头樟脑不想学习的时候，就想想东木这把年纪了可还能如此高产，就会重新振作起来。
片名应该是猛男落泪？一生牛仔。还是比不了以前的老爷车和完美的世界啊。
老牛仔最后的余热，一段忘年交之旅。老爷子有点拍不动了，平淡，柔软，温情。且看且珍惜吧。★★★☆
电影本身很淡很简单。能够看到老爷子还在拍电影就好温暖，
老爷子演技不错 剧情节奏太拖沓了 不如预期的好看
Chicken is macho(strong)
真的老了，但还是荒野篝火、帽檐下的深邃，这些元素没有变。前边的剧情拖沓又出戏，中后期拽回来一点，但止不住颓势。
电影本身很淡很简单。能够看到老爷子还在拍电影就好温暖，
克里特伊斯特伍德确实是我爱戴的电影工作者，他出演的西部片，我几乎全部看过，且《不可饶恕》这样的不止一遍。而老头子又超级喜欢拍片，那种功力和视野绝对是天生我材，用的当当响。目前老头年逾九旬，多数同龄人早就化为灰烬躺在盒子里，而他居然每年一部电影，拍得带劲，冲这副精气神，对他的景仰已无法以滔滔不绝来表述，简直就是五体投地老天荒。唉，岁月不饶人哪，再强的种马也有精尽之时，试图和盛年一样揭竿而起怎么可能呢？看完《哭泣的男人》，我的悲怆袭上心头，伊斯特伍德确实老的不成名堂了，呜乎！
相比克林特·伊斯特伍德十几年前的同款类型《老爷车》，似乎随着年纪的增大而流失了一股戾气……
我不知道如何治愈“老去”,我所做的，不过是生命中的另一个选择。
四平八稳的半公路电影，老爷子伊斯特伍德在91岁高龄的情况下依然可以做到自导自演一部电影已经是非常难得了，因此即使影片内容略显平庸，也值得一个及格以上的分数，当年意气风发的美国牛仔变成孤独老牛仔，影片既是老爷子致敬曾经饰演的角色，也在致敬自己的一生
真的要是别的导演拍的，能有三星，但是东木啊，可能是真的老了。
30年生人，今年已经92岁的伊斯特伍德，竟然还能拍电影，这是多么不可思议啊！
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