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".
我最不满意的是结尾，四个人，分别在两个地方横穿马路，我心想怎么不来一辆大卡车撞他们一下呢？哪怕虚晃一下也行啊。
《失控玩家》的海外同期表现相对出色，除了影院独享的先天优势，其质量也是很有说服力的。角色之间的情感处理，也挺值得仔细琢磨。
五星有私心，真的好喜欢。二十一世纪电子彩蛋情书，岩井俊二快来学学！！
作为玩家&观众，我都很失望。
里面很多成龙的，东方武侠的动作元素。还有妇联的梗。有元宇宙的感觉。最后游戏公司老板没有必要拿斧头去毁服务器吧？断电，或者之前的重启都可以啊。都砍坏了，就留着最后那个服务器让女主和AI来操作？也是一个浪漫的设定，工具人的底层是AI.看着这些工具人每天干着重复的事情，被人重复杀掉，也很像《西部世界》里的机器人。
不乏动人之处，关于侯麦、里维特、帕斯卡尔和杜拉斯等等的迷影插曲让人会心一笑，但与旧影像结合的复古回响倒不那么有效，整体设计上依旧呈现着剧本电影的无力感，来自角色写作内部的累赘阻止了真正的观看发生。
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。
轻松愉快的爆米花电影，可惜疫情防控不能吃爆米花
taika watiti is the biggest surprise
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
完成度很高，游戏式画面还算蛮有趣，从现实中的爱到游戏里的爱让开始npc的觉醒不显得突兀，也有了更多感动，各种彩蛋应接不暇，电影到游戏，兴奋之余也有很多教育意义，不足大多都是突然的说教和略微平淡的剧情，但看这种电影只要找到一个喜欢的地方就已经满足了。死侍演这种角色真的是发挥出了最好个性特色，十分舒服的观感
《楚门的世界》之 NPC 觉醒，经典的“你的独立人格到底是你的独立人格还是被赋予的独立人格”之绕不去的哲学难题。旁人直道程序员好浪漫，程序员却道电影 bug 太多。
1.玩梗玩的还不错，世界观设定是披着GTA外皮的堡垒之夜（自由城啊），NPC觉醒这个设定蛮有意思的，加上和外部世界的共鸣，形成了类似《楚门的世界》的体验。
最近醉心于打真人rpg游戏 我是来学习玩法的
男女主最后在一起了
一部披着华丽外衣的俗套故事，但是依然看得好爽啊！NPC们其实就是一个个楚门，每天说着一样的口头禅，重复着一样的生活，但不同的是他们得靠自己成为自己的主角！
头号玩家同类型作品，虚拟人物拯救虚拟世界，BUG有点多，女主颜值不错。
好看的爆米花电影！（看完电影坐地铁回去的路上突然觉得自己的生活也和npc差不多）
电影内核不必有多么的深邃，毕竟我现在要的就是简单的快乐，瑞安·雷诺兹，真的 无愧”小贱贱“的外号 沙雕的那么自然
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。
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