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".
让我在两星和三星间纠结就足够说明问题了，哥嫂cp值得所有的赞美，2021年真的不要再拍罗密欧朱丽叶了，男主杀了女主哥哥然后的床戏让我想冲出电影院
剧本的基本结构没动，只是增加了一点文戏，丰富了人物背景，为了适应电影，老版更舞台风，虽然时长没变，但新版感觉更紧凑，叙事节奏更好。故事还是那个罗密欧与朱丽叶的故事，完全看不懂的爱情和莫名其妙死掉的人，这一点不管哪版都一样的蠢。歌曲顺序恢复到基本和音乐剧里相同，感觉更加合理顺畅，老版里改掉的歌词都还原了，这么多年依然好听。新版我最爱的就是歌舞部分，America本来就是我最喜欢的一首歌，这次的编舞更是观赏度爆表，几场大型歌舞戏都是大师级的场面调度，剪辑也好，最后出来的效果就非常有感染力。最爱的三个演员，Mike Faist，Ariana DeBose和David Alvarez都演技歌舞俱佳，Rachel Zegler胜在歌唱得好，Ansel Elgort就是演技歌舞稀烂到全方位被所有人吊打。
可以算是斯皮尔伯格导演的失手之作了吧，这个剧情跟闹着玩一样，音乐剧改编成电影，剧情还如此狗血又夸张，特别是最后的部分，狗血剧情一波接一波，结局也是非常令人无语，男主死后被抬走就立马收尾，就这！？什么鬼。男女主的演技也是很捉急，肢体不协调的尬舞真的是没眼看。总体来说，又臭又长，尴尬至极的歌舞片。
让我在两星和三星间纠结就足够说明问题了，哥嫂cp值得所有的赞美，2021年真的不要再拍罗密欧朱丽叶了，男主杀了女主哥哥然后的床戏让我想冲出电影院
又一部IMDb评分高于豆瓣评分的电影，而个人观感介于二者之间。—— 看过获得十项奥斯卡奖的1961年电影版（个人并没有很喜欢，当初知道史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格导演要翻拍有些意外，但还是因此有点期待），因而对其故事和歌舞大致有所了解，2021年版算是不功不过符合我的预期，倒是艺术指导（尤其是还原20世纪50年代纽约街头的布景）、服化道、灯光摄影等技术方面的出色让我比较惊喜。★★★☆
再也不相信豆瓣评分了，真的很好看啊！！！
这个故事我觉得已经不能叫“灵感源自《罗密欧与朱丽叶》了”，反正不喜欢一部片子，再好的优点也是缺点，本身有点缺点也就没什么了。
预告就能看出缺失男主角cut部分的端倪 安塞尔的表演和肢体可能对于这个电影是有着灾难性的意义 我以为这还没完 最后半小时却亲自毁在了导演自己手上
what the fuck is this
让我在两星和三星间纠结就足够说明问题了，哥嫂cp值得所有的赞美，2021年真的不要再拍罗密欧朱丽叶了，男主杀了女主哥哥然后的床戏让我想冲出电影院
没想到在短时间内看到了一部比House of Gucci还要尬，还要难看的电影，到结束我也没能理解这个烂俗故事被翻拍的意义。确实从这个新版里，可以感知到斯皮尔伯格对歌舞片的一些想法，也尝试让影像在叙事上高于歌舞，但本身（也许是我自己的偏见），在我们现代的视觉里，这些歌舞还是割裂在情感之外，被鲜艳的色调冲刷，让表演在形式里失去意义，主角二人只好在片尾通过台词吼出自己的情感然后再被“原作”拆散。
歌舞片的度不好把握，假定性低于舞台剧，不能照搬音乐剧表达；又在阿斯泰尔到吉恩凯利转向后能实现“随时在街上唱跳”，太写实非让每次唱歌都要意识到我要唱而不是说就太死板。我思来想去觉得成功密码是演员的银幕人格和编舞精彩程度。老版太照搬舞台调度，靠编舞挽回不少，新版努力兼顾但有些地方又太实了，不过斯老尽力了！歌曲改得都很好，something‘s coming格局抬高了，cool挪得很好还送了一段编舞，Gee, Officer Krupke增加了讽刺力度，somewhere让老版Anita来唱真神啊，应该就是桑爷爷点赞的那首改动～技术好，但表演……Anita一向最出彩这次也扛得住期待（America永远令人落泪），Maria有点失望，Riff我特别不喜，Tony十分油腻，Bernardo则呆滞……
上一次让我觉得删掉男主一切完美的作品还是小滑冰，只能说老版的精彩程度斯皮尔伯格的牛逼程度和男主的拉垮程度成正比。男主一脸青春期还没结束的表情还有大白嗓和60年代毫无关系，只能说前有埃德加赖特后有斯皮尔伯格，二代爹妈会铺路。
难以想象这是斯皮尔伯格的作品，为什么要翻拍百老汇知名音乐剧？无论摄影舞美服装舞蹈灯光音乐都无可挑剔，但这剧本真是要杀人啊，太拧巴，都过去六十年了，为什么不能大刀阔斧改下呢？现在还用这种结局意义大吗？市场会认可吗？
太难看了，除了服装之外一无是处啊。故事本身已经看烦了，还找这么难看演技差没有存在感的男主来演。中间哥嫂那段街头热舞之后立刻接上男主那张脸，视觉对比太强烈了，到了难以忍受的程度。没能看完。而且我也不太明白，我不是不能看歌舞片的人，反而很爱看歌舞片，为什么唯独这一部给我这么强的违和感，通篇感觉不是实景拍摄像是在舞台上表演。这是故意的吗？但效果并不好啊。
我会说舞蹈含量严重不足
所以你看，也不能太过指责现在的年轻一代不看电影，而钟情两分钟小视频——连影响了整整一代人的大神斯皮尔伯格都把电影拍成这种样子了，现代电影还谈什么大师魅力与社会影响力？
最大的问题在于，在当下精神供给异常丰裕的环境里，单纯的“茱罗恋”已经无法打动我们的心，因此男女主角不被允许的爱情根本无法让人产生共鸣。所以，在选角上头一定一定要找那种特别养眼特别合观众眼缘的，否则就会让故事全盘崩坏。从头到尾观众只有一个疑问——有没搞错，他杀了她亲哥的当天，她就跟他上床？
斯式招牌下，技术上当然是一流的，但电影却沿用了很老派的风格和表演，而且这个爱情故事怎么看都像是个发情故事。完全无法接受哥哥尸骨未寒的当夜，就心甘情愿和凶手上了床，还用一首天大地大也没我大的歌告诉丧夫的嫂子，不跟杀他哥那人在一起就活不了。你说这是文化差异还是鬼迷心窍了。
（另，剧本和情节虽然有病又奇怪，但是我忍了！）
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