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".
完成度很高，从十年后我与剑心的初次相遇，到追忆篇的完结，我看到了一个完完整整的剑心，巴不仅是剑心的白月光，也是我的白月光，她为剑心带来了生的意义，是剑心的救赎，是剑心的余生，巴啊，更是温柔了少年的我。自此，剑心的故事完美结束，他将和熏，和朋友们在一起，走向那未来，白头偕老，美好的故事将陪伴着剑心。
武戏有些强加了啊，虽然很帅
新撰组剑术考究的还原和杀人剑更凌厉的动作设计，这血量才有剑戟片的样子嘛！桂和高杉晋作惊喜现身，附赠和总司的一战不能再心满意足，部分原作突兀的台词和桥段做的修改好评，结尾扣分但诚意收到了。
全系列最慢的节奏，最多的血浆，最重的情感。但是让有村架纯演巴是最优选择吗，我有很多不同想法。还有，福山雅治没再露一面让本作稍有缺憾。五部看下来，是质量上乘的漫改作。
虽然没有惊心动魄的大决战，但是剑心“人在江湖，身不由己”的弧光画好了最后一笔。
系列最佳，没了那些奇形怪状的二次元造型角色，总算有点时代剧的样子；谷垣健治这一集的动作戏亦属系列最佳，总算见血了，几段刺杀拍得迅猛凌厉，血浆飞溅那个爽快，徐克什么的真该跟他合作一把。可惜导演功力还是不大行，没拍出那种历史潮流中被政客以远大理想之名操控充当杀戮武器的工具人的悲哀，爱情戏也没弄好。村花自身气质偏暖，没演出雪代巴的清冷御姐范。冲田总司那发型入选年度tony奖。3.5
动作戏有点少，而且和总司那场估计期待值太高了看的不是特别过瘾。不过整体动作戏还是设计的不错的。光注意最终章了没注意回忆篇，所以新选组的出现也算意外之喜了，没想到还有池田屋的戏。不过以后前传能不能先拍？虽然佐藤很小只，现在这样叫少年也有点突兀了。又一次激起看原著的心！
很讨厌其他几部浓浓的cos感，属于是美术摆烂的行为
十年生死两茫茫，不思量，自难忘。
这节奏差到窒息，怎么把这个系列看起来文本最好的故事拍成这样的啊
追忆篇本身的文本质量太高，只要不作死，真人电影版就不会太差。看到海女出身的村花说出“你能带来腥风血雨吗”，真是各种时光交错。再一次证明动画剧场版配乐是媲美攻壳95的绝世经典，看到村花和佐藤健归隐山田，耳旁还是自动响起钢琴版和弦乐版的quiet life。真人电影版配乐和动画剧场版配乐的差距就好比普通球员vs梅西。
真人化的确难做，又不能完全复刻，又不能太多加工。
长的我没法不快进，每个人都在装死人脸说死人话。追忆篇动画yyds!
巴的眼神一点没有透露出哀伤，反而因为话多而与人设相悖。反倒是冲田总司的肺结核过于真实。
质感上佳，剧情和OVA基本一致，但砍掉了OVA经典的开头和结尾。配乐不可，和OVA一比简直云泥之别。
动作戏太精彩了，干净利落。杀巴未婚夫的时候，还在飘舞樱花，血腥又美丽。
作为系列最后一部 比倒数第二部先看了 片尾和第一部片头衔接上 这里的感触明显不同
没有无理由的战斗：停不下来的人和停不下来的机器的区别
不清楚历史导致时代背景有点难理解，只知道个大概，外加日语也难好多(。整篇节奏慢了很多，村花一出场仿佛0.5倍速，有些瞌睡，但收尾时还是狠狠被感动了一把。结束时导演突击挨拶，说感谢疫情期间还来观看，还说没看过final的一定要再去看final，当初也纠结了很久顺序问题
基本就是照动画来的，唯一的改动就是白梅香这个我非常喜欢的意象没了
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