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".
哈哈哈哈哈看得好开心，太久没看无脑爆米花了，一边看一边傻笑，所有的套路我都吃了，而且刘思慕最后决战那个ending pose居然还有点小帅，不过伟仔老了好多哦呜呜。公交车和脚手架两场打斗戏很酷啊，吸收了不少港片的影子，不过最后进入村庄里大战神龙反而就有点无聊，山海经神兽的部分融合得似乎还不太够，但也没法要求更多了吧。最重要的是，套了一个美式背景讲述华人家庭，一个专制执拗甚至蛮横的中国父亲，孩子在这样的阴影里成长，一生都在等一个道歉，这样的母题我还是蛮有共鸣的。总之我觉得是个合格的爆米花片，现在立刻马上就想看第二部尚气2之尚气不接夏气（我编的），嘻嘻。
看到尚气拿到老爸的五环时，五环之歌在我的脑子里开始疯狂回放 “啊 五环，你比四环多一环，啊 五环，你比六环少一环”。故事就很好莱坞，看个开头就大概知道了结局。所以注意力全都集中在其他奇奇怪怪的点上了，比如和尼先生争论这龙看起来像不像一只中国龙；talo村的颜色稍微艳俗，如果换老谋子来，色彩会高级很多；尚气在水里的时候我以为他吃了哈利波特的鳃囊草；尚气和katy没有cp感…
2021-10-4阅。豆瓣影评“尚气全剧透”基本是瞎编。先前网上揭批黑豹设定辱非的一个手法就是把内容一一替换成中国刻板印象，让国人感受非洲人的心理。现在不用感受了：完全不如黑豹。黑豹至少还有点非洲未来主义美术（比如“外星科技长矛”啥的）。这片整个左宗棠鸡落后主义美术全方位巨丑无比，哪怕照着仙侠片拍至少能看，这塔罗“土著巫术长棍”算哪门子东亚奇幻。辱华吗？辱北美亚裔吧。12-18补了彩蛋。
里面萌萌的神物，是不是就是传说中的大屁股脸！同事们作为marvel粉丝看的都比我早。至于我倒是很高兴第一次有机会说出这个理由，“我从来没在大银幕上见过亚洲/中国的超级英雄，当然要去看看”。我觉得很好看的娱乐片，制作方不是中国人，也不是拍中国文化的起源，另外没必要把之前的超英片抬多高，大家不都是娱乐吗？我说主演长得像那谁，物理大哥觉得牵强，问我“那你觉得我像梁朝伟不”。｜不足的是，尚气到了妈妈的家乡，怎么忽然就下决心要弑父，很是突兀啊。不过说到底好莱坞也不会拍杀爹的吗，感觉这种冲突太西方了。希望这个电影能在中国上映啊！
前后差别好大，父子俩撕逼之后明显好看很多。上一次看到梁朝伟这么恋爱脑得是10年前了吧，如花的话神龙也不用做得那么拉风啊！其实刘思慕不是很丑，但是每当镜头从他切到梁朝伟，就很残忍，残忍，忍。
Totally racism and shit
不管情节是否真的make sense ，但是至少'尚气'是一个很正面的华人超级英雄。 对国外生活的小孩子来说，是很不错的形象。里面关于中国人家庭的一些描述也很有代表性。
真丧气，我吃过的盐比你吃过的饭还多？我看过的烂片，比你看过的新闻联播还多。特效经费烧出来这么个东西。远离尘世的桃花源很有国际范，竟然会中英双语。武术设计像是双人现代舞。
后半段止不住的尴尬…动作戏不错，最后的龙之战如果在IMAX银幕呈现一定很磅礴，所以还是加一星吧。。。。
即使放在整个MCU系列里，这部起源故事的质量也是能排在头三位的。动作设计精良（华纳说的就是你看看你的母体4再看看人家），填上了铁人3的坑，而且主创团队明显是认真研究过中国文化的（完全不是花木兰那回事），融合了西方的弑父以及东方的屠龙情结也足能看出其诚意，只可惜，他们只了解了中国文化，却对中国人毫不了解。最后只能祝福所有认为此片辱华的祖国人们永生永世只能看长津湖了——哦对不起，原来已经是了啊！（鼓掌
明辱改成了暗辱，还要淘你的钱包，真的不行。－－－－－－李小龙才是黄种人反击白皮种族歧视的先驱。拍《好莱坞往事》那时，布拉德皮特还知道要改掉李黑剧本，不要触这个霉头。至于这一部么，就看片方的头铁不铁了。7/7/2021
“你长得很像你妈”
整体很惊喜 画面特效 动作和bgm都好用心
这个片子即使没有华人背景它的剧本也是有很大问题的，很多地方逻辑不通，充斥着lazy writing，突然给出一个前面没有铺垫的东西来解决现在的问题，譬如那只无脸鸡猪，譬如神龙之心……最无语是满大人“此地无银三百两”的出现，不仅要再强调一遍这个角色不过是个蹩脚演员而且坏事儿还是梁朝伟让干的……刘思慕单看没问题，惨在和梁朝伟同框。文武那个不甘心的摇头我真是反复观看，梁朝伟随便甩个眼神给这部片子都太富裕了，甚至都有些浪费。两星半
而你把你自己的儿子当杀手，你选择了十环而不是我们
太喜欢Awkwafina了，混身都是戏，戏精本精。
本质一坨屎的东西给你装饰一下就不是屎了吗？
Talo的美术风格真的很像王者荣耀？梁朝伟感觉其实也就是个常规的中国爹？看个热闹还是挺好的，能把满大人这么圆回来也不差
铁线拳老师傅托尼梁（注：不是Ip Man）败在八卦掌侠女手下，于是率电气吴钩队唤醒恶龙，要屠灭少林村的故事。关键时刻名叫“疝气”的英雄崛起，失踪6载年方20岁代客泊车的他经历了什么？只有密过老爸的抬头纹知道。anyway英雄兄妹率中国神龙大战西方恶龙，各种辣眼睛造型致敬美国人心目中伟大的亚洲传统。其实真有心的话何必插曲《加州旅馆》？请小岳岳来高歌两遍《五环之歌》，早就敲开大国电影市场大门了，后来者不可不知。
梁朝伟太帅了 高潮部分跟姐妹互摇对方在电影院直喊牛 鸡皮疙瘩起一身 片尾居然有两个彩蛋 还好没早离场
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