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".
p.s.虽然是剧情需要，但桂和反派那种我们倒幕/佐幕“是为了女人获得幸福”这种台词真的很扯。
剑心让人心疼，雪代巴让人心碎……喜欢剑心二十年了，如今终于等来一个堪称完美的句号！再见了，剑心！
直接成文艺片了，回溯剑心十字伤疤的来源，节奏和情绪都慢下来，反高潮结尾，作为系列终结篇倒是也很独特，不过就不要期待动作戏了。剑心在这一部里更像是一个普通武士，没有花哨的招式和超人附体，有村架纯很美，故事略狗血。系列完结，再补一句，谷垣健治，你的动作设计功力已经不逊于你的师傅了。
可以毫不夸张地说，这就是真人漫改系列电影的巅峰之作。
对于整个浪客剑心属于传说的开始，如果奔着凌厉的动作去的朋友可能要失望了，这段主要讲情，讲剑心如何成为剑心。有点感叹，再帅的人的抵御不了时光的冲击。
这部关于斯德哥尔摩综合症的片子lol
分了好几个周末看完了 漫改电影的画面节奏真的很慢呀 村花有很像巴！再次感叹本片打戏的流畅度...
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。
跟动画版很像，不得不说动画版分镜真的很漂亮，还原动画感觉的这个真人版观感也就不错。
除了觉得几个知名演员演着演着又蹦出来了他们自己以外都挺好的，打斗精彩，文戏也让人泪目，那种被命运摆弄的无奈感真的绝了！
果然是之前看过的，又害我看了一遍，雪景yyds，巴——————————！
（虽然对巴的人选有意见但是）就这样了，最完美剑心漫改。
导演一定觉得自己在写诗！摈弃了前几集很多戏谑的元素，气氛严肃了很多。但除了动作戏外所有情节的节奏都慢的出奇！村花心若冰霜、眼神呆滞的演技，表情缺乏层次感，明明该有很多情感和内心戏的角色，和任何角色的对戏却冷冷淡淡，说是丧夫之痛，但总该有对比有变化，才能体现爱上剑心的复杂心路过程。3.5星！一是画面和构图是真的好，二是这个系列终于脱离了不断和怪人砍杀的叙事结构，开始关注剑心作为一个杀手的心态转变的过程，让人感觉焕然一新！PS 建议全程1.25倍速观看，部分文戏1.5倍速观看！
前三分之一都在混乱打杀，挺过开头，如此高手的刀疤的故事也就明白了。
真正的全局展开反而没有在人诛篇里寥寥几个画面来的触动
总觉得有村架纯脸上好似挂着若有若无的虚伪又无辜的微笑……
当年看着动画已经非常感动，有些桥段还是人演比较更能打动人心
在漫画里就被誉为剧情天花板的追忆篇，真人版也没有让人失望啊。虽然打斗没有前几部多，但出血量多啊。更为关键的是，将源头的故事作为最终章，反而深化了故事内核，无愧于片名的the beginning
算是回忆篇吧。应该是在人诛篇前边的。也没有人诛篇精彩。
两笔刀伤，
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