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".
说实话，整部的节奏感觉像被拉长了一倍，但杀人见血的高马尾剑心简直太有魅力。第一幕的衔剑杀人和剑心不想止于形地邀请巴一起居住的时候，周围的观众都有哇出声来（
最后一部影院看的预告片，一直拖着不想看。越还原就越失真显尬，马达老本写的出戏演的诡异，像是黄毛班长的两个课代表抢班花，但一个巫师支线连做三次也会开始在乎谁被谁戳死，被带上的道具组就比较惨
出人意料，第三段的女性视角将一个平淡的故事升华出了女权主义思想
开始以为是类似罗生门这样的剧本，但事实是蛮清楚的，就是原来的好基友抢了爵士地盘又强奸了他的妻子，这仇恨使得最后的结局不言而喻。唯一的区别只是大家都会各自美化自己的言行。最后决斗胜利属于尚非常符合逻辑，毕竟尚一直在征战而勒格里斯后来成了皮尔的会计终日沉迷酒色也忘了初心。玛格丽特是忍辱负重，婆婆不待见老公粗暴没情调，性生活也不和谐，还好最后守得云开。
三个视角的讲述完全多余，只对某一部分有帮助
全方位地证明了叙事艺术的魅力，这样的作品在如今“剧集盛电影衰”的时代里可太珍贵了。
时长很长，但每一场戏都像急着拍完跳到下一场。三个主角的刻板程度令人震惊 。雷德利最好的电影的主角永远是尼采式的超人。《普罗米修斯》里的大卫简直就是《论道德的谱系》里走出来的金发雅利安野兽。但那些“软弱”的人，在他电影里近乎无一例外地面目模糊……
一个男人的荣耀成了女人的窒息。三个视角剖析的完整故事，不同的镜头细节分化私心的种种表象。一句“若以情欲之眼看待女性，那么在心中就已犯下淫欲之罪”足以令人无可反驳
三分之一就知道要打拳，好在剧本精巧，令人深思到底是不是司机被设了局，做了笼子。1080P 21/12/01
1、借古讽今，男性凝视下的中世纪强奸案，三重视角三方心理解剖得明明白白；2、太阳底下无新事，自古皆有之，最后的决斗充满讽刺意味。
黑泽明用樵夫的视角见证了一场菜鸡互啄，让人深感人性无望的崩溃；《最后的决斗》里让宗教、政权围观了一场罗马斗兽，将本应严肃的审判变成一场儿戏，不是为了女性申冤，只是为了男性的“财产”不受侵犯，荣光属于男性。庆幸的是，字幕至少给了一丝微光。
夫人誓死捍卫真相和最后的决斗结果，并未给女性带来正义和荣誉，无非重新刷亮和捍卫了一次男权，镜头给到了最后一刺，再次感叹影视中的匕首即是另一种“性器”，强暴跟性别无关，王权借助男权把必不可少的暴力外部化到了决斗仪式之中，逃脱了死亡又凝聚了大众对男权的信念和臣服……某种程度上我们离欧洲中世纪封建又有多远呢……
雷德利·斯科特宝刀不老。电影在不同视角回忆之下保持主干吻合而细节撼动观感乃至事件本质这一点做得相当不错，能看出每个人都在保持大体诚实然后有意或无意地为自己辩解，不过这俩男的在对待女人方面显然是虚伪地美化自己。最后一场决斗戏非常精彩，从三位主角到围观的国王贵族贫民各个立场和阶层的刻画都简洁到位，马达和司机打架的部分也是逻辑清晰剪辑流畅又血脉贲张，结尾部分雷德利拍出来的人情味和娱乐性多一点，我是非常愿意站队玛格丽特的，换库布里克的话可以想象“愚蠢人类”的上帝视角审视会更突出
一个女性的生命和清白只能由两个男性的决斗来决定，而他们决斗却只是为了各自的声誉。
斯科特真的是老女权了。《罗生门》式叙述讲这个故事恰到好处，叙事从容不迫，最后一段精彩的中世纪对决则把之前挤压的情绪全部用暴力的方式释放了出来，而这种暴力性、命运的随机感，起到的作用又不仅仅是释放情绪，它进一步升华了整部电影的议题。
三個視角來論述同一件事，但三個視角幾乎沒有任何差別，感覺就是一段素材用了三遍。在 Me Too 運動浪潮持續在全球延燒的今天，這個文本對這個議題和女性的刻劃依舊非常表面，對瑪格麗特的勇敢和痛苦都非常非常的敷衍⋯⋯也不只是女性角色，所有的角色全都是只打了個草稿就拿出去拍的感覺。可惜了一個那麼好的故事了。
4星，影片时间太长，3人角度呈现一个故事内容，太多重复情节观感略差。片子并不高大上，但优点是也没有刻画任何一个高大全的英雄人物。反而让人觉得更接近真实世界，故事就是利益冲突， 双方积怨已久， 早晚要打。有没有女人这档子事都得打。 女人这个事反而就是一个最好的由头， 给了男主一个天赐良机，逼迫对手用男主最擅长的方式进行决斗。 男主身经百战， 男二花天酒地，双方曾是朋友，什么实力都心知肚明。 男主愚笨但有战斗的勇气，愚者千虑必有一得。 男二狡猾但管不住裤裆，智者千虑必有一失。女主作为时代的弱势群体，敢于大胆揭露，可歌可敬。整体来说，值得一看。
三颗星是对这个片子最客观的评价，你说它有什么不好，也并没有，质感不错，演得不错，但也完美诠释了哆啦A梦里野比那个经常出现的表情包：“特意把大家喊出来，就是为了这点儿事啊？”这片子内容平庸无趣到B站多如牛毛蹭热度的影视区UP主都没人有兴趣做一下，因为这片子没什么槽点，可也确实乏味到没什么东西值得讨论。悲哀的美国电影现在已经重新分成了三大类：装B，NC，无趣。不知复苏要等到什么时候。
刚看完觉得为女性发声，服化道不错，表现手法新颖，忍不住叫好。睡了一觉醒来想想，三个视角但不是罗生门，导演的意图太明显了，用明示和暗示来表达自己的观点，让人很容易总结中心思想。
非常有趣而深邃的一部电影，当时的性关系是封建欧洲的等级（封臣与领主）关系的镜像，再次揭示力比多、ego与政治的隐秘纽带。
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