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".
做好电影容易，做好人很难，现实中可遇不到这么多好人。
好看，非常好看👍全员演技在线，现实主义小人物的题材最感人，也最让人共情，看到小奇迹小队战斗力满满，碰到任何困难都勇敢向前，这种精神值得我们每个人学习，虽然创业很辛苦，但看完心里还是有点痒痒的，也有点想创业的想法，可能是毕业后本来就有这种想法吧，看完后苗头更甚了😂
就……有佳句但也有烂句，佳句固然非常可以，烂句却也如鲠在喉，所以整体不能说是佳章的一个片儿。搞三个导演还是有点风格内冲，完全可以剪到两个小时，黄轩好评。
战争片段长又怎么样，真的没有尿点。
3.5，合格的春节档作品，一些追车桥段过于夸张，以致到了不合理的程度。结合时事和春晚，本片里坚韧勇敢的女性角色让人热泪盈眶。（四字真是优质原始股啊）
叔本华说活着是为了避免痛苦，而不是追求幸福。而有时候痛苦已经无法避免。普通人只能尽人事相信有奇迹。
高楼大厦下从来不缺人间苦痛，人大概是这世上最越挫越勇的存在了
主角光环和某些超越单兵作战理解的部分减了一分。战争场面宏大，战场画面刺激写实，故事讲的恰如其分没有怎么说教和样板。其实近些年的主旋律属于越拍越好的趋势，也可能是年轻人们在经历了某些国际对抗后，多生出了许多对自己家国的期望和爱护吧。
我觉得开头场景跟断肢很林超贤风，里面的对比真的好强烈，那时候的解放军真的太伟大了，那些被冻死的在雪地里，还有雷公死的时候我真的难受，赚了好多观影人的眼泪，我觉得这种可以多拍点。
不愧是首部作品我不是药神就能30亿的文保保，奇迹的群像戏拍的太好了，从主演到配角，每一个都很棒！千玺又贡献了稳定又细腻的表演，特别好的电影
妹妹治疗费用+场子房租水电+深圳个人吃喝拉撒+员工每月开价1k × 6 =洗楼工资
第二年大年初一观影with姑～ 看章宇千玺同台飙戏太过瘾了！一部年轻人背负责任拼搏奋斗到频繁掉眼泪 没跟着哭只替他揪心想冲进去帮他 温暖善良的好人不分贫富贵贱 相互之间的磁场都相互滋养。
一个狠而又幸运的人的故事，其实希望最后没有什么CEO的…
其它方面都不错，最大的败笔是最后那个敬礼，堪称恶心了，把前面中国人的顽强作战完全抹杀，因为这个动作的潜台词是：就连强大的美国军队也不得不佩服我们，给我们敬礼。这个动作表示，导演或编剧心理上认为美国军队更强大，而且他们更有道德感，很大程度上美化了美国军队。而实际上，当时美国人的真实动作是补刀，没有什么敬礼，美国人，强盗的后代，没有那么高尚。
本片的目的达到了，但是拍摄手法技巧不敢恭维，三位大师就这水平？有意识的从小人物角度讲述战争，但是主次节奏紊乱，每次有点感动了就开始调笑；最后的人道主义虽然立意很好，但在这里没有必要；特效有点假且风格不搭，尤其是片头秋景和火车上的长城；几处口号式的台词，意思我都懂，但太过直白不符合角色及场景，看得我一脸尴尬。
前面大半部分节奏和叙事感都不错，能够快速引人进入那冰天雪地的艰苦场景，也能看到角色的成长，后面煽情略微过了。每次看完战争的残酷，就会更觉得生活美好。
导演之间合作有太多考量了，还是期待将来林超贤的出新作。
胡军的那个角色太感人了 整体而言还不错吧 特别喜欢最后那个几个战士被冻住的镜头 特别像雕像 庄严肃穆 画面整体色调有种油画的感觉 缺点的话打的部分感觉可以再删一些 看的有点累
故事有点单薄，几处转折过于生硬，实话我没感动到
故事特简单甚至有点无聊，但拍得挺好，蛮适合贺岁档的
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