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".
即使评分很低，但我确确实实看泪目了两三处，最后的成功也很振奋
情感烘托还可以，但中间有几幕时间跨度大的部分有点碎
两个主要演员确表现出色，真的扮演出来了母亲与残障儿子之间的动人感情，以演技已经能够让人动情。
【22/58】本以为只是励志片，结果残障平权同工同酬只是一带而过。支持吴君如冲金像
值得一提的是，这些特殊人群在影片中往往都是子女的角色，无论是《孔雀》中的“胖子”、《海洋天堂》中的王大福、《左耳》中的“小耳朵”、《一念无明》中的阿东、《了不起的老爸》中的肖尔东、《妈妈的神奇小子》中的苏桦伟……这也导致国产电影中的亲情元素在与其他类型融合的同时，不断将触角伸到了特殊人群，扩展了自身人文关怀的范畴。
很順暢的一部傳記電影，另一個層面來說，實在太工整了些。後三分之一高潮反而過度煽情了，台詞設計感太重。最喜歡阿偉替媽媽掛上金牌那場戲，母子之間的親暱和溫情表露無遺。幾位主角的表演幾乎都沒有什麼表演痕跡，很讓人驚喜。當然這類題材的出現，能受到主流人群的關注，本身就是一件很棒的事。
係演員的形象很貼合角色，
吴君如很适合这种温情片。感觉弟弟有点可怜……从被生出来的动机到后面的对待都觉得有点可怜……
【22/58】本以为只是励志片，结果残障平权同工同酬只是一带而过。支持吴君如冲金像
算是给题材的加分吧，一种关注。本片我倒是还算喜欢，不仅有着对人物细腻的刻画，也将残奥会运动员的不易描写了出来。残奥会终究是不如奥运会关注大，所以同工同酬很难实现，电影直到最后也没有回答这个问题。一次冠军是不够的，即使得了多次冠军也是不够的，电影的最后，也只是定格在了北京奥运会夺冠那一幕，但是电影后半部分所聚焦的残奥会运动员退役之后如何生活也没回答。总之，电影只把励志的鸡汤不断灌输，却对问题只提出却不解决，整体我还是不太满意的。
这么温暖的题材，有点不忍心说缺点。可如果一味追捧本片，反而不是一件好事。影片有着优秀的原本素材，不错的配角演员，可惜，影片主要内容不明，贪心到要拍每一届奥远历程，实际上不如重点拍第一次或者最后一次就行，另外妈妈的戏太多，吴君如是一个好演员，但这一次表演过于用力。无论如何鼓励这样的题材多拍吧，支持多多关注弱势人员。。。
传记没什么出彩的地方，有点阿甘的意思，可是真实事件改编又不能说是阿甘，香港挺强大的，弹幕一个个到是够酸的，弟弟生来就是为了照顾哥哥，这个弟弟感觉命运更悲惨。
残疾运动员苏桦伟的传记影片，从背景交代到个人成长再到矛盾冲突之间的起承转合都完成得不错，有奥运精神与现实之间的艰难抉择，亦有母亲与残疾儿子之间的伦理思考，但略显不足，整体还是呈现了中国人自强不息的民族性格，告诉大家只要自强每一个妈妈都会“神奇”，每一个儿子都会是“小子”。正如现在的香港，以往共聚“狮子山”，现在背靠“大湾区”，只要自强何惧之有。
大概是因为去看电影之前看了各种片段，本想哭一场却没实现。运动员真是不容易，残障运动员更不容易，希望同工同酬！苏桦伟很辛苦，妈妈很辛苦，弟弟很心酸，一直活在哥哥的影子中。
相比纪实，更偏重热血和煽情了，感觉就是激励加跑，情节就像过场动画。反倒是身边的人表现得更多，救不救？不救是对生命的漠视，救是对亲人的拖累，毕竟有天赋的凤毛麟角人生尚且如此波折，无天赋的残障人士想来更加命途多舛了。
用力哭，不如用力跑！真是醍醐灌顶的一句话！感动，励志，已经不需要说太多！但很真实的反映了残疾运动员的现实生活状况以及母亲的心路历程，每个人都不容易，但依然在努力……
输在起点不重要，重要得是知道终点在哪。四届金牌送给母亲当嫁妆，把哭的力气留在传送带后站起来的自己。如果能追上来，十三个月的酬劳可以没有后顾之忧，只是同工同酬在市场经济下显得多么可笑。
吴君如让人一秒入戏，可惜这部电影的境遇恰如其分的诠释了残奥会的冷遇
可惜劳模刘德华并没有像唐探3那样，作为隐藏彩蛋出现
更比偉仔本人更似殘障人士。
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