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".
运动员的光辉是一时的，要走的路却是一辈子的。
对比《了不起的老爸》，这一部很明显更接地气，描画出了残障运动员的真实处境，这还是拿了冠军的，那些没拿奖的呢？
前半部分剧情的推动就如同画面滤镜一般童话，站起来靠逼、跑起来靠天赋，零到英雄的过程貌似只是“进度条”的功劳。后半部分家庭矛盾激化反而更点出“难”，整体来说就及格。这送去奥斯卡岂不被人当笑话。
有些巧合过于刻意。但戏剧冲突嘛！可以理解！希望能够得到对于残障运动员的重视。北京冬残奥会开幕后更觉得信心运动员很了不起啊。
太煽情，完全沒有建立任何東西的情況下就不停地煽情。over了。
上院线，被观看，删减，都没问题，但提名金像奖就不必了吧
还有一点感触：训练来不得一点马虎和分心，“偷懒”的每一分都会应验在自己身上。
很好哭的一部电影，剧本改得很成功，从今年井喷的体育励志热血燃爆电影中另辟蹊径，讲了残障运动员的生存困境，瞬间的灿烂不代表永恒，但是为那个夺冠的瞬间，值了！
本应是妈妈的视角，可能导演不想变成吴君如一个人的独角戏，所以把母子关系一碗水端平了，故事的深度和力度都差了口气。
电影完全没有进入一个残障运动员真实生活的内部，无论剧本，演员，台词，服装，像极了塑料味极重的装饰，不仅在在痛苦与煎熬的外部滑行，而且在试图制造感动的过程里，因为浮贴，隔离，而不断消解真实事件的感人力量。
止于情绪唤起的励志传记。中国特色的母爱是沉重的，也是令人窒息的。
稍為可惜:
☝️ “一刹那的光辉不代表永恒”，神奇妈妈、神奇小子。
有些巧合过于刻意。但戏剧冲突嘛！可以理解！希望能够得到对于残障运动员的重视。北京冬残奥会开幕后更觉得信心运动员很了不起啊。
三星半。母亲在家里是不允许看残疾人运动会的，原因是，残疾人生活已很不易，更不要说残疾人运动员，不是不喜看，是不忍看。影片挺感人的，但是我的关注点是影片立意是什么？是了不起的神奇妈妈，还是了不起的神奇小子，抑或是神奇小子的神奇妈妈，说实话，我没看懂。还有，到现在为止，残疾人的现状有没有解决？运动员和残疾运动“同薪同酬”是否有实现？
运动员也太辛苦，只有拿到第一才能享受聚光灯打在自己身上的荣耀。
残奥赛场上当之无愧的“苏神”！片子拍得非常澎湃，儿童、少年和成年三个阶段的演员外貌和气质契合度也非常高，吴君如多年积淀的演技也让人刮目相看。
5分 毫无矛盾冲突 在没有渲染的情况下过度煽情 看完一头雾水不知道导演想表达什么 到底是关注运动员退役收入还是渲染母爱 太凌乱了
喜剧演员来演正剧，总是有种泪中带笑的快慰，所以吴君如姐姐让我今天在电影院准备的一包纸巾没有用完哈哈哈哈。
又见君如姐又见麦太，只是这次，麦兜成功了，麦太也没有离开去太空。
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