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".
工整，精确，无聊。仿佛是吃一个自热锅或者是医院门口的快餐店的鱼香肉丝饭。你不能说他有什么问题或缺憾，但是除了吃饱也不会有更多的想法，高潮戏的写法拍法又是春晚小品式的。这是观众与制作者达成的一种微妙的默契，却又是这个时代的精神展现。
真的非常好看！有笑有泪，全程被景浩的情绪所牵动。
文牧野的电影有一个很好的地方就是把草根阶层的男女老少全照顾到了。整体没有那么惊艳但也可以打个“良好”。四字弟弟挑大梁把这个人物立住了，妹妹好灵，兄妹互动好有爱。结尾如果停在电梯里会更好。“药神”其他人的客串有趣。总体而言是一部暖心的作品。
很克制的深圳故事，4字弟弟不错。原来女工就是《恋爱的犀牛》的齐溪
属于那种一看到开头就知道结尾的爽片，但这绝对是近两年最喜欢的电影了。套路化的剧情因为暖人的底色而格外打动人心，相比于名校的精英对利益的考量，底层工人爷爷的粗糙而内敛的真情才能在柴米油盐的生活中恒久留存，创造奇迹
这个控制力太可怕了，看似永恒静止的山丘下面隐藏的是张开血盆大口的狗。
前面真的挺棒的
越往后越不太行，虽然从第一秒我就应该知道这是一个成功学鸡汤故事，可当我发现它真就是一个成功学鸡汤的时候，多少还是有点失望。
物料被偷为追回手指被夹骨折这场戏对男主来说不亚于屋漏偏逢连夜雨，让人感叹：有些人身处社会底层，无时无刻不想着如何一步一步靠自己的努力往上爬；而有些人，却用旁门左道、惦记着他人的成果…
奔跑吧少年。成功必须要全力奋斗，但是大部分人拼尽全力也无法成功。
挺好的，2022挺适合看这种打鸡血的片子，但是现实只有笨小孩没有奇迹。
相信奇迹吧，但谁能那么有毅力坚持呢？小女孩真的是全片的亮点。
最广大最普通最平凡，
有点用力过猛，全程都在努力绷着藏着，通过人物情绪和关系状态（甚至依赖Greenwood的配乐）去推动叙事，原著文本压制住了影像，不过有几场戏单拎出来还是拍得挺厉害。
看起来很苦，但仍然是个童话故事。四字的演技让妈粉膨胀
标准商业电影，经不起细节的推敲，靠群像撑起故事和立意，结局与煽情都是意料之中且刻意。优点似乎找不到，缺点也不明显，是一部没什么特别意思的片子。电影最后一个个的人物介绍，最无聊了，有意思吗？
让人深刻感受到中国这么大，每个角落都有在默默奋斗的人。以及景浩在公交车上和妹妹说的那句台词“只要努力，没有什么是实现不了的。”奋斗出奇迹，没有笨小孩。人与人之间真的应该多一份善意，我们永远不知道别人在经历什么样的人生。徐峥客串很惊喜，继《超时空同居》之后再演大厨。几个配角都很出色，喜欢社会大哥，人狠话不多。
春节档私心最喜欢的一部。其实缺点很多，煽情过多、冲突太硬、配乐太满。但抛开《我不是药神》太好而带来的过高期望，单就本片来说，质量已经很好。细节控真的很爱文牧野镜头下的蚂蚁、雨衣、元件。他也很擅长写人物，塑造群像炉火纯青。易烊千玺每部作品都值得一夸，捕捉情绪是他的强项，唯独不太好的是台词。
深圳没有人文 没有沉淀 只有一千百万种实现梦想的可能性。
故事很简单，但是很真实，演的就是奋斗中的你我他。
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