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".
易烊千玺的演技还是非常棒的。题材也很适宜。最后Beyond的海阔天空太感人了！
看见平凡人的努力！刚开始觉得就是爽文吧，但是谁不是在自己的生活里拼尽全力呢？
拍不出来不用硬拍，每一个部分都好割裂，看得让人烦躁
赶药神还是差太多了。演员演技在线，但剧情上还差点意思。
结尾只是理想，现实是残酷的。这种小人物大多是悲剧收场。
说实话，我就想说，这个故事也能算奇迹?这部电影没有给我太多的真实感，我没有看见小人物有多努力，我只看见主角在经历一点点小倒霉后得到了许多人一辈子都得不到的幸运，随随便便拆个机就能挣上百万!!?而且除去主角，其他人根本没有生活压力，感觉他们的存在就是为了帮助男主的，典型的主角光环，配角围绕主角转，太悬浮太不真实了。同时，妹妹这个角色更是没有塑造好，真的完全没看出来她病得很重，也不能让我体会到主角对钱的急切渴望。好作品源于好故事，如果没有好故事，那还是别拍了吧😅
时刻在看进度条。怕有新的不成功。3.5⭐️吧。四字弟弟有很大进步了
中规中矩，像喝了一杯白开水，说不出来不好，但是也没啥滋味～不过小人物小事件放大很好，就一个故事线看起来不会疲劳～
一篇合格的命题作文，抑扬顿挫，规矩工整，但故事本身缺少真正的灵魂和亮点。胜在演技吧，易烊千玺还是完成的非常出色的。小女孩也乖巧可爱。田雨没太多发挥空间，按照他的演技，应该再多些亮点的。
一个来自深圳华强北的创业奇迹，一个20岁年轻人所承受的生命之重，一个在中国的八九十年代才会发生的故事。导演太娴熟了，剧本太精致了，心思缜密到了每一个细节，任何可能被诟病的地方都能被填上，至少能自圆其说。童话与现实互相找补，榫卯般贴合，这是剧作技术的胜利，却是艺术的残缺。当孤儿景浩带着残疾人、老人、怪人、废人坐电梯升上高层与赵总谈判，然后再坐电梯下降，这时奇迹就已经完成了。在下降中欢呼，才是底层人的尊严和亮色。更真实的生活，其实是好景不常在，景浩不常有，与其说一个上去了的故事，不如说一个上去过的故事，这是更广泛也更真诚的悲悯。
虚空树靶子，似乎在为灵鹫宫弟子打鸡血谋出路。可好景不会每日常在，窗花不可幽禁落霞。
虽然不能理解没钱交房租为什么能有钱直接开个厂，但不妨碍我哭成狗…
中间段落太让人绝望了，也稍显刻意，不过整体不错，虽然我们都知道结局，但过程更重要
从景浩追火车那一刻起，就有了理想主义的色彩
血汗打工人，又是一个“大有可为”的题材
泪点很密集，而且都戳在了疼的地方。可环境再艰难，到底还是熬出头了。景浩就跟千玺弟弟一样，代表不了普通的大多数。为了跟“赵总”见上一面，不该鼓励拼到这种程度就为了一句话吧。作为献礼片，小文导演和宁监制也很崩溃吧。
对于命题作文来说，成色可谓是相当可以。但是这个故事本身其实严重缺乏普适性，它讲述的归根结底是一个成功者的故事，在极少数的成功者之外，是万万千千没能成功、甚至永远陷于泥沼的人。真正的致敬，可以献给成功者，更加得献给失败者。
主旋律的作品能拍成这样，煽情却克制住了滥情，整体积极向上折中，也算是在中国影视环境内发掘出了一条新路。
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。
结尾只是理想，现实是残酷的。这种小人物大多是悲剧收场。
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