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".
奥运会选出来的是人类最强健的体魄，残奥会选出来的是最不屈的灵魂。“不平凡”的人一样可以追求梦想。
成年的苏桦伟在火车旁，昂首立在阳光下勾起嘴角，轻风拂过微笑太有希望感了。残奥的确不如奥运受大众和媒体重视，同工同酬自然也无从谈起，运动员的生活也更加艰难。
为母则刚，很励志，很感动，演员都演的很生动，表情，眼神都很到位。。揭露了运动员退役的现状，也拍到了残疾运动员的不易，走得慢不要紧，我跑得快，我起步是慢，但这就像我的命一样，我就是要从后面追上去
难能可贵体现残奥运动员艰苦卓绝但又熠熠生辉的运动生涯，同时借由神奇小子看到背后的神奇妈妈，不从宏大叙事层面出发，也没有洒狗血滥煽情，仅仅是关注运动员个人成长和现实生活，一切描摹的真实又冷静，质朴又温暖。
单纯从技术评价，3星不能再多，就像一篇极力想得高分的高考作文，一眼就能看见里面的小心机和程式化。但，我想给它四星，因为它拍出了太多内地不会拍、我们未在意的细节：运动员收入、运动员与商业赞助、运动员退役后状况、残疾运动员的同工同酬、残疾人的恋爱、二娃对残疾亲属的照顾、二娃在家庭中的地位和得到的关爱……这里每一条都能深挖讨论、独立成篇。但内地不会拍，内地只会拍励志鸡血片，除了为粿争光，其他都不重要。
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？
我给满分！演员满分！编剧满分！苏桦伟和体育精神满分！台词满分！“用力哭不如用力跑”“你走的是比别人慢，到你跑的比别人快” 吴君如从岁月神偷之后，越来越棒！
☝️ “一刹那的光辉不代表永恒”，神奇妈妈、神奇小子。
同题材还有《12秒58》苏桦伟本人出演，可以比较观看。
怪我
自从《岁月神偷》后，吴君如对于一个贤妻良母的演绎已经炉火纯青了。她演的奥运冠军他妈，显然比他老公导的奥运冠军，更好一些。
还是比较喜欢传记纪实类的片子，很真实。体育类型的片子很难突破几个主题，比如前期的一路高光，之后的颓败，与现实的差距等等。这部片子基本上都涵盖了这些元素，核心是母爱，更深层的是思考冠军退役后的心酸与现实，这些都是体质无法给予的，未免会让人心寒。
开头几乎是立马就开始流泪 但到后面略显疲软了 吴君如演妈妈演的太传神了 眼神属实细腻 贡献了好多泪点 全片的竞技色彩没有很浓厚 更多的是刻画社会现状以及运动员的穷途末路 有些悲凉 收尾没有把价值输出推上高度 还是不太到位的 但很有意义 值得去电影院观看
普普通通 非常俗套 一些励志 一些煽情 就是完全没有被触动啊……
最末尾有个感动点。
听到爸爸和弟弟的打呼声，泣不成声
102min院线删减粤语版。
“所有人都當你唔係一個普通人，咁你就當一個唔普通嘅人。“”唔使驚，驚就輸一半。”“我已經輸咗2場，係咯，咁仲有乜好驚。”“
前半段追逐梦想，后半段进入现实。打动我的，是揭露残障运动员在社会上的不公平对待。妈妈的戏份盖过了主角，片尾过于煽情
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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