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".
“千里万里赴战场，如今山河已无恙”。
有好几个瞬间让我觉得历史和我眼前的时空重叠在一起，切实地感受到那段峥嵘岁月。
原来不间断的爆炸也算是带有催眠效果的白噪声，我上次大白天在影院睡着还是看「变形金刚4」，真诚推荐给最近睡眠不好的朋友，即便你在观影时没睡着，看完之后大概率也会累的想赶紧睡一觉。
3.5星。中规中矩。打得一拳开，免得百拳来。
印象深刻的还是吴京饰演的伍千里，这位七连连长，在他拿着笔要在本本上画XX（不想剧透）的时候，我眼泪就忍不住了，这是内心怎样的挣扎，这是内心怎样的痛苦，这是内心怎样的决绝。还好，他们有着强大的信念，他们没有过多抒发情绪的时间，也很感谢那些为了新中国，新生活出生入死的烈士们，我们将铭记于心！电影战争场面震撼，气势恢宏，不容错过！
你看，未来没有辜负你们。
第一是前面大多数时间是以点代面，这个点还没讲完，后面就突然跳跃到大局观，这个点没了前后呼应。就像听了两小时武松打虎的评书，最后十分钟就讲到了梁山招安。
三个小时一点都不觉得长，我们现在没有硝烟的日子都是靠前辈们的浴血奋战换来的😭
一般般，没预期的好，两场打斗都有些过于冗长，看着累，毛、彭、麦等人的出场都突兀，不如剪了，只要有宋将军和史密斯师长出镜就行了
看的首映，前半段真的很不错，那种从家里坐上火车去异国他乡战斗的场景。后半段太主旋律电影了，兰小龙的剧本斯以为还是更适合拍成电视剧。
整部电影由几场战争戏串起来，剧情可以忽略，致敬革命先烈
特效，万里的戏份有点出戏，用力过猛。还是胜在历史意义。
lg的牺牲 我相信没有谁看了会不为之动容 先辈们真的很伟大 不能忘记今日的幸福是先辈们用身躯换来的
特别喜欢段奕宏在剧中说的一句话，个十百千万，还没完没了了。这是对穿插连的伍万里说的，而他的大哥伍百里二哥伍千里和他在一个连队，大哥已经牺牲，他又入伍。这正是一个缩影，在抗美援朝乃至二战时期，多少人前赴后继，我们落后但我们不退后，我们弱小但我们不屈服。每每看到这样的影片都为生活在这个时代感到幸福，他们的抛头颅洒热血是为了我们不战争。伍千里，伍万里，繁华盛世，如你所想。影片场面宏大，不愧是制作成本最贵的一部电影，声效特效完美，剧情扣人心弦，一波未平一波又起，很有沉浸感，关键是吴京，胡军，段奕宏等等都是超级戏骨！打call！
电影打仗场面很激烈，但人物形象刻画不足，也看了些别人的影评，某些观感一致。
片子一个是片长太长，战争片2个多小时看到后面乏了，还一直炮火轰耳朵。二是头重脚轻，长津湖之战显得不够重头。三是对角色的刻画还是缺少惊喜，群戏有些让人记不住角色，除了胡军的角色，其他人都不太惊喜。
国产战争片巅峰，突突突突突突突突，缺点就是，长得有点过火。
首先，向志愿军致以最崇高的敬意，他们是英雄，是史上最强轻步兵，也是最可爱的人。这部电影啊，虽然是难得的好片，但是作为军迷和曾经的军人，总觉得差点意思。真没想到，影片中居然没有水门桥，相较之下，乱石滩空袭和炸毁通信塔这两个重点部分，显得可有可无，完全可以精简或删除。而结尾部分，特级英雄杨根思和冰雕连，处理的太草率了。
片长太长，个别情节与历史事实有出入，演员表演总体到位，还算对的起票价吧
片子一个是片长太长，战争片2个多小时看到后面乏了，还一直炮火轰耳朵。二是头重脚轻，长津湖之战显得不够重头。三是对角色的刻画还是缺少惊喜，群戏有些让人记不住角色，除了胡军的角色，其他人都不太惊喜。
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