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".
看得很过瘾，静下来想想这部电影的讽刺和深度都不足，制片人的角色成了工具人，伊凡的结局显得画蛇添足。尽管如此还是完成了及格线以上的讽刺喜剧发挥，中远景增加喜剧效果，而出色的表演时刻吸引着观众，外加一些影迷向的恶搞——嗯，看着也不赖。不必非得深入，why so serious?
一部中规中矩的献礼片，一部差点意思的灾难片，一部令人尴尬的亲情片；首先要说，这部电影足够的主旋律，大篇幅的昂扬向上牺牲自我精神的描述，大段大段“喊口号”式的表决心，令我无数次尴尬不已却深感爱国之心；作为灾难片，特效还好，朱一龙的主角也算做了一次好莱坞式英雄，飞檐走壁能文能武，关键是打不死，恢复能力极强；最糟糕的是亲情戏，不合时宜的争吵和做作的原谅牺牲，充斥着父子俩之间的交流；片中少有的触动我的点，是焦俊艳的几个表情特写和陈数几次下决定时细微的“眼技”；
有些情节确实比较假 但不管演技怎么样 鼻头还是会酸
中国没有诺亚方舟，没有天父，我们中国人只有精卫填海和愚公移山，人定胜天。
特效牛逼！！精卫填海和愚公移山精神，剧情冲突、父子情，牛逼！！
大难来临，血肉之躯无以抵挡。但每个渺小的个体又都自这无力的局面中生出无限的勇气来，这力量的悬殊最是令人动容，明知不可为而为之，才是真正的英雄。
题材是好的，立意是好的，但剧本、特效终究还是不足，真遗憾，希望我们的电影越来越好
明知强行煽情的剧，而我却还是忍不住哭出来。铁道兵太伟大了，他们是和平年代牺牲最多的兵种，他们精卫填海，愚公移山。成昆铁路、襄渝铁路平均每一公里就牺牲一个铁道兵！我想以后每坐一次高铁，都会感恩一遍这些伟大的无名的铁道兵英烈们！
——鲁迅《热风》
剧情比较老套，跟期待的有落差。洪翼舟他们怎么出的山洞那些一笔带过，衔接不好。而且主角光环太过了……
普通，马马虎虎，开头特效做的有点硬，就像国企宣传片
很好的电影，我们的国家坚持生命至上，人民至上，不会为了经济利益放弃人民，我的人民也爱护国家，不惜用自己的生命去拯救更多人的生命。
終於知道為什麼老一輩把演員稱作「跳梁小丑」，或者用廣東話講「馬騮戲」⋯所謂方法演技不過是戲太多，穿上戲服就是持牌唬人，對症下藥便是王道；順帶調侃了一下自以為比好萊塢高尚的歐洲，惰性是褒是貶永遠成疑。安東尼奧班德拉斯演的是橫跨歐美、食兩家茶米的自己，當被罵「金錢的奴隸」，他用一句「你也是奴隸，只是金錢比我少」有力還擊；忽然聯想到即將上映的某漫改救市大作被曝出「一人分飾兩角」是權宜之計的內幕，如此看來本片的尺度也算小了⋯
看完之后深深感觉到铁建人的不容易！平时坐高铁从没想过是怎么样建成的，没想到每一条隧道都可能历经多年的千辛万苦！电影里的每一个角色都很棒👍🏻展现出了我们的中国式英雄！中国式救援！这是一部老少皆宜的电影，推荐观看！
3.5；黑色幽默的成分，赋予本片一种灵动的气质，把常见的讽刺业内题材拍得颇有可看性，讽谑味挺足。戏中戏互为镜像，教科书级的演技实力演绎何谓影帝影后。
演员阵容强大，剧情有点拉胯，要是特效再真实点就完美了，总得来说还是很紧张惊险感人的片子。
意料之外的完整了，感情、叙事都收得刚刚好。
一个个人物那么鲜活，在生死考验下，他们是那么决绝，例如老洪，小洪，丁总，小靳……
国产灾难片能拍成这样很意外很惊喜。情节紧凑情感真挚没那么多啰里八嗦的，比隔壁美国家的那什么沙丘好了不知道几十倍。
被普及了铁道兵的常识，和平年代牺牲最大的部队，感谢这群人
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