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".
林超贤参与的电影必须经典！国内主旋律电影导演第一人！
战争是残酷的，有些地方还可以！但是还是有两点我觉得没有改善，1人物2节奏感！人物上来说还是不够饱满，尤其是伍万里，我个人感觉他在第一部的冲动还可以说是初生牛犊不怕虎的话，那么第二部里的冲动表现就让我对这个人物没有一丝好感，还有就是对美军的刻画还是呆板不够立体！节奏感是现在国产电影急需改进的地方，这电影某些时刻让我觉得好多余，比如抱着五千里的尸体时美军突然的停手不接着烧啦，还有比如一群美军围住啦伍千里突然停手啦？坐看伍千里炸桥吗？实在觉得在故事上需要更多打磨，千万不要只是为了让人感动而强行煽情，水到渠成的自然才能使得故事更有回味，比如像拯救大兵瑞恩
带孩子去看的，深有感触，好好珍惜现在的幸福生活吧，我爱中国。🇨🇳
希望如果有下一部，导演编剧还是多抓抓剧情故事线吧
这不是主旋律电影的进步，是影视行业在前十年得了“小时代”的病之后的康复阶段。前面塑造空洞，以至于后面几个大老爷的大吼大叫，及格线边缘的视觉水平却不如2009年《风声》的平静收尾台词来的震撼。
场面做的好，作为电影是合格的，虽然与战史上的三炸水门桥有区别，而并没有展现冰雕连……
太可了，我三年的眼泪都在这2个多小时里流完了——平河死得太惨烈了，余从戎悲壮，唉，要是把吴京片中的武打动作设计减少一点，就更好了
额，这一部感觉有点删节重要桥段的感觉啊。。剧情有几个点不太连贯，不知道是怎么回事。反套路的拍摄手法还是可圈可点的，当观众以为最后志愿军一定能炸掉桥的时候，桥却还是被修好了。但从这个点里面却可以看出当年敌我双方实力有多么悬殊，但志愿军战士还是那么去了，还是那样打了，这或许是电影给我的最大启示吧！为伟大的志愿军战士默哀！
挺感人的
小目标都完成了，桥炸掉了，但没完全毁掉，最终也没有能真正阻止美军撤退。但是战士们能因为这就不冲锋了吗？他们不会，哪怕拼到不剩一人，他们也要完成任务。他们的牺牲没有意义吗？不是的。
没有冻不死的英雄，没有打不死的英雄，只有军人的荣耀。水门桥旁边的一排粗壮的排水管真是神来之笔，演员的妆容更加真实（尤其是朱亚文的）。伍千里用燃烧的身体苏醒了伍万里，这就是一种传承，整部电影在这里得到了升华！
我哥看电影之前剧透骗我说最后只死了一个人，我满怀期望看到最后👋🏻👋🏻
韩东君被坦克反复碾压的时候，我的心也被碾压了
一想到这只是电影，一想到当年的环境更苦战况更难，就难过的想哭。是电影，更是历史，不能忘的历史……
没看1直接来看2了，有一些场面拍的还挺有趣，但是整体故事性就不太行……
相对于第一部优秀很多，毕竟第一部是塑造人物形象，让角色立体化。这就给第二部起了很大的加成作用。
留个记号：只要不守疫情影响，水门桥的票房估计要比长津湖还高...
致敬先烈！
这部片子感人吗？是感人的，真实吗？有待商榷，宣传的作用大于事实，不过让一些人因为这部电影的争议去了解历史也是一件好事，更多的人了解了真实的抗美援朝，年轻人进一步理解了历史，警钟长鸣。 青山有幸埋忠骨，牺牲的志愿军同志们护住了自己的妻儿老小，再也没有列强可以欺辱他们了，如今人人都能有衣穿，有饭吃，但是打江山容易守江山难，一代人有一代人的长征，盼今世之人勿忘赤子之心，路漫漫其修远兮，吾将上下而求索
没有冻不死的英雄，更没有打不死的英雄，只有军人的荣耀！
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