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".
整部作品在精神气质上没有迂腐的匠气，而是充满热忱与新颖，挖掘出道地的岭南风情和民间生活的趣味，提炼舞狮的精髓，而且处处充满现实主义的人文关怀。剧作/人物成长更得了周星驰电影的道，舞狮是皮，喜剧是形，励志是魂，对传统文化实现了创造性转化。虽是动画，却是用电影视听完成叙事，行云流水、挥洒自如，甚至不似看动画，每个细节都很精心——小到落叶、水滴落下的弧度与速度，动作与音乐的强弱协奏，大到城市/乡村和人物情感的距离。天台独舞和最后的踩桩采青更是壮观的。角色发展在意料之中，离乡飘零和重披战衣，随上山下山的舞狮哲学所交融。文化根源随人物气节而重生，未曾“睡着”。
如若是春节档，必定会在中国票房榜前列留下一个闪亮的名字，国动之光，2021最佳影片。
12.04点映，观感很不错啊，质感绝对是国产动画第一梯队的(不清楚是为了模仿胶片质感的噪点还是广东的热浪，有的地方看上挺“杂”)是那种热血运动番的套路故事，前半部分故事有点拖，但是后面节奏起来了就引人入胜了。鲜艳的色彩和击击入心的鼓声，视听盛宴来形容也毫不为过。用《今夜无人入睡》配上脚气，绝对是今年最恶趣味最好笑的片段之一。最后就是，收尾很漂亮，一点不拖泥带水，好评。(另外就是影片格式是2D而没有强行3D大好评)
在神仙打架的缝隙中，难得听到凡人一声咆哮。愿世间有山，比此山更高。
热血励志又残忍现实，我愿意给满分。岭南小镇、乡间泥路、农村大巴…现实场景的呈现精细到可以以假乱真，舞狮也不只是个传统文化的空壳，这才是国产动画该有的样子！那些张口闭口就是“乳化”的人不是蠢就是坏。
虽然他掉进了水里，但他还是在擎天柱上留下了一些东西。
印象最深场景就是，警察和律师听着一堆人讲述自己的冤案，没钱没身份的底层人民，就真的没有说话的权利，在警察面前，连人都不是。
喜欢里面所有的力所不能和所有的奋不顾身。让我们在没有勇气改变的人生之中衷心为别人祝福鼓掌。
个人心目中年度最近国产电影🈶 至于有多佳，写在长评了，短评写不完。 在这里我只想说，所有只是因为包括眼睛在内造型原因就说这部剧乳华的人，再见！本广东人，现居佛山，一 点 也 不 觉得被冒犯。 本中国广东人拒绝被代表。 这是一个好故事、好电影，有优良的制作和扎实的故事，不要被狭隘的思想禁锢而错过了一部好电影。
粤语版极佳。狮头虽然挂在擎天柱上，但现实却还是让你跌入水中。哎，底色还是小人物的困苦，无奈和悲哀。
虽然台词和剧情还有进步空间，但是从视效风格的制作和在地文化的表达来看，称得上有国漫自己的风味了。以及…五条人的道山靓仔、椅子乐团的rolling on，还有九连真人的莫欺少年穷，首首击中我了555
难得的脱离神话、脱胎现实的国产动画，对岭南风物与气候、对广州并不光鲜的城市面貌都有着准确把握和再现，聚焦留守儿童的脆弱与进城务工人员的艰辛，结尾华彩段落艺术与技术相得益彰一气呵成并充满了少年气，这些都让本片得以好评。男主角引用李白那段让我想起了巫宁坤的《一滴泪》。
讲故事的能力非常差，台词尴尬得我把沙发皮都抠了，镜头的流畅性差（导演想表达的东西太多了，多到生怕观众不知道)，合作编剧以后就换一个吧。
人活着，不就是上当吗？动画版燃野，场景运镜音乐都蛮不错。梗太老了，剧本很陈旧。
每次遇到这种针砭时弊的电影，底下的评论都必出现“某国都能拍，某国怎样怎样”之类的言论，构成二次伤害🙃
看的解说…… 连连鸡皮疙瘩。这世界真的有苦难，看到弹幕说改信耶酥真实… 可这确是唯一的出路啊……
大银幕上已经很久看不到穷人了。这是2003年左右的故事，我才意识到，我们国家这些年的确是发展得好快，即便是建筑工人，工资还是不错；留守儿童也都长大了，有的都成了爸妈。但国家强大的背后，很大程度上正是由于牺牲了底层劳动者对于感情的诉求。当然，文本还是有一些瑕疵，但是这种题材的国漫当然应该支持。 歌好好听，让我想起了2020年的乐夏，五条人出息了啊！开片就是《道山靓仔》，中间还有椅子乐队的歌，但歌曲之间稍微有点密集，不免有煽情的嫌疑；我很喜欢彩蛋，几个简单的镜头把人瞬间拉回现实。奇迹是给努力的人，但有些现实是即便努力也打不败的。
3.5。事件意义大于电影本身，四星可以打给这个意义以及各种引申思考的。就电影而言，前半段刑讯逼供戏的尺度和篇幅大到撕心裂肺令人发指，后半段正义的伸张又过于顺利，有点让人纳闷，挑战这种固化的难度似乎太低了。
技术层面算目前国片顶级，但剧情和人设土鳖到无法直视，愿天堂没有全能美少女扶贫屌丝。
心中有鼓点，“世界万变，也不失这志气”…音乐用的很妙啊，已知歌单：《道山靓仔》五条人乐队、《纸飞机 Fly Away》廖颖轩、《世间始终你好》甄妮/罗文、《Rollin' On》椅子乐团、《今夜无人入睡》、《莫欺少年穷》九连真人、《无名的人》毛不易
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