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".
由于对这部电影的过于期待，明知删减版也还是买了票，不过要在大成都找一家放粤语版的影城真是不容易。
其实煽情不是问题，问题是这电影没什么质感，整体都是走一种脱离现实的情绪氛围在推动剧情，这种拍法着实复古
吴君如演起正戏来有模有样的呢，普通话配音版太垃圾…全程朗诵mm
《神奇小子》亦著眼、凸顯屋村籠民的小心思，平淡之中見真情。
苏妈妈是很伟大，但是为了有人照顾苏桦伟就生个小孩，帮他找个女朋友这样的让人很不适
我不喜欢一直渲染感动气氛的电影，但香港确实有不少踏踏实实的好演员。
值得一提的是，这些特殊人群在影片中往往都是子女的角色，无论是《孔雀》中的“胖子”、《海洋天堂》中的王大福、《左耳》中的“小耳朵”、《一念无明》中的阿东、《了不起的老爸》中的肖尔东、《妈妈的神奇小子》中的苏桦伟……这也导致国产电影中的亲情元素在与其他类型融合的同时，不断将触角伸到了特殊人群，扩展了自身人文关怀的范畴。
吴君如同仔既对手戏差唔多场场都泪目，出戏主要目的应该都系励志吧，黑暗部分都系浅尝辄止。觉得可惜了，呢部戏宣传得好d，食住奥运个势可能票房可以好些少
不僅形神恍如一人，
一年半后再回电影院，就为了神奇小子，果真没令我失望
“一刹那的光辉不代表永恒。”参加了4次残奥会、获得了6块奥运金牌的苏桦伟，他被宣判天生残疾那天起，就被人嘲笑，遭人唾弃，他痛苦过、绝望过，幸好他从未放弃，“我起步慢，就是要从后面追上去”。跑步比赛是体力竞赛，更是心理竞赛，“用力哭不如用力跑”，母亲的安慰一次次帮他打开了心结，战胜了心魔。电影再现了残障运动员苏桦伟的拼搏，实则描述了弱小个体在时代洪流中的顽强斗争。不完整的他们都在用生命冲刺，健康的我们又有什么理由退缩？输不可怕，可怕的是你失去了重头再战的毅力。
怀念之前在广州的时候，电影院有粤语版可以看
我陪你一起跑
是有观看性的，虽然剧情编排上有一点抓马。但聚焦残奥运动员的角度是不错的，辉煌的背后是一家人的辛酸，取得成绩也依然得不到公平对待，热爱纵然感动也逃不开生计的困窘。运动员都是可敬的，可与片子呼应的现实是今年残奥会无人问津的现状。喊了这么多年却好像没改变什么，有种哑然的苦涩。
真实故事改编，挺感人的，吴君如演的真好，母爱很伟大，残疾人运动员太不容易了
65分/挺不错的，残疾运动员的困境讲的有深度，妈妈说你天生残疾没人会怪你，但别人责怪我对你太狠心。这段自我剖析虽然点到为止，但其实含义深刻。缺点就是妈妈有时候会喊口号式的的撒鸡汤。
太煽情，完全沒有建立任何東西的情況下就不停地煽情。over了。
比起摔爸洛奇这种运动片，这片更多地是延续了香港近几年关乎与写底层与人的关系之间的讨论。像是沦落人，一念无明这样的。关于残疾人自己的身份认同，家庭关系的段落，运动员的处境，以及中港关系的一些隐喻。
看到开头就能预料到走向的电影，但是依然挺让人感动，现实是虽然依旧艰难，但像苏桦伟这样有梦想也有天赋的却都已经是残障人士中很幸运的人了。
只要吴君如做妈妈。我都觉得她的儿子是麦兜。
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