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".
三王合体，一场闹剧。前段尚可，从干细胞实验开始持续崩坏，第一次见人拿冷凝回流管还是倒置的，白瞎了王珞丹的表演。
本杰明巴顿的外壳，阿甘正传的故事线索，综合观影效果佳，表达欲过多使得艺术价值减半
电影的前半部分像极了《阿甘正传》，傻傻的聪明儿子、坚持的母亲和一个受尽折磨的青梅竹马……看到做手术后才发现，故事讲述的是《本杰明·巴顿奇事》的不老神奇故事，所不同的是本杰明巴顿是逆生长回到婴儿状态，而《不老传奇》更多的是停留在医学水平范围内的容貌不老。故事非常美，有历史背景，有感情故事，有科学奋斗，有青梅竹马，也有纸醉金迷，非常丰富的像余华的《兄弟》。
还是那个熟悉的王朔配方，永远回不去的久远时光，至死都想抓住，看完像经历了整场人生...
本来因为这个片名我不抱有什么期待，但是因为王传君+王珞丹决定看看，开头整体节奏都可以，当我以为这是个起错名字的年代剧的时候，当与王珞丹重逢我以为这是个悲情的爱情剧，两个相爱的人因为王珞丹的自卑和成长环境没能在一起，随着郭小鲁的出国这个故事就开始变得魔幻了，老学姐教授不是已经在自己身上成功试验了吗，为什么他俩就好像从零开始一样，从丁萌萌去世、郭小鲁去非洲真的是离了大谱，他去非洲干嘛？？？最后苏DY郭萌我真的无fa可讲，两个多小时真的又臭又长，因为跟我妈看还不能倍速，我可太难受了，太浪费时间了，相比之下，王仁君的演技也让我有点失望，本来开头还挺有希望，没想到后面这么崩…
这是个啥？什么都想讲 什么都没有讲清楚 莫名其妙
7.5
吴彦姝演技完全不是盖的，一分钟的戏也可以演得让你痛哭流涕。王珞丹演得也不错，相比之下，作为大男主的王传君演得倒是很糟糕，仿佛演啥电影都一个演法。 剪辑很多地方详略不当，可以理解主题的想法，但是却没能更好地表达出来，前面显得很冗长，后面显得很急促。
还是有太多塑料道具感，还是有太多垃圾雷同抒情转场情节(尤其是到实验室取受精卵)
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前半段给人感觉很像忧郁版的阿甘正传，特别是女主的设定，后面吧，说实话也不知道具体想要表达讲了个啥，讲了很多，科学，生死，感悟，社会，无奈，时代，变迁，都说了又好像都没有说
男女主都爱的太克制，女主克制是因为觉得自己不那么干净，配不上男主吧。她一直在等男主主动，甚至给了很多机会：约会，给他房间钥匙，给他酒店号码…男主一直没有说出那句：这些年我一直爱着你…他爱女主吗？是的，但爱的是那个记忆里的她，那个清纯美好善良的少女。他是因为怯懦不敢表白，还是他内心压根没法接受不再清纯的爱人，所以选择了不说？谁也不知道。最美好的爱情是在记忆力，永远封存。这才是不老奇事。
感觉前后两个故事，从去捷克开始就不一样故事，前面还觉得挺不错的，结果后面突然变得奇幻了……本来以为是演两个人分别成家立室各自面对生活难事，面对亲友死亡的思考，然后结果突然男主又扯上干细胞研究不老之谜。我以为是在教授之死后，让他们对生死看开了，但是突然女二就陷入了疯魔状态？干细胞研究得好好的，突然又去中东感悟生死？后面开始有点赶场式拍摄，仿佛割裂开来的故事线……不过这个电影的概念，还是蛮有意思，只是不拍得那么复杂，化繁为简更好了。
2021.12.12 旁白多到都能凑出一部广播剧了，你说我是看电影呢，还是听电影呢？反正我是真的讨厌王朔。
死生寂灭，涅槃轮回，我们何苦难为这个世界呢？你只活在……
在剧情里的干细胞研究中，＂永恒＂仿佛已经一步之遥了，但终究--丁老会死，萌萌会死，就像爸爸妈妈死去一样，最后，心头永远的白月光苏也忘了自己。
本杰明巴顿奇事+阿甘正传？
本来以为是环形时空叙事，结果就只是讲完了这一生而已，全程用诚意讲述遇到的那些人那些事，因为是mv式的快剪加解说，得以让叙事时间可以尽量拉长，虽然到最后的感动，不过是时空堆积后累加生离死别的伤感，但终究还是有一瞬间被打动了。
王珞丹演得好，好演员。
割裂严重，用爱情故事包装的干细胞抗衰老广告。
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