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".
点太多太散，家庭矛盾到最后弃之不顾，有些草率。
影片除了辛柏青再没有明星了，但五个男生演的都挺好，各有特色，局部情节也不错，但结合起来总觉得少点什么，每个部分都不尽兴。
3.5，比想象中好很多，虽然男主比不上妻夫木聪，五个主角里也没有玉木宏那种能让人心动的……舍弃日式中二，在中国高中语境下很好的落了地。最不喜欢的部分是，原版练花游，带有打破刻板印象和性别偏见的含义在，而中国版里既没有这点，在“反娘炮”文化的加持下还强调了，男子练花游要突出“阳刚”……
最后20多人的男子花样游泳居然很像模像样，还融入了一丢丢locking和popping
简简单单的青春片，拍成这样就很好。有笑有泪，有梦想可追！
三星半。本土完成度大于预期，热血青春感来自扎实的投入准备；档期决策者需要向创作团队扑街道歉。
多亏都是新面孔出演的，心疼每一个普通又想赢的孩子，也心疼冬天泡泳池的新演员。
没有沦落为青春多角恋的俗套 故事介于奇怪和合理中间 给你灌一碗不怎么扭捏的青春热血鸡汤
我人生80%被认可都是源自网络，我才意识到，有些事我做的还不错，意识到我这个人也还不错。如果只是生活中的反馈，我可能早都普通的不能再普通了，虽然现在依然普通，但那些正反馈让我会觉得自己有闪光。
不过有时候人不能什么都落不着，还是该放松的时候就好好放松。
主演辛云来本身相貌有些缺点，气质也比较朴拙，演一个设定相貌平平的中等生很说得过去。饰演王子的吴俊霆剃了光头后的一个水下镜头，倒确实俊得人眼前一亮。
4.5 今年看过最可爱的片子，背景是中国的，丧逼青春却是属于日本的，很难得看到不励志的中国青春电影，夏天的青春总是让人怀念，非常出色的改编。
我打五星完全是因为替自己的中学时代感到“不爽”与“爽”极了，比燃野好出不少档次。因为你们也知道真正的中国中学里不会发生这种热血故事的，因自媒体流量突然五个孩子就被赋予做梦的权利了，教练有了队友也有了，让人觉得不愧是追名逐利的世界啊。逻辑不连贯没关系但是对于这种最后终于展示自己的情节我从来不吝啬自己的饱含热泪。毕竟，男生受歧视的体育项目不多，但看到他们成为弱势群体是中国青春片里后无来者的了，共情满分。五个男主角的表演都很精彩，看得出也是真的练得辛苦。但是看台上张伟的爸爸你可真是，你儿子表现精彩了他就是你儿子了你就骄傲了，如果他表现不好你是不是就不为他骄傲了？
每一个中国少年，都有一双呆萌驯良的死鱼眼，随时翻世界一个白眼
三星半，难得不做作的青春片。前半段比较出彩，后劲差点。（那个，有没有那种，呃，游泳队队长x高飞的，那种东西啊……）
社团组织观影。我愿称之为年度黑马商业片，包袱不断，难得有立意且不尬的喜剧片。五个少年，虽然只刻画了三个，高飞还可以再深挖一挖。这才是飞扬的青春啊。构图和布景真的好棒，剧本写得真好。包括偷偷联系后翻、剃头时，表现得真不错。还有跟哪吒的联动，笑疯了！
全片最佳，“蝈蝈妈” “是蛐蛐” 哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈
得知要翻拍《五个扑水的少年》，我本来是抱着比较不看好的态度观望，没想到电影上映后豆瓣评分逐渐上涨，反倒提升了我的兴趣。日本版2014年看的，如今已有些淡忘了，尽管如此，观看中国版还是让我感觉本土化处理改动太多了，虽然存在蛮多不满之处（编造过多的矛盾冲突反而显得刻意），但挺有青春气息（末尾热血的男子花样游泳表演看得我有些感动，不过集体站在评审们面前微笑大叫然后“群魔乱舞”的段落却有些嫌弃），整体还算是可以。★★★☆ → 看完后再接再厉时隔多年重温了日版，增加了对原版的好感，也增加了对翻拍版的不满：原版组建男子花样游泳队的起因更有趣；水族馆段落，原版安排在暑假阶段比较合情合理，翻拍版放置在上学期间反而令我产生质疑；原版的同性情节被舍弃掉了；最后的表演也是原版拍得让我感觉更欢乐更有意思更满意更喜欢；……
就是这样的鲜肉满溢不被定义的少年气逆袭被无新鲜感剧情和无记忆点表演公式化到了只有哪吒和池舞两幕热血。
水泳部已經有了，空手道部還會遠嗎？（意味深）
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