UCLA college student Jonathan Moore (Anthony Edwards) is playing a game called "Gotcha" (popular on mid-1980s college campuses as "Assassin" or "Tag"), wherein the players are all assigned a mock "hit" on another player by use of a harmless paintball gun. Moore and his apartment roommate Manolo go on a vacation to Paris, France. After touring some of Paris, in a cafe Moore meets Sasha Banicek (Linda Fiorentino), a Czechoslovakian girl. Eventually, Jonathan has intercourse with Sasha, losing his virginity.
Jonathan decides to leave Manolo (who is heading to Spain) and go with Sasha to West Berlin to spend more time with her. Jonathan believes that he is in love with Sasha. There, Jonathan and Sasha continue to have sex and even go to an Oktoberfest beer gathering. One night, Sasha tells Jonathan that she has to go to East Berlin to pick up a package. One night after arriving in East Berlin, Sasha leaves their hotel room and walks to dark street corner. There, Sasha meets a German man who tells her the location of the pickup of her package. Meanwhile, Sasha was being monitored by a Soviet agent, who was sitting in a car at a distance. During the day, Sasha tells Jonathan that if she gives him a certain message, it means that he has to leave East Berlin immediately. At a cafe, Sasha gives Jonathan a package and says that a strudel is inside. A little later, Sasha tells Jonathan to meet her at the butcher shop near their hotel. All of a sudden, a Soviet agent begins to chase after Sasha. Sasha decides to use Jonathan (who is holding her package) to unknowingly get the package over to West Berlin. Meanwhile, Sasha is taken by the Soviet agent and East German secret police.
Jonathan goes to Checkpoint Charlie to cross the heavily fortified border into West Berlin. At the East German customs search, Jonathan is stripped of his clothes and given a cavity search. Meanwhile, Sasha is stripped and searched for possible espionage evidence. Vlad arrives at the border crossing to search for Jonathan, however Jonathan passes the border safely before he can be captured. Once in West Berlin, Jonathan feels liberated by the Westernized society. In the hotel, Jonathan receives a message from Sasha to meet him at a specified location. Jonathan finds out that his hotel room was broken into and robbed of his traveler's checks. Soviet agents eventually find Jonathan in West Berlin and chase him throughout a public park. Jonathan jumps into a water canal and manages to escape from the Soviets and stumbles upon a German rock group headed for Hamburg, who offer him a ride to the airport.
The rock group successfully get Jonathan to the airport (using full-face makeup to sneak him past a checkpoint) and Jonathan finally arrives in Los Angeles Tom Bradley International Airport and to his apartment. Soon, Vlad and a band of Soviet agents arrive too in Los Angeles. Once home, Jonathan stumbles upon a film canister, which was planted by Sasha. Jonathan visits his parents and tells them what happened in Germany but they cannot believe a word of it and think Jonathan is on drugs. Jonathan decides to call the FBI then the Central Intelligence Agency for help. Jonathan returns to find his apartment broken into and looted.
The CIA officer tells Jonathan to give them the photo film canister. At the Los Angeles headquarters of the CIA, Jonathan spots Sasha who looks like she was working there. Jonathan eventually meets up with Sasha. Sasha admits that she is Cheryl Brewster, a CIA agent, originally from Pittsburgh. Out of nowhere, Vlad and his gang begin to chase Jonathan and Cheryl on the UCLA campus. Jonathan eliminates all the Soviets with a tranquilizer gun which he gets from the campus veterinary sciences building. The Soviets are arrested, the CIA agents thank Jonathan for his (indirect) help in obtaining the film, and Sasha tells him she wants to continue their relationship.
After they part, Jonathan talks to a pretty student who rebuffs him coldly. As she walks away, he aims the tranquilizer pistol and shoots her in the rear.
各种讽刺看得挺开心比如stupid tiktok challenges 这星光闪闪的lineup光写完大家的名字都要花好长时间 茶就无足轻重的凑热闹角色 Cate身材好好！对比起来老李被称什么最性感科学家可见鬼去吧他在这里看着的确像我和我的家乡里范伟的扮相 如果知道什么时候会死 在死之前会做什么呢？和亲朋好友聚在一起最后的晚餐其实挺不错
很浮夸的政治讽刺喜剧，所以千万不要较真，当作寓言故事来看，故事性还是不错的。如果评价电影的科学性，你就给负分也不为过。
把彗星想象成疫情，唉，其实现实比电影还令人失望。
又一部“COVID-Inspired”的电影，远胜过去年的“Death to 2020”，对人类的思考、合作能力的极大嘲讽，也对美国政治、撕裂的美国的社会极尽嘲讽之能事，人们大概可以从这样一部荒诞、闹剧但又饱含批判意识的作品里get a glimpse into a possible future：两年的大流行提供了太多素材，在气候问题面前，全球合作因各国无法弥合的分歧举步维艰......很难否认该片不是给人类的inevitable doom做了一个虽然简化但不乏预言性的描绘。梗太多（尤其是川普梗），几乎从头笑到尾，但看到片中最后那一幅幅绝望、动乱、宗教仪式、爱、美丽的地球生灵、森林、海洋.......画面的快速更迭，不禁泪流。
比起社会治理的无效性，我更感兴趣的是两位专业人士如何被体制改变、腐蚀或边缘化
离开美国太久，就觉得这种讽刺没啥意思了。因为我们天天在电视里就直接开骂了，就觉得很不过瘾，你就给我看这个？所以反过来，在美国待久了的人看我们这里的东西也会觉得，你就给我看这个？
前半段过于上头，爽+好笑+讽刺+恶搞的高能融合，本就是嬉笑怒骂，永远不要严肃解读。
很多问题都比气候变化要致命的多，创作思路没有把重点放在它上面是明智的。
好像瑞克和莫蒂真人版的尝试，灾难片+娱乐至死的喜剧氛围。其实用动画表现真的会更有表现力，节奏还能变得更快些，这个片长属实有点拖沓了。
为啥这个电影里的人叫别人严肃一点，自己却一点啊不严肃
政客、资本家、媒体、民众……自私、贪婪、愚蠢、盲目……毁灭吧，赶紧的。
我觉得讽刺的非常到位也充满乐趣，觉得不知所云的人可能还是不了解美国的政客和富商们，并且很多人对电影评价都是觉得堆砌和乱套，也应征了电影讽刺的内容，整日喊着要自由民主，其实只是被资本利用的工具，普通人一点儿都不重要，顶层阶级根本不在乎生命，只在乎能和其他阶层拉开多大差距。现在的美国政客都是被资本推出来的傻缺，想尽一切办法压榨他人为自己谋利，不在乎环境、资源，反正出了事他们有办法逃脱。这片子能播出来真牛逼，估计那群人第一时间就买人来带节奏骂影片了。BTW，李子的脑袋不能继续宽下去了！
无语又无聊，没觉得有什么批判力，错误的参照系和幻觉预设，一个字“滚”😡
就非常的非现实下的现实，social media化和全民媒体时代下，对于严肃事件的无害化宣传和化解。政客只衡量自己的利益并不会考虑事实和全民的危机。挺有意思的，最后找到的星球大概是被撞击后原始化的地球…只是那些大资本家和政客如何在这种环境中生存下去
如发表的内容多次被移除将导致账号状态异常，异常账号的评论将不再出现在公共区域。
被letterboxd上整页整页的高亮差评吓到。但均分3.2，其实还好，只是似乎不喜欢的人集体声音比较大。看了下批评意见主要是过于smug，condescending，并不能真正改变任何人的看法。这个也许是的，但电影这个东西就没有那么重要，意识形态批评当然可以做，评论家就靠这个吃饭呢，但把电影的所有讨论都拉升到activism层面来争论不休我感觉也有问题的。要批评的话当然是影片自省不够，结尾特别pat on the back地说“我们尽力做了一切了吧？”寻求认可，但更难去思考的确实是，left在整个过程中哪里没能做好导致了这个局面。这个反思是缺席的。但again，仅仅拍出有反思己方的电影（为所应为，悲惨世界，开战，破败工厂）也仍然不会改变世界，电影没那么重要。以及网飞的7500万巨资与明星云集不能代表作者就没有self aware影片内外的meta互文吧？恐怕恰恰相反吧
3.5. Didn't quite get the overwhelming hate this film got. The satire here is not particularly intelligent nor incisive, but that seems fitting when reality is more mundanely grotesque than fiction: it's almost like the real world does not deserve to be treated in a more aesthetically profound manner. The sense of helpless anger and disbelief at the state of the world is quite genuine, and there are emotional moments that work quite well. It's a typically white and star-studded mainstream film, and that's okay.
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看得这部电影送走2021。这也有点太应景了吧......不过这个尺度......差距啊
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