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.
环境布置还不错，很有时代气息，展现出来的内容很不入肉，应该着重突出心理学方面的内容，把主角的成魔之路再刻画得深刻些。
陀螺的影像质感还是好得没话说，尽管拍的是一个略微有些「过时」的、长达150分钟的故事，依然有着令人目不转睛的魔法张力。也充分地感受到了好莱坞老电影的剧本有多么过硬，情节发展犹如以规律的步伐跨越丘壑，起伏不断却也不着痕迹。全明星阵容压底的大前提下，库珀的演出还是给我带来了惊喜，阴沉中搅杂着癫狂，再配上一张得天独厚帅脸，的确很令人着迷。
美术非但没有掩盖缺点，反而暴露出更多的问题。
这次不志怪反而选择志人的Guillermo del Toro明显不够得心应手，阵容很豪华，故事却没有什么新意，实在想不出翻拍的必要在哪？
前半段在嘉年华剧团的部分很好看，后半段略崩
铺垫的太长了，后期渐入佳境，光影的质感是真不错。
骨子里是黑色的讽刺喜剧，巴登的表演为本片增色不少。天平的暗示也很直白了。
质感很好，非常讲究，没有失望。托罗的每部电影看下来有个感觉，似乎导演对影片的解读，会比影片呈现得更丰富，恐怕是因为在剧本之外花了更多心思。
2.5/5 比较喜欢前半Carnival的部分 虽然拖拉了 但至少发挥了陀螺的风格 后半部分叙事乏味 演员之间又毫无火花😪
玉面情魔感觉拍的半旧不新的😂可能是翻拍的原因，就感觉应该是上个世纪的电影，但是硬件什么的又确实是现在的电影有股割裂感😂but冲魔王这设定这声音值3颗星😂
前半部挺有点林奇的诡调感，但影片也因此显得割裂，如果说前半段是主人公必不可少的前史，那么最后的回归又使得后半部分像是个插曲。两部分分别对应两个女性，都着了笔墨，可都太浅，本是两个极富魅力的角色却各自黯淡。括弧式的结局草率得有些敷衍，不过但也真是疯的令人唏嘘。（戒酒宣传片
为啥才6.7？虽然戏剧舞台味道过重但跟传奇色彩还是很契合的啊！拍摄不错，表演也不错。整体故事虽然你大概能悟道and有点长，但都不失为一部好电影呀。
真的像是一个豆友说的那样，“既好看又难看”。典型的故事为导演风格服务。俗套的故事，乏味的台词，就连各个大咖的表演也都那么用力又空洞（凯特的唯一高光就是“I’ll live”，麻辣literally又演了一次小白兔，托尼科莱特是比较喜欢的）。小镇的塔罗牌、野人尚且吸睛，后面变成福尔摩斯式的读心术真的就没啥意思，但凡有个心理师或者富豪一样off the book的客户，立马露馅。还有就是电影太长太长了，150分钟太难熬。
已看一半。
没看过1947年的老版。这版中的30-40年代的美国，从技术层面上，摄影、美术、服化道都很有年代感且精致。影片演员阵容强大，但是时长着实是一个硬伤，且不说看过老版和了解故事的人，即使第一次看也会觉得节奏过慢，铺垫太长。过长的铺垫和缓慢的节奏一般都是为了给结尾意想不到的惊天反转增加爆发力，可惜影片前期给出了大量的线索，即使stan在经历了一切之后变成了开始自己眼中那个最“可怜”的人，这样的结局并没给观众带来多大的意外，反而觉得是意料之中的事。不过娓娓道来的故事，沉下心来看，后劲会比较大。stan是一个有梦想的“聪明人”，在跨越阶级追逐梦想的路上聪明反被聪明误，被自己的自信和野心所蒙蔽，沦丧了道德，慢慢成为自己最了解也最可怜的人。即使是《马戏之王》巴纳姆，在当时人的眼中也不过是个“戏子”。三星半
都1202年翻拍70多年前的片子了，那不精致点还能说的过去吗？给R级加一星，搭配不搞预言，搞人物前史的一小笔冲出了更浓的精神分析味儿，男主的悲惨宿命已经不是当年的自我发现和救赎，而变成了当今时髦的自己作的活该。
前一个小时马戏团部分几乎可以打五星的程度，陀螺自己也知道这部分会精彩所以延长了吧。剧本特地丰富了几个主要角色的背景故事，但最开始男主Stan为什么要来马戏团反而没讲。美术置景是全片最大亮点，我觉得也是前一小时的更有意思。演員表演低于期待，Cate演这种大魔王角色的确是得心应手，感觉就板着一张脸演到底就完事儿了。Cooper前半段还有情绪转换，演着演着就彻底poker face了。Rooney完全花瓶女主。Toni一枝独秀，演活了一个卖艺求生的神婆。说实话心理咨询室结局反转都没什么劲道，不如Mary Steenburgen两分钟开枪来得强烈。
因果报应，天道轮回，作恶的人最终沦为了马戏团的最底层的怪人。叙事结构上，前半段马戏团生涯的篇幅有点多，不过倒是也很精彩。
4.5，没看过原作，2.30小时不觉得长，意犹未尽。
这是一部很任性的影片
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