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.
科恩妻子劝科恩兄弟决裂，对照麦克白的悲剧。
形式的盛宴，科恩运用表现主义的方式，讲述麦克白这段耳熟能详的故事。这种极度外化的影像，在展现人物内在状态的同时，也非常符合舞台式的叙事呈现。其实对于西方导演来翻拍这种经典戏剧，在剧作上无法创新，值得从形式切入。导演选用的美学形式，将文本之下所讲述关于人类欲望的主题最大程度的呈现。但介于观众早已得知的内容对戏剧性的削弱，惊悚就只得过程而非结果。纵使演员与导演，以及影片的美学完美结合，融为一体，足够精美，但确实也缺乏趣味，不够好看。
與其吃力不討好地仿古，拍成科恩兄弟擅長的黑色喜劇不是更有意思嗎？
土掉牙的剧情 不过摄影 光影 布景确实是打到你服 整体风格相当冷峻 加上黑白画幅让我想起1948年的王子复仇记/以及演员的台词功底相当扎实 特别是弗兰西斯/对白的也借莎翁之力 相当“醇厚” 不过这也导致长时间聚焦在字幕上而忽略了演员的演绎/是稍微有点哲学味道在里面的：结果对行为产生影响 而行为又导致了结果 我们的欲望 我们的野心所产生的结果或后果到底是不是“命运叫我们这么做”的 难怪米兰昆德拉说历史就是一个玩笑
当个有声书听听还凑合，非常厌恶大量使用黑人演员的政治正确，强行将角色赋予黑人破坏了观影乐趣。
极简场景和摄人光影是本片独特气质的最大贡献者，其余部分没什么亮点。空镜最震撼
舞台感太强，削弱了电影的魅力。演员说着莎士比亚台词，却没有一丝古典的韵味，人物身体语言、动作语言、房屋建筑均让人出戏，整个就是一现代舞台剧。麦克白的贪欲动机生硬单薄，所以他的毁灭也难以引起共鸣。
ps.科恩嫂什么都好，就是走路姿势注意一下，自身走路方式太有标志性了
风格有点过于混搭了，又还是somehow make sense
肃杀凛冽的氛围感，极简主义的舞台布置，科恩四比三画幅的颠覆性尝试被过亮的画面大煞风景，本身依赖剧本的他失去了原创力的黑色幽默，又几乎照本宣科地改编剧本，注定原本莎翁独到的戏剧性变得寡淡无味也拖沓无力，闭上双眼仿佛多台复读机同频共振或磁带里毫无感情的课文朗诵。
基本看不出科恩兄弟的影子，看完之后发现只有乔尔的署名。摄影上佳（虽然有几个地方让我觉得在模仿黑泽明），布景有特色，其余无甚新意。选角和表演令人失望，影帝影后发挥平平，Washington发怒的样子让我想起街头见过的磕嗨的黑人老头，Macduff的演员简直是灾难。电影本身质量其实还行，但我非常失望。
《麦克白的悲剧》改编自莎士比亚的经典悲剧，讲述了一位弑君者/麦克白深受权欲、幻念与恐惧折磨的故事。
试图以《爱德华二世》的方式拍出一部严肃史诗，但除了摄影之外，其余部分一板一眼，改编更是缺乏灵气，令观众败兴。将《麦克白》影视化的作品有很多，有一座大山无法被跳过，那就是黑泽明的《蜘蛛巢城》，众多影视化《麦克白》在改编与本土化的水准上无出其右者。对于如此举世闻名的著作，去理解它，接纳它，融化它。不要一味瞻仰它。无法将它化成自己的东西，如何能游刃有余地将他人的故事创造出新的生命力呢？看看黑泽明对于人物性格与形象的设置，障眼法式精准的调度，他的改编为何成功不言而喻。本片中“雾”是一项很关键的意象，运用得十分巧妙，这一点倒是与《蜘蛛巢城》颇为相像，或许亦是受到了黑泽明的启发。遥想之前，科恩兄弟拍摄《逃狱三王》，从《奥德赛》中汲取养分，充分发挥自身特色，充满灵气，而今却不见。
绝佳的美术和氛围营造使本片充满了电影感，但故事和人物刻画都不足，演员表演上乘。
科恩重演莎翁，在多版本的《麦克白》改编中，能否排得到前列恐怕还是打个问号。但是影片在风格化和形式感上确实做得十分出彩，精美的黑白影调干净、简洁、漂亮，渐进地模糊了戏剧与电影的界限，视觉享受直接拉满。
科恩兄弟分道扬镳的首次创作?少了编剧的科恩套了莎翁的核。剧情就摆在那，多数人看的是能拍成啥样。不得不说，电影营造的美学是科恩兄弟一贯的风格。延续了莎翁中繁复的对白而不显生硬，对特定场景进行了美学构建，灯光，氛围，视觉冲击是最大的亮点。采用黑白小荧幕是对经典的致敬，毕竟现代五彩的装束无法带来美学的提升，反而减分。但是呢，剧情羸弱是软肋。且和戏剧的ETA（镜头下的戏剧）差不多。对比最近看的俄狄浦斯王，皆是可戏剧的悲剧。过去时代的人，宿命仿佛有特别的吸引力，无法抵抗，越是抵抗越是无法逃脱。这就是宿命。是国学里的天道。无法描绘而又时刻面对。在延伸一个话题，复仇似乎是人类大部分人的使命，是每个人怜悯之心的希冀。只有看到血债血偿，观者才得以解脱。我们平庸的生活时刻被带入角色里寻求心的精神安慰。
真就舞台剧，除了一些删改基本上都照搬原著，再复习了一遍属于是（看完好想搞麦克白的舞台剧（感觉力度不够啊，不够阴沉，不够邪，也不够癫，基本上都是飘飘软软的感觉。麦克白最后的独白呈现也太萎了，战前的演出倒是很不错。摄影和剧本感觉挺割裂，摄影虽然挺好，但是感觉和剧本各走各
不知道这是看的第几个版本的Macbeth了，不是最好的，也不是最差的，但算的上three witches的舞美、造型和表现手法能让我记住的版本了，lady macbeth略失望，Duncan 差点味，其余过得去。Joel Coen辛苦了~
影像风格上极力靠近上世纪电影的质感，摄影构图、布景有点布列松极简主义的味道，两位老戏骨台词功力无可挑剔，算是众多改编版本中比较出彩的一部。
每一位功成名就的大明星都想要一个证明自己有台词天赋的机会
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