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.
我怎么感觉这要是在中国，这老板真是无敌的好老板，这些员工才全是刁民，呵呵
Mister, I was born for it.
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。
【我通灵，却只看到自己荒唐的野心】
看的津津有味，但有两点我觉得有待商榷，第一是莫莉打了他两巴掌就走了，第二是结尾有点弱，总觉得可以处理的更好。
我不信你没玩血源。收尾太露没啥亮点，不错的氛围营造。但剧情上，读心术偏抽象不够直白，就是一种编剧咋编观众咋看的感觉。
#金帧9th#HOME4th 20220228
现在的电影都变成两个半小时起步了吗。。。前一个多小时的铺垫真的太长了。叙事节奏慢的要不是托罗营造的精致氛围，恐怕很难看下去。大魔王的办公室也太华丽了！原来和小白兔根本没多少交集┓(´∀`)┏
教科书级的节奏感十足的狗血小品。处理得自在轻盈。丝毫不削弱现实主义意义，得亏用这种表达方式。巴登表演无懈可击。
剧情给到美恐一集就可以完事，但因为有这么多大牌在，必须每个人的戏份都拉长给足再加上恶趣味美学搞氛围，齁得慌。
机关算尽太聪明，反误了卿卿性命。
出众的谈判沟通技巧，丰富的同理心，对细节的孜孜以求，果断的危机处理手段和行动力。都是一个好老板的基本素质。这是算低级黑还是高级红？
卡司诈骗哈哈哈哈哈！感觉时长减一个小时就差不多了
观感还不错，演员们的演技都在线，剧情也颇有亮点，特别是第一幕在马戏团的戏成功拍出了西方老式的神话般的诡秘感。但虽说是翻拍，这种故事放到现在显得比较过时，我更倾向于大改会比较好。马戏团和城市之间的转换稍微有些割裂，全片的节奏也很拖沓，铺垫得太详细太冗长了，完全没有必要凑两个半小时，导致直到最后半个小时节奏开始滚动起来以后才能完全入戏。
托罗拍出了一种精致的肮脏，但无趣，也许把故事交给科恩兄弟拍会精彩很多吧。
3.5＋ 对于做一部传统黑色电影翻拍，就别想着去说创作者在人物上没有深度什么屁话，正统黑色电影早已永远留在了40年到50年代末了。陀螺将自己特有的味道留下了一部怀旧片，对于黑色电影影迷来说或许不够好，那个年代的味道不是服化道美术能够替代的，后期调光更不用说了，演员表演的方式也在改变，纯粹的已经不在。如今当代黑色电影风格是一种活络的技法，它不在单一成为风格化形式表现，虽然可以在类型片做到各种融合，但人成为了最重要也是最难的一个融合。
看到一堆小孩子在评论谁是好人谁是坏人，谁善良谁邪恶....人都是五彩斑斓的灰，哪有纯黑和纯白...声讨老板我觉得没必要，不让资本家赚钱谁来解决就业问题？各取所需最重要，保持尊严最重要。哈维尔巴登演这个角色跟高射炮打蚊子没什么区别。西班牙电影走入了一个明显的套路中，希望能有突破。
这么土的译名是为了劝退观众么，听话，老实被劝退吧！！拿Bradley露点来搞票房，不好好把片子拍好看点
只想特别说鲁妮玛拉真的很美。
巴登很好，本片也可以看，但我真没什么想说的——把员工当私人奴隶？把实习生当性资源？对老婆不忠？对维权下属用尽毒手？欺骗、控制、企业德不配位？西班牙资本家真是堕落。是的，但你回来多搜点新闻多看两眼报纸，去仲裁走一圈，你会发现巴登这老板居然还算不错的。
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