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.
3.5 马克叔和丰叔（Yutaka Mizutani）有同一种异父异母双生儿般的优雅气质。对舞台感过重的电影总谈不上过分喜爱。
单一场景，话剧电影，依靠对话和巧合层层递进，剧本扎实，酣畅淋漓。Richie有角度像马修古迪， Francis有角度像迈克尔皮特，片尾出字幕，名字里带有O的停留时间稍微久一点，然而最后三秒出现FOCUS时，O却是模糊的
3.5/5 密闭空间话剧电影，叙事和多重反转完全依靠台词，有点太话剧而削弱了悬疑的紧张感。如果剧本能再打磨，精简一下台词的话会更符合电影的节奏。MR的演技撑起了整部片。
倒更像是师傅的传记片？影帝完全被大泉洋压过一头 觉得这种记录那些逝去的艺术的故事都格外动人 像是师父 百鸟朝凤 默片解说员之类的 人与人之间的羁绊赋予了艺术额外的价值
让男主的气定神闲显得非常悬浮
葬礼上那个笑话颇有坟头蹦迪的功效，那是北野武骨子里最糙的温柔。
这场对人性的纪念是近年来悬疑片第一次表达出一股精致的绅士风度。而这表达尊严的方式，在喊出从头开始时候完成。他们只是用尊严的方式表达着对一位有尊严的人的敬意。
精巧的三一律剧本，马克·里朗斯稳稳压阵。几次反转蛮有意思的，也让戏剧张力在狭小的环境里发挥到了纯熟功效，结尾的那一段反派爬起来，以及马克叔点火，都有点煞风景，不过不妨碍整体的“一出好戏”。看下来之后惊觉，这应该是短片的体量撑成了长片吧。
“我们来到这里白手起家，然后只要我们变得足够强大，你们这些狗东西就出现了。”这不比《利刃出鞘》香多了~A long night…又是舞台剧式的斗室处境小品，靠对话推动情节发展，意外性和完成度都让人满意，最后半小时持续高能，可以说这就是一部影像推理小说。英国绅士再次大放异彩。
喜剧师徒的故事很感人，他们之间的爱超越了一切。
感觉没有那么的好，剧情张力不够，全程无高潮，本以为在他自曝自己是间谍会有爆发点，结果就真的像是开个玩笑……结束了这件事情
Cool……失败了怎么办？坐在你的桌前，一切重新开始。
古典悬疑话剧，工整严谨，利用套层信息差，让观众结尾小高潮，核心叙事技巧也隐隐有些剧透就四个字：扮猪吃虎
就在我以为是父女温情故事的时候，又翻了一下，可以加一颗星。
小成本电影 出场角色不多颇有舞台感 黑帮情仇 多方角力都在小空间里完成 完成度还挺高。
精巧的三一律剧本，马克·里朗斯稳稳压阵。几次反转蛮有意思的，也让戏剧张力在狭小的环境里发挥到了纯熟功效，结尾的那一段反派爬起来，以及马克叔点火，都有点煞风景，不过不妨碍整体的“一出好戏”。看下来之后惊觉，这应该是短片的体量撑成了长片吧。
而真正的完美是不可能的。
“不要讨好观众，你要教他们欣赏。”
Rylance演得太好了，令人安心的那种好。舞台剧感像在对标Hangmen，加上又有Flynn乱入，我甚至暂停瞅了一眼编剧里有没有McDonagh……（1:11:45画面右下晃过”鬼手“……
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