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.
说实话又老套又无聊，特别各种各样的情感升华尬死了转变也很突然，但是几个笑点又确实让人吐了吐气，如果是凯奇老粉可能会感触多一些吧。。。
凯奇的心酸啊，这么努力有天赋的人，居然被时代抛弃了！！！
太cliché，太外向，太完滿。在轉移到韓語世界的過程中，是枝裕和的作者性也被抹掉了一大半。我還是更喜歡看他講內向的故事，情緒被收成一輪殘月。現在的滿月美則美矣，但也就到此為止了。
导演过分温柔了，竟然连碰上的人贩子都是有苦衷的好人，现实生活没有那么甜。影片一如既往有着导演过往作品中的温馨时刻，只是这一次的温馨背后，却没有足以打动人的现实的不堪、残酷。
两个男主的化学反应很奇妙啊…… 导演是不是把自己投射到佩德罗帕斯卡身上了
停留在车窗上的花儿 小心翼翼能捏住 甩甩手也能把它撵走 但孩子却是一辈子的牵挂。素英在【生下来送出去】还是【存在就毁掉】哪个罪恶感更重的伦理线徘徊 得不出答案 东洙被问到【更远是哪里】也同样答不上来 也许一起洗车时开个窗大家都湿透了是快乐 窝在小镜头前合照一张留念是快乐 也许游乐场狂欢一下小游戏是快乐——也许只是大家凑在一起说说话一起笑笑就是快乐 本就这么简单不是吗？所以呀 摩天轮上用手挡在你面前 不是想给你打马赛克 因为你给了我太多可以原谅妈妈的理由 我只是简单的不想看到你哭 只愿 全天下的人 都能因为出生而得到感谢。（PS裴斗娜的侧脸好好看。IU也意外演得不错！）
人终其一生都难活的通透，可我们依旧要在这条路上不断成长
抛去迷影元素和致敬梗，其实就是一个演员执行特工任务的老套故事，不过如果换成别人演可能就没有这个效果了。凯奇叔终于还完债，可得好好拍电影了，这部电影属于自嘲了一下那段当“烂片之王”的日子
戏中戏中戏，我演我自己。稍微有点乱但应该比凯奇近年大部分电影好多了。加半星情怀分啦。
牛了个大B的凯奇自嘲+凯奇粉最好时光的狂欢
两个男主的化学反应很奇妙啊…… 导演是不是把自己投射到佩德罗帕斯卡身上了
2.5 作为凯奇粉还是能get到笑点，可是，真的整不出一点新活了吗？
故事的冲突平淡了许多，像是疲惫的是枝裕和随口说出来的陈词滥调。
无人知晓-小偷家族-掮客，是枝裕和的“生而不养”宇宙画上了圆满的句号。这种日式温情放在日影里毫无违和感，放在韩影里实在是水土不服。（李珠英是我见过短发最好看的韩国女演员了）【远鉴】
@GoldenScene 是枝裕和真的不擅长处理高度戏剧化的剧本和如此密集的戏剧冲突，非常聒噪…
是枝裕和失手了，剧本太差，硬造温情，引人不适。
是枝裕和经常有过分真善美的倾向，不过感觉这更多还是他人格的体现
不知道外國人啥感想，反正本看日劇的只想把坂元裕二的woman拍到失智臉上，出身不幸還單身帶娃只會最後帶到絕症，後續都給你想好了，就說別生了！！！！PS結局令我感到找了一群韓國人拍晨間劇
是枝裕和式的日式風情放在韓國背景下，甚至不如《真相》的法國背景更融洽，他一貫的細膩失了尺寸，反而讓人產生了對角色的疏離感，我喜歡是枝裕和，是洗車被水淋時全員笑顏的溫情，而不是“謝謝你出生”的矯情。
大恶中的微善，让人性走在钢索上，不得不佩服是枝裕和的开发能力，是他信手拈来的题材和故事。不较真的话，从创作角度是极高的得分，群戏实在太难写了。。。
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