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.
甜蜜的黑白光影，极简的舞台剧布景，单朝着视觉风格化而来不会失望。
属于那种好，但不好看的电影。单枪匹马的科恩“兄弟”，功力竟然也成倍减半了。最深刻的感受就是：不像电影，像舞台剧；无论是布景服装，还是演员的台词，都有很浓烈的舞台感，甚至有好几个瞬间，我都误以为自己在看戏剧，而不是电影。构图大赞，摄影大赞，演技大赞，丹泽尔今年虽仍注定陪跑，但是作为演员的他，实力和魅力都是毋庸置疑的，很期待继续在颁奖礼看到这个毫无感情的鼓掌机器(*¯︶¯*)
光影运用得真好，但除此之外实在没看出啥翻拍的必要
我就是为了摄影才看它的，黑白的层次真丰富啊。故事也没有太大的改动。
属于颁奖季特供了，有点<第七封印>的影子，不过也就看表演、视听和导演风格，故事真的没什么意思了。
略失望吧，预告骗了属于是……影像上有一些惊艳时刻，声音设计也有点意思，但总体比较乏善可陈，观看过程一度感到无聊，究其原因可能是它在文本和形式上都无甚新意，风格化就只是为了风格化而存在，遑论像《灯塔》那样做到二者的自洽和互相支持。像有的评论说的，在《蜘蛛巢城》之后，再做这种改编可能已无必要了。B
哈利波特的表哥 或 成最大赢家。摄影，画面是很赞的，但这种舞台剧方式的电影和几乎照搬莎士比亚的台词，我有点欣赏来不来，可能是我太粗浅了。。
不喜欢这样的科恩，以前的作者性荡然无存，摄影上的极度写意也无法掩盖导演创作能力枯竭的事实。反而是两位演员最出彩，只可惜他们奥斯卡级别的表演被这样一个平庸的剧本给生生的浪费了。 注：赶快让两个科恩合体吧，这部实在是没劲。
麦克白和夫人的第一次对话太精彩了！
绝妙的视觉风格，感觉把黑白光影运用到了极致，呈现的效果超越了一般意义上的复古。但同时也几乎放弃了对原作的任何解读，感觉就像是用影像的形式看了一版set design极其出色但文本保守演绎也没有态度的话剧。
高级的复古，舞台感十足，却不那么吸引人..
（4.4/10）乔尔·科恩的《麦克白的悲剧》是对莎士比亚戏剧一次极具风格化的影像呈现，仅此而已。
8.4分 乔尔科恩单挑大梁，改编了一部如此特色鲜明的莎士比亚，竟也没有让我失望。台词并不如想象中难懂，很多时候未必需得听出每一句的意蕴，只看出表层了解大意便足以投入故事感受其魅力了。剧作五星，当然这是莎士比亚的功劳。而在这诸多的人物甚至都没有交代什么背景的前提下，竟毫不纷乱，科恩的功力真是了得。看得出来他绝对是下足了功夫，一如自己的风格强调着宿命与人性，极简主义和黑白风格用得和谐，庄重肃穆，气势恢宏。几场室内戏极具表现力，留白恰到好处，光影变换让人如醉如痴。算是将一场舞台剧完美复刻到大荧幕，尽管没有太大创意。
用电影的形式拍舞台剧的最大问题就是台词独白，这样脱离生活化的话剧独白一旦在荧幕上用电影的语调念出来既无法给观众带入感又失去了原本的戏剧张力，一星给摄影
无继承人的国王登上王位，女巫是深层欲望的投影，血与毁灭将降临大地，乌鸦已群飞遮蔽天空
画面和风格很不错，但是情节方面可能只适合不怎么熟悉《麦克白》的观众。
觉得很高大上的表演，然而不好看。。。。无论是情节还是单调枯糙的背景，当然，还是能看的。
视听效果极佳的电影戏剧。恍惚中我看到了两个心灵备受自身罪恶折磨的拉斯科尔尼科夫！不过尽管两位主演都是我非常喜欢的，电影没有期待中的那么精彩。
极简主义，风格化摄影，只是莎翁在被翻拍过无数遍后很难再有突破、丹泽尔·华盛顿和科恩嫂的表演也缺乏惊喜。
看过的第一版莎翁剧《麦克白》，极简的黑白摄影，紧凑刺激的剧情，男女黑白双煞的演技，地表最强的台词对白。
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