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.
这种电影就是很明显地知道男主在扮猪吃老虎，就看编剧如何自圆其说，以及导演如何把控节奏顺带炫技，看完觉得二者都未提供惊喜，把故事限定在单一空间内需要个很巧妙的剧本，要能表现出高潮戏的心理对峙，拿裁缝刚要揭露杀人事实结果话锋一转这段就很小品，类似本山挤眼小沈阳说有还是没有那个感觉，老大全程也形同弱智，没有匹配对手，光突出男主老谋深算也没什么意思。
短小精悍的室内电影，感觉拍成话剧会非常精彩，剧本不错，层层反转，虽有bug，瑕不掩瑜。
中译名和海报真的很不OK，没有体现出这个小故事的黑色幽默！bgm爱了爱了感觉在玩锈湖。
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。
窃听录音带是个关键，我觉得也是个bug，前面投过那么多次的信封，难道黑帮从没听出是假的吗？再说一个小小的裁缝店能录到什么秘密啊。
像套装一样精致又刻意hhh 总之没有一个裁缝是好惹的懂了吗！
撸起袖子加油干！不仅讲的是50s的故事，拍的亦像是如此，动人心弦处，移步换景，已经步入裁缝店，马克·里朗斯已然killed me。
但是剧情真是…看的时候紧张刺激
师傅长得好于和伟……
非常优雅流畅，设计精妙，反转连连，演员张力很棒
所有的场景转换都在一个裁缝店里完成，男主最后一个眼神转换有惊到我…但总体有点隔靴搔痒的感觉
全片只发生在一间小小的裁缝店，但仍不掩剧情的精彩和刺激的反转，布景、灯光、摄影都极其讲究。马克·里朗斯一人的演技撑住全场，“文斗”黑帮戏份过瘾，最近难得的高质量悬疑片
让男主的气定神闲显得非常悬浮
就用复古的模式讲了个故弄玄虚的故事呗 场景很省钱 人员调度很方便 遇到喜欢这种形式的还会夸奖一声结构精巧 剧本很适合当作舞台剧演出呈现 但是有《死亡陷阱》珠玉在前 这部实在算不上精妙
一年少看两部这样的话剧片，生命会多很多乐趣
I want so bad to be good. I am not a tailor. I am a cutter
此前对北野武拍电影之前的人生经历知之甚少，看完这部电影，不得不说北野武滚烫的人生真是充满了传奇色彩啊。
If you have done your job, all the true craftsmanship has already occurred. The finishing are mere inevitabilities.
老马和Johnny flynn再度合体。很适合舞台剧，这种戏对老马来说没什么挑战度。
北野武的自传，关于梦想的故事。北野武也可以温情励志。“不要扮丑被人笑，而是要靠表演逗人笑。”
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