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.
被低分的作品，德尔托罗的风格依旧犀利，有一点类似于邪恶版的远大前程，乡村小子学了一堆技巧，贪婪的他想要的更多，结果惹了不该惹的人，做了不该做的事情。
最后十分钟成功拉到2星，真的没矛盾就嗯造呗。前段虽然程式化，乱炖下对个话再来点回忆渲染下羁绊几乎贯穿全片，但整体是舒畅的，关系处理也跟作画和演出一般半油不油，但不至于太腻歪。但最后为啥突然犯病。河浪你是香港电影粉丝吗？也玩突然癫狂这套？
吉尔莫·德尔·托罗的个人趣味很符合他近些年来选择的电影题材。而他也正是擅长制造黑色怪谈的高手。《玉面情魔》正是这样一部电影，在场景搭设、人物造型、氛围渲染方面毫无争议是出类拔萃的，但与此同时相对于原作的反派，这次德尔·托罗似乎并没有原创出崭新的视角和崭新的解读。也许正因此让一个如此豪华的演员阵容也显得暗淡无光，除了几处为数不多的闪光之外，平铺直叙的故事发展也无法令人体会到多少的新意。
确实没必要这么长。You don’t fool people, They fool themselves. 人们都是自欺欺人。骗子渣男活该去当geek。人性还是喜欢残酷的东西。geek真可怜。卡司骗人，让人期待过高而失望。连着看了三部大魔王的片。
虽然脸会不太一样，但是，终于要来了！
大魔王出场前直接给看睡着了…看了一会大魔王又睡着了…Cooper的演技和陀螺的风格…呼……
至于故事本身，只有一点，永远别相信男人的鬼话…
最后十分钟成功拉到2星，真的没矛盾就嗯造呗。前段虽然程式化，乱炖下对个话再来点回忆渲染下羁绊几乎贯穿全片，但整体是舒畅的，关系处理也跟作画和演出一般半油不油，但不至于太腻歪。但最后为啥突然犯病。河浪你是香港电影粉丝吗？也玩突然癫狂这套？
虽说前半程有点肉（其实总的节奏都有点），故事很空，但太黑色电影了，太是我的菜了。新黑色电影的制作标杆。库珀演的好。
不是吧，陀螺？一众大牌演了平淡的二战前故事，夹带太多陀螺的珍藏私货，尤其在嘉年华时期。
- 2022/05/08，看完。我依然喜欢他们，但我没法说服自己喜欢这个端水且铺垫不足的脚本。-
有点太四平八稳了，陀螺的特长在这个并没有太天马行空的设定中，有些施展不开。渐渐地我发现，演员的表演似乎并不是陀螺的强项，如果没有奇情的支撑，现实语境 中即使是这些好演员，也没有建立起良好的化学反应
继《SOHO夜惊魂》之后，2021令人崩溃的名导新片和观影体验。。。。原版《玉面情魔》1947 真香，新版让我想无限吐槽。
好像也没什么差别嘛
色调很棒 但是太拖沓了 托罗又重回他擅长的奇幻风格 而且跟地狱男爵再次合作 大魔王1小时后出现 库珀演坏人还差点意思 奥斯卡最佳影片提名就西区故事暂时无源了 两部都是翻拍的老版
20220228 前半主攻视听/美学（有几个马戏团内的镜头非常漂亮）后半主攻叙事 加上结尾的闭环 怕也是陀螺能做到的最大平衡了 可也无爱可诉；终于还是赶上了最后一场 w/ Paul // 20220301 太自信 太昭然若揭 虽然也未尝是坏事
情节上有些俗套，大魔王一出场基本就猜到是局中局了，差潘神的迷宫一大截，甚至不如水形物语。整体氛围还是到位的，永恒的暴风雨和大雪，神秘又诡异，多给一星。
7分吧，期待了两年多，还是想四星支持一下心爱的陀螺，已经是这些年拿到的比较好的本子了，老派但够黑色也极具寓言意味，非常适合他，也让他在自己擅长的怪诞领域做了充分的发挥，虽然魔兔零互动但各自贡献了很好的表演。另外美术美如画，希望今年的奥斯卡能冲一波艺术指导哇。
还挺古典的一个故事，一个男人的发家覆灭史，就前面铺垫太长了，但到后面都能对上，故事的结局全能在前面找到痕迹，就形成了宿命的意味与回环。太贪心就会上钩，以为是黄雀，没想到自己是螳螂。一直觉得布莱德利·库珀还是很帅的，但他现在太胖了。
bravo 这就是一版现代的美式寓言故事，也是蛇咬尾的又一版本。这个故事精致又巧妙，而且套进了很多美国元素与历史片段，先是男主乡村男孩儿从一个诡异的开头，到后来奇异的马戏团里干活儿，再到后来欲望与野心的膨胀使他一步一步走向深渊，在城市里他遇到了真正的对手，而这个对手才是他激怒的女主角，也是本故事最大的主角，或者说这部电影的主题与中心就是这个女人。到男主设局玩蹦的每一步都是步入圈套里，这是他的命运注定，而命运早已由他的人性掌控。
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