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.
年度最佳的院线电影，能在年尾的电影院里看到这样的片子真是幸福。藏在平静庸常下的城市味道，算得上是上海情书了。只有上海才会有的浪漫做作与世俗生活的混杂，竟然在里面能找到中男中女的丰满内心。累，麻烦，但仍然有期待，大概就是爱情的力量吧……
没有实质性的内容，无端端围绕一个男人团团转，这是爱情？我不晓得。俏皮话很多，但搞笑不等于幽默，这里面有智慧的差距，所以看到蛮多好评说导演拍片像伍迪.艾伦，我就觉得算了吧。前者是谈情说爱表面功夫，后者深入人的性情心理，质感完全不同，现在这电影更像是某集没头没尾的电视剧或小品，不过要是我也能碰到电影里不收房租还供伙食的房东，我也会说片子灵，我就是这么俗。是嘛，你们有钱有闲长得还那么好看当然灵咯。我还特别看了上海的友邻们的评价，两极分化，夸得基本是夸它全程用方言（我倒觉得这没啥难度）骂得则指出这根本不是上海，“都不知道这群人从哪里冒出来的。”另外：老乌感情爆发大讲索菲亚罗兰的那段戏最蹩脚；不喜欢导演在美术馆和片尾夹带的自作聪明的私货，所谓致敬费里尼的那点内容也很尴尬；没有爱情神话，连笑话都看不到。
连修鞋匠都端着咖啡杯的上海，
私心给个五星。实在是太喜欢这种充满生活气息又慢悠悠的调调了，而且台词设计的很不错，第一次吃饭时那场打得有来有回，却不见半点火星，最后还是以促狭幽默结束，实在让人惊喜。
灵啊灵啊，赚不到钞票没关系，明年拿奖拿到手软哦。
创作者对于爱情/生活/电影的想象和理解是多么贫乏，而观众又是多么饥渴
#电影院# 并不像伍迪艾伦，还以为看了部侯麦
简直太神了吧！2021最后一天看到了全年最好的电影。到中后段的时候不断的感叹，对白真的太好了，这个味道太对了，导演太会了。世界上有太多给纽约的情书，有Woody Allen. 现在上海也终于在20世纪50年代后有了另一部属于这个城市的电影了。值得鼓掌3分钟。
让我感觉别扭的地方是，导演既想歌颂爱情，又迷恋于一种温馨的“同层文化景观”。——但爱情之所以能成为神话，在于它是一种颠覆性的情感，能跨越难以逾越的障碍（通常表现为阶层障碍）。——就好像，导演既要向费里尼致敬，又要在片尾用上海小吃揶揄大师的阳春白雪。和其他经典的文艺片一样，费里尼的《爱情神话》的精彩在于其极端的创造性实践（“一部关于古罗马的科幻片”），这种艺术密度往往会遭到普通观众的拒绝或嘲笑。所以，本片结尾其实是在用“日常生活最伟大”的主流论调否认了前面挖空心思营造（我更愿称之为“想象”）出来的上海文化格调，也否认了超越世俗而存在的爱情。
爽文电影。由“那一夜，我们看话剧”，“那一夜，我们喝大酒”，“那一夜，我们看费里尼”等篇章系列组成，引发多年前的那一夜幻梦布道。从情景喜剧角度欣赏，可能远好过从文艺角度切入。
“这电影在讲什么啦”，“看也看不懂”，“这跟爱情有啥关系”。
8/10。看完后忍不住拍手称赞“灵足”！它的存在让中国电影有了新的可能性。全沪语的日常对话让上海风情在举手投足间肆意流淌，导演在致敬费里尼的过程中做得最好的一点就是拍活了一个城市。同时，它的笑点是高级的，女性形象再也不是固化的了，甚至男性形象都呈现出丰富性。每个演员都散发着魅力，三人美术馆的交锋戏让人拍案叫绝。市井与艺术、神话与日常，是可以相互融合、相互转化的。在真与假之间，我们寻着喷泉，睡倒在电影院，穿越大半个世界，构造出自己的爱情神话。
很喜欢，这种属于中年人的都市轻喜剧在国产片里可太难得了，全程上海话非常好笑，上海人的生活情调和精打细算也处处体现。最惊喜的是甚至后半段渐渐偏离了爱情，徐峥和几个女人形成了一种微妙的和谐，毫不狗血。老乌和索菲亚罗兰那段简直是神来之笔，编剧非常有水平
由于平原上的火焰撤档，所以才临时看这个，但是真的超出预期了，年近五十的人也可以好浪漫啊
90后就是90后的水平呀。成功地把上海拍成了坊间传说的轻浮浅薄模样。哦，还有做作
最惊喜的是老白到美术馆找两个女人那一段，布景和光影、台词、站位，想传递的信息，在国产电影中属实少见。
土耳其绑架撕票，不妨碍夜夜笙歌；
《李小姐的高跟鞋》《她相好的就是北方人》《我编的》…维斯·安德森之后迎来伍迪·艾伦，中年男人的爱情与家庭碎一地…总之，恭喜徐峥老师找到全新口碑密码。
土耳其绑架撕票，不妨碍夜夜笙歌；
来之前看过一些影评都夸，声称女性主义电影，进去直呼上当，头一次见围绕男主角为第一视角的女性主义。非得睡同一个男人才能将几个女人联系起来吗？想不通。
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