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.
我以为节奏感处理得恰到好处，尤其相比索金导演的前作成熟了很多。剧本苛责的话缺少一个让我惊喜的rosebud，希望芬奇能在《曼克》里做到。
所以今年大选的时候念因新冠去世的人的名字会怎样？
索金写本子的时候都没想到这部会有多应景吧。有几段游行者和警察对峙戏的背景音乐热血得像台湾青春电影。以及，雀斑又一次演了街垒旁的schoolboy。
物质基础和上层建筑缺一不可，他们没有物质基础，上层建筑也没整明白。无论是从政，还是culture revolution都没办法带来真正的改变。
索金的电影依旧有自己的问题，但是在这个法庭戏上用他的方法把情绪传达到最好；Eddie口音确实不明显，演的也很脱离他传统角色，尤其是那个镜头；拿奖的话，比较有戏的可能就是剧本和双男配，Eddie可能混个金球男主提名…
惊艳于索金处理庞杂素材的能力。开篇以定义时代的两件暗杀铺好基调，再用首尾呼应贯穿全片的越战死亡名单确保观众每一分钟都呆在60年代的混乱语境里；漫长的庭审时间被划成了各有重心的段落，穿插历史影像、闪回、单口表演，在戏谑和沉重的交替中把情绪一层层往上推；冲突设置上，先是赋予邪恶以肉身，让暗涌的不公与阴谋化身成这场庭审中有绝对权力的法官（恶心和可怕程度让人想起《飞越疯人院》的拉切特），与此同时，在被告阵营又营造出Tom Hayden与Abbie Hoffman之间的理念之争与惺惺相惜；还非常喜欢索金在单个场景塑造的舞台感，和一些简化后反而更有象征意义的语词和动作，黑豹首领的失语，历史的单向玻璃，“我们的”血，摘下的警徽…This is the academy awards of protest
三体爱好者纷纷打出一星。毕竟他们太有人性，缺乏兽性。
剧本稳中带燃，演员各有亮点，借古喻今但当下民意会不会比当初更加割裂？80
“比起政府对我的藐视，我的藐视不值一提。”
故事主要传达爱、善意和理解。演员之间配合地很好，同一拨演员分饰两个不同地域的人，期间的角色转换一点不突兀，甚至在最后能很好地融合在一起，实在厉害。舞台灯光主要就是冷暖色相的变化，但是样式很丰富。音乐契合故事的发展脉络，最后单纯只有乐队的呈现也是个很好的结尾方式。
机关枪索金笼了一堆奥斯卡咖来拍片，都拍成这样。有趣的是里面两个造反头子一个后来去炒股了一个后来当选议员了还有一个扒酒年自杀了，文化革命真特么讽刺。
“你所说的和平推到政府指的是什么？”
在听到大家唱歌的时候我没哭。只是看到大家在经历灾难之后，仍然笑着交谈的时候，我就泪流满面。
艾伦·索金的一贯发挥，保持了快节奏和高密度的台词，工整且有力。只不过倾向性还是很明显的，并且明明是七君子的故事，电影却拍成了五君子，人物塑造的也略显扁平。
（另外这片在豆瓣的排序跟《亲爱的同志》放一起，也不知道是有意无意，哈哈哈哈哈）
3.7在伦敦西pheonix：里面每首歌都很好听 整体很欢乐 但是下半场一波接一波推高潮的时候每段都让我觉得要结束了却还没完。。。反而有点疲软 但最后乐队谢幕全场起身鼓掌 氛围很好
“当手无寸铁的人连抗议都不行的时候…就只有：
我觉得索金变了，这种变化很微妙，甚至有可能仅仅是小雀斑和拜伦科恩的个人风格带来的改变，但这部真的终于不再那么那么那么的索金了。他拍电影有点匠心，也有点匠气，可他对他的祖国终保有一颗赤子之心，让人看了总不禁热血沸腾，肃然起敬。
一切的不公，至少还可以说出来。另外，美国警察的所作所为，看来和政体的意志是一致的。
幽默又好看。在充满恐惧与愤怒的几周里，很难得的笑了出来。
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