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.
比很多院线片的质量高。演员摄影配乐节奏全部在线，虽然剧情老套开场二十分钟就猜到谜底。当文艺片看的话不错。有两句台词很戳我，“梦寐以求的，唾手可得”。“人生像一条夜河，你在其中湍急而过，任你如何努力，都无法在最喜欢的地方停留”。
脸盲真的看到一大半才勉强分清几个女主的长相，选角能不能操点心……悬疑谈不上悬疑，有点神神叨叨的，节奏拖沓，一个悬疑凶杀案拍的这么絮叨让人走神也是可以。总是有一些美术摄影高于叙事的成分在。
整体完成度还不错，剧情可以再浓缩一下，个人觉得7分左右。
中规中矩的悬疑片 我都可以猜到反转
6.5 画面，摄影印象深刻。演员也不错，故事讲的中规中矩。几个让人不理解的地方难以忽略。
文艺感可以，悬疑感不足，故事不新颖，略冗长拖沓！
案子本身有点弱，属于年代感的淡淡忧伤加一分
调色真怪。故事还不错，虽然转折略刻意，都是在意料之中的有意为之。导演还是挺稳的
-跟随叙述改变影像设置悬疑，很有层次感。
导演算挺有正事。画面不错。时长还需要再减减。
Fair, 能看出来导演在用心拍，但还有增长的空间
片名、节奏、色调、人物内心戏，都非常合拍，冷静中的暴力，很有观感
文艺大于悬疑，很值得细细回味的片子，bgm也很好。很难想象这是一部网大？
富有文艺气息的悬疑片，视觉氛围营造得不错。相比于中途就猜到结局，反倒是人物的行为逻辑有些难以自洽，影响了质量
如果没有那个变态的杀人犯，那些美丽的女孩们会不会有另一种美好的人生。
5.3，摄影品味不俗，美术可以过关，但编剧和导演真的很拉胯，编剧bug遍地，导演不知道哪儿下机位，不知道该用谁的视角讲故事，不知道一场戏里应该关注谁跟谁，空镜不是分隔符，空镜是叙事，有表意的好吗？剪辑就是一通胡剪，最不要脸的是宣发，什么“我们错过了戛纳”……要点脸可以么？戛纳跟你有什么关系？下作！
6.5 画面，摄影印象深刻。演员也不错，故事讲的中规中矩。几个让人不理解的地方难以忽略。
有点扯，剧情的转折很生硬，全靠后期制作营造一种诡异的气氛来撑住这部电影。
表演和配音拉胯了整体，故事有点累，摄影和氛围塑造还不错
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