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.
画面是真的很美。之前在电影院看到预告，就挺疑惑，这么多大咖，这是个什么奇奇怪怪不知所云的预告😂看完了只想说，搞这么大阵仗，就讲了个这😂😂如果不是前面太过于平缓冗长，其实后面还不错👌
挖掘企业文化的暗面，审视逐利剥削的企业生态；各种荒诞与精心的讽刺之下，还藏着一些不寒而栗的真相——它甚至提供了像《人生切割术》一样的感觉（只是更简单、更直接）。“我甚至不想叫他的姓”，对移民的评论还有被精心打造的“川普-wannabe”形象；Jarvier的表演相当出色，用这个换《里卡多一家》未尝不可。
昨晚，不知多少人和我一样，被「国师」张艺谋「知微见著、去繁化简」的「中国古典」美学和浪漫震撼与感动到。虽与东方传统文化大相径庭，但喜欢钻研「黑科技」的观众也不妨看看西方《梦魇巷》里的「精神现象」学。显然，这是一个吸引「眼球」和争夺「注意力」的时代，导演的工作就是吸引并操纵观众。对于「江湖骗子」来说，导演仅是一个饭碗。然而，男主却是一个有「弑父」意识和包袱，且有「恋母」诉求和冲动的「时空」旅行者。他一面「挣钱」糊口，一面《偷吻》学艺——他的「艺术」启蒙导师是他的母亲，而他的「越界」对象亦是扮演《心灵猎人》角色的「通灵知心」师母。在托罗这部试图运用「基督」文明详解「水火既济」卦相，被「空心病」患者低估的寓言作品里，他的理想观众显然不是那些寻求感官刺激，容易被「江湖杂耍」牵着眼和脑子走的访客。待续
前后呼应还是可以的 男主最终成为了他口中没有soul的geek 但是凯特那个Doctor角色的行为动机真的有点不清晰 还有说的很厉害的那个2号客人那段剧情很虎头蛇尾 把自己的女友叫来装鬼魂 一秒破功是什么鬼？而且这样的大老板竟然被男主这个骗子在自己的地盘赤手空拳打死？头号手下被他用车撞死？总觉得过于敷衍
摄影、美术真是一贯托罗的细致扎实，原以为会是一个魔幻故事，没想到是一个阿加莎式的故事
当我看到电视广告"Cate Blanchette is the greatest femme fatale of all time"的时候就没办法不看这个电影了。第一个抱怨还是太长了。前后两段是两个电影吗。群星云集的，Bradley cooper其实不错。感觉是个警世片，几个教训：喝酒毁人生，不要和笑容冷艳颧骨高的金发美女打交道（适用于所有黑色电影），不管你怎么避免你都会最终变成你憎恨的父亲的模样。I still had a good time, along with 3 other people in the theater. Had a churro donut with ice cream. Absolutely delicious.
这有什么好拍两个半小时的，两个女主都没说几句话！
我一直坚持觉得作者电影的导演最好看的影片始终都是处女座，因成功获得的资源和声望对创作者也是掣肘。所以在《水形物语》之后这部电影，无疑是一部分人的惊喜和另一部分人的无奈。陀螺他真的玩的很开心哇！
画面构图绝了，摄影得奥提，实至名归呢！故事明显分为两部分，一个是马戏团，一个是都市森林。马戏团破败诡异又不乏温情，都市森林体面但更危险。马戏团的部分让人很有亲切感，让人想起了2030年代电影中的马戏团生活，而都市森林导演应该是致敬黑色电影。此片最大的问题就是剧情衔接不流畅，人物动机交待模糊，看的时候像猜谜，剧本并不扎实。但最后，骗子最后落入圈套，还是让我挺动容的！库珀真是何德何能，能够一部戏里和大魔王、托妮科莱特、麻辣兔合作！男有库珀，女有嘎嘎，砸多少资源，跟多少人对戏，没有天赋，得奖都费劲呢！大魔王别动脸了，是真僵了！托妮科莱特好迷人啊！麻辣兔青涩青春之感是怎么保持的，好羡慕啊！看这片子感觉有些人拍戏是不是就想着逃避家庭生活和现实啊，至于啥效果，也不太在意呢！大魔王麻辣兔没有姬情戏，诈骗了
昏睡到最后半小时才清醒。实在厌倦了白兰芝一脸“老娘是宇宙巨女主”的表演方式。
整体太缓了，跟这个故事最不搭的就是时长了，第一幕太长，不过这个色调是真的好好看，很有《致命魔术》那味儿…
看的时候可能觉得平淡无奇。但是过后回想时，它的黑色不在于人性的污点和罪恶，而是那个细思极恐的命运的深渊。
陀螺怎么能把两个骗子高手过招互相欺诈的故事拍得如此无聊的？又臭又长，毫无悬念，这部电影就像片中的马戏团本身，廉价且过时。
老套的故事，唯一让我感到特别的是心理医生怎么就控制了男主，原来答案还是催眠，但电影里并没有交代。其实这部还是在探讨人性。
竟然鲁尼和大魔王没搞姬，那这片子拍出来又有什么意义呢？
陀螺怎么能把两个骗子高手过招互相欺诈的故事拍得如此无聊的？又臭又长，毫无悬念，这部电影就像片中的马戏团本身，廉价且过时。
天啊，这样的卡司，这样的布景，这样的摄影，拍出了一个什么玩意儿？可见剧本到底有多重要‼️
这次不志怪反而选择志人的Guillermo del Toro明显不够得心应手，阵容很豪华，故事却没有什么新意，实在想不出翻拍的必要在哪？
但两者偏偏凑到一起，以至于两个半小时的片长似乎依然没找到好的着力点，浅白平淡之余让人直呼可惜……
7.3/10 第一幕过于冗长乏味，中后部分节奏跟上，我倒是有些看入迷，Stan的结局看似出乎意料，实则完成了我在电影开篇时对他的担忧，从这点来说他的命运是早已注定的闭环。
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