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.
震災は怪物だ。又是一部311震灾创伤片，霓虹金还真是能把大震灾题材翻来覆去地讲故事啊……应该也算是震灾10周年纪念片，濑濑敬久监督又一次选择了很稳的社会派题材然后很稳地讲完了它（并且依然稳定地没有新意），这种纪念题材给这位监督也算是一种稳不出错了。
秋田alive theatre。大意了，以为《犬部》看懂了就敢闯社会悬疑片的场子，结果细节各种懵，还好剧情都能搞清楚。虽然海报c位给了佐藤健，但宽叔仍然是片里最大的咖。佐藤健的阴郁戏份表现极佳，劝圆山那里有点崩（不过人设突然拐弯，的确太难了）。林桑没有特别出彩的地方。有这样的片子背书，我有点担心保险料会继续涨…
7分。准确的说，不算是犯罪片吧。破案的过程和谁是凶手并不是本片的重点，重点在于探寻为什么会发生这样的惨剧。日本地震后产生了很多消极影响，比如很多人因为地震陷入了极度贫困。日本的法律规定，低保必须本人亲自申请，所以并不是所有贫困人口的生活都能得到保障。电影中因贫穷和饥饿死去的奶奶，就是得不到保护的人。她因为个人原因放弃申请低保，而政府工作人员却放任了她这种行为，最终导致悲剧发生。这些政府工作人员法律上并无责任，在地震后他们的工作量剧增，他们自己失去了亲友，还要面对繁重的工作，早就疲惫不堪，于是产生了“反正不可能救助到所有人”的心理。假如他们就是那“百分之一”的卑劣者，那么乘以基数，这个系统中就有成千上万这样的人。可悲的是，国内也在发生着相似的事情。
中间干细胞的桥段有点拉垮，如果只看做是一个理念，不深究现实性，那也还好。如果是科学爱好者…就容易会出戏。
社会派推理。震后恢复以及社会保障，天灾之下的内疚、愤怒或者负罪感以及社保带来的援助以及弱势身份等多种矛盾复杂的情绪是有足够的挖掘空间的，不过影片更多是口号式的教导，同时缺乏有效的情感塑造。而推理方面也鲜有亮点，节奏没有起伏，双线叙事稍显累赘。普普通通的行活，浪费演员阵容。
永远都中王珞丹的毒。 高粱饴，棒棒糖。 强行加上干细胞，整得云里雾里的。败笔
悬疑部分被削弱到几乎没有。前半部分重点呈现的群戏也很没有必要，反而后半部分跳跃性叙事主线才是应该尽早呈现出来的东西。整体氛围实在是太苦大仇深了，沉闷压抑，拿腔捏调。是枝裕和常有社会性事件题材的故事，我们看他的电影却不会觉得目的性如此强烈，非常刻意地营造真事改编的氛围，让故事的艺术性和可看性双双削弱。
确实是“讲”了一个挺长的故事，“讲”的挺长。感觉讲了四五个小时才讲完。
感情线索埋得挺好，苦情了一大半，最后破案也太突兀了，瞬间跌到谷底，人类的悲喜并不相通啊。。。sigh
前后割裂挺严重的一部电影
社会派悬疑的感觉，主题是311震灾创伤，比较早就猜到凶手。还是看过就算了。
结局应该是大家意料中的，整体略嫌冗长，但演员们实在是太棒了，整体令人信服的表演，把未曾经历类似灾难和困境的自己，完全拉进了故事的情绪和思索。。
看了一个小时，大概是那个小女孩儿是罪犯吧，拉到最后果然是，剧情还是有些平淡，比起身边正在发生的事情，还是欠缺一些感染力。
电影本身，无力自救要活活饿死的人，有心行善又铁了心钻进制度笼子，相信宏大愿景而无视眼前具体的伤痛的人，明明讲的是这么让人无力、值得反思的事情，最后的最后啊，却偏是落在阿部宽对佐藤健说“谢谢你想过要救他”，然后两人如获救赎般看看海…
社会派悬疑的感觉，主题是311震灾创伤，比较早就猜到凶手。还是看过就算了。
“那段清晰而又绵长的记忆，是我这辈子最快乐的时光”
开头的那个年代把我一下拉回童年瞬间泪目，如今中年的苟且在看到两小无猜的美好时一下就崩塌了，上一次那么纯真是什么时候呢?可能它早就死了.
既想讲地震，又想讲社会问题，又想拍推理，结果就是每个方面都不够深入，表现一般。好在阵容不错，清原果耶妹妹在这部里演技也不拉胯。
旁白多的我想砸屏幕，剧情扯的我想杀编剧，常识性错误多到我想去给他们上上历史课。
连环杀人事件跟社会问题比都像个噱头，重点在于震后对低保人群生活保障的立意。但感觉导演想两手抓，最后反而都一般。
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