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.
根据九十年代印度一起案件改编，揭露了当时印度警察的黑暗以及低种姓部落民的悲惨生活。后面法庭戏拍得还是很精彩的，但前面的叙述太啰嗦了，导演又迷恋于对酷刑与虐待的展示，花了很大的篇幅，其实这些镜头以闪回形式穿插在法庭戏中就行了。导演过于激动，煽情过度，片中很多歌曲其实可以删去，也许可以将影片长度压缩到两小时之内。另外，导演给主角以太多的光环，且有意无意加入了一些政治符号，显得幼稚。
印度版《辩护人》，有关社会底层如何对抗体制，2小时40分钟，需要静下心看。
原来他们那也有JC任意拘捕屈打成招的恶性事件，然而电影并没有拍成一部一般意义的爽片，弱者并没有使用简单的暴力去反抗，相反，他们选择了最难的法律武器去维权，幸运的是法律最终真的保护了他们——“贱民”们，或许这就是法治最大的魅力吧。
开篇一小时我其实对这电影是没啥好感的，叙事很没有质感，尤其是主角太也装B，想来后面会是个男主一路开挂翻案的鸡血片。没想到进入案件调查后，这片品质渐渐上线，拍出了一定的戏剧转折和情节跌宕，虽然一路下来主角一方还是过于顺利，反派一方明显偏弱，但导演想要的基本效果还是做到了，情感表达也释放出来了。其实总体这就是一部情感易共鸣，事件有意义，但电影本身中上水准的电影，介于3.5-4星之间。这类影片，豆瓣的评分一如既往的高的离谱。
超级好看，整个案件逻辑清楚反转合适，恶是真恶，善也是真善！
卖惨片，依旧对印片反感，平面化人物，特色是坏人必暴力，但大家都诚实，多好的法治环境，然后硬插入特色歌曲（这次没舞蹈），不知所谓。
看他国电影，想本国的事情。我就想想
青春是FIRE，努力是无惧嘲笑，友情是当下的我们，爱情是大声表达，亲情是陪伴你健康快乐的成长……精英，才不是教条和绝对规则下的效率至上！
连新酱都开始社畜的可怜了，很少看新酱的剧场，但确实得夸元素过多，讲的深浅易明，虽然得承认我冲着新风CP去的，哈哈。
我们看到一样的罪恶，却不一定能得到一样的结果。世界永远需要有勇气的理想主义
立意当然是深刻的，美中不足是角色太模式化，基本都是单向度的。
按照国产片这几年的尿性，很可能本片会被翻拍，然后背景基本又是泰国，然后还要被吹上天。真是滑稽。
这个学校强调分数至上的原则，这是否和一些事情不谋而合，或者说在讽刺什么。
印东边那国更需要千万个杰伊·比姆，为“低种姓”的人奋力疾呼，伸张正义！
节奏很好，但是过于套路，双方人物刻画，探案剧情都很套路，没有一个令人印象深刻的人物。法院权力很大，还能判决给部落土地。
这或许也是一个“有趣”的对比，让世界上其它地方看到这部良心之作的人萌生某种警醒！
真的非常好看！！！因为温柔的风间，还有可爱的小新他们！
悬疑，青春，友情，爱情，亲情。青春没有无意义的事，泪目。
小新和风间狂奔的操场上也有我的青春呀！
走投无路的小民，在正义律师的帮助上走上维权之路。
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