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.
太流水账了…就连我这种对新选组和幕末比较了解的人都觉得剧情切的太碎了，如果对这段历史不了解的人看得更一头雾水了，整部电影也就池田屋事件描写的细一些，到后面土方死的时候都感觉过于潦草，之前看历史节目的时候土方把照片给小队员特别感动来着，电影里就啥感觉没有…
故事还是比较简单的，接到目标之后就开始执行。比较惊讶的是全程都是方言，增添了更多的真实感。
21世纪是缺少剑戟片导演，还是缺少符合武士气质的演员？满足一项也不至于拍的这么差，在新选组系列电影中，几乎纯洁白开水似的流水账，不带一丁点的氛围剑戟片。本该精彩的情节还没开始即是结束，就算历史纪录片也赠送半分钟的动作戏，无高潮的低温燃烧，真亏了这个片名。视角观点，其实不如《壬生义士传》，更不如上世纪剑戟片。
——新选组只有一个人，有勇有谋、有情有义、剑术高超、女人缘好。
还行吧，大家平分都好低。我得去蹲一本原著再看看！
对不熟悉相关史实的观影者来说故事过于流水账。但土方岁三这位叙事者兼主角真是太鲜明突出了，冈田准一从颜值到演技都非常hold住。与阿雪的感情戏，还有与冲田的友谊都有看点。但山田凉介作为冲田总司来说颜可以，但气场是真不行。
流水账，两个半小时我都看的够够的了，导演还是没把自己想剪的全剪进来的样子。
如果没有先辈们的浴血奋战，我们也会生活在黑白色的世界里，他们用鲜血点燃火种，赋予天地间五彩颜色，给与我们生的希望，视觉感受提升心理感受，绝绝子。
之前有看到这部电影获得北影节天坛奖 “最佳男主角”团体奖项，当时还想说为什么是团体奖，看完之后理解了，电影没有任何人是绝对主角，甚至都可能记不清大部分人的名字，就像电影想表达的也是无数个小人物面对战争下的真实状态。
叙事风格和《关原之战》有些像，都是极度简洁紧凑，剪辑很出彩，但用在新选组这个题材上难逃一个有点平的大事记流水账；摄影和调度的场面很出色，冈田准一的身手真是没话说
9分。这个阵容就注定了表现力和角色塑造的高水平，土方打戏超强慢放抠细节也是行云流水的舒适，镜头配乐也很有质感，放在大银幕上视觉效果应该很爽（暗示）。再说缺点，两个半小时真的容不下原著那么长的篇幅，整体节奏太赶太碎，目测有很多地方拍了但限于时长放不进去，对新选组历史不提前做好功课的话想要完全看懂难度不小。如果分成上下部来做，多点镜头放慢节奏把故事讲好应该会好很多吧（
画面还行
一个烂的没救的本子和一些努力在拯救本子的好演员。土方牌摄影机和一堆在仓促的剧情里来不及认是谁的人。打开燃剑之前我真的没想到世界上有人能把池田屋到五棱郭压缩进一个小时。角色吧也没足够的背景剧情支起来，剧情吧连个合格的流水账都不算。原田监督很会拍人，但别自己做编剧了谢谢。
怎么讲，虽然很流水账，虽然有些情节对小说的影像化还原也不尽如人意。但看完之后总还是觉得有韵味。不少画面过了好几天还在脑海里回放。音乐拿出来反复细听也绝对是用心之作。池田屋一段改编哈巴涅拉简直神来之笔。佩服佩服。
老塔是个天才
回忆录式的叙事风格让故事线清晰易懂，但还是略显紧凑…而且不太喜欢原田导演对女性的描写…
作为一部电影叙事过于碎片化且流水账了，不过土方冲田的选角不错
土方口述生平。电影本身算大制作，最后的鸟羽伏见战役花经费做大场面了。但出彩的点又很难说上，事件描述的侧重不明显。有流水账之嫌。
主线很清晰但剧情之凌乱，剪辑之混乱，令人一头雾水。炸药包哪里来的，子弹永远打不完，上岸之后还有火柴抽烟，都很经不起推敲啊。
太美了，是一种残酷的浪漫，清澈的河流，水中的浮尸，漂浮和花瓣，寂静的丛林，用如此诗意的方式讲述这样一场令人绝望的战争。
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