New York private detective Duncan "Mac" MacLain is blind but has keenly developed all his other senses. He pursues his work assisted by his faithful guide dog Friday, his butler, Alistair, and his assistant, Marty. Retired actress Norma Lawry, an old friend, comes to Mac seeking advice. Her headstrong 17-year-old step-daughter Barbara, herself a promising actress, is enamored with her leading man in a small theater production, the much older Lothario Paul Gerente. Paul, who had once been Norma's lover, has convinced Barbara that Norma actually wants Paul for herself and has only married her father Stephen for his money. At Mac's urging, Norma tried to reason with Paul, but he insists that he loves Barbara and laughs her off. Barbara is equally disdainful of her and agrees to meet Paul for dinner that night at his apartment.
Norma's husband Stephen Lawry is a scientist leaving that night on a trip to test a secret invention on which he has been working for the government and the war effort. Worried about Barbara, she uses a pretext not to accompany Stephen and goes to the apartment. When Barbara arrives, she finds Paul's dead body and thinks that Norma has killed him, even though Norma insists that he was dead when she arrived. Barbara threatens to call the police unless she leaves Stephen. Fearing that a scandal will hurt him, Norma agrees. Norma then turns to Mac, who goes to Paul's apartment with Friday and Marty, only to find the body and the rug under it missing. A man arrives to replace the rug and Mac hides in a closet, overhearing a telephone call to Norma's number from "Gabriel" to "Vera." Mac accidentally gives himself away, but with Friday's help overpowers Gabriel, who refuses to talk. Mac has Marty hide him to keep him under wraps.
Norma returns to her country home unexpectedly, which discourages an espionage ring that includes her butler, Hansen, from breaking into Stephen's safe and stealing his plans. They have killed Gerente, who was also an agent, and hidden the body. Mac arrives with Friday at Norma's house and pretends to be her curmudgeonly "Uncle Mac" who has come for a visit. His blindness lulls any suspicions Hansen might have about him. Shortly thereafter, Barbara comes home from an "emergency rehearsal", called to get her out of the house by her director, Cheli Scott, who inveigles an invitation to spend the night at the Lawry home. Unknown to Barbara and Norma, Cheli is the ringleader of the spies. Cheli ordered Paul killed because his affection for Barbara was beginning to limit his effectiveness, and she immediately suspects Mac is not what he seems.
Gabriel's wife Vera, the Lawrys' maid, is also a part of the plot. When Gabriel does not return home, Vera becomes hysterical with worry. Mac secretly asks Vera to meet him in the greenhouse, using her worry about Gabriel as a lure. She is observed by the others, however, and is killed by Hansen before she can reach Mac. The spies cut the house's telephone wires so that Mac and Norma cannot call the police, and Cheli has Mac locked up under guard. Using his blindness as a distraction, Mac overpowers his guard and releases Friday out a window with instructions to "go home and get Marty." Stephen arrives home and Cheli threatens his family if he does not give her the final step in creating his invention, which was not in the safe. Barbara finally realizes how much Norma actually cares for her. Mac tries to stall for time, but is locked in the cellar. When Hansen goes to kill him, Mac has broken the light bulb and his advantage of total darkness helps him overcome the spy. Marty and Friday return with the police. When Friday is spotted by a lookout, Mac overpowers him and is saved from being shot by another lookout by Friday. After the spies are captured, Stephen and Norma are off to Washington, D.C., with Barbara remaining behind to care for her new "Uncle Mac."
感谢革命先烈，是他们的付出和牺牲才有了我们今天的幸福生活。这部电影完成度还是很高的，穿插着万里的成长线，兄弟俩的感情线，所有人的战友情，战争的惨烈，和志愿军的坚定信念，美军感恩节的大鱼大肉和我们志愿军的冻土豆，形成特别鲜明的对比，三个小时的时长每一分钟都精彩万分，我看的超前点映场，中途无一人离席，还有时不时的抽泣声，我自己都被几个画面感动哭，各位演员的演技都可圈可点，是我今年看过的最好的电影。
长，但没必要。视觉观感很累，全片是高潮等于没有高潮。人物形象千篇一律，好像一提硬汉永远就只有这么几个人。总觉得可以更好的，看个纪录片都会哭但看电影完全没感觉。
镜头剪辑细碎，你不知道这是多线叙事还是单线，突然插入的很多镜头跟主线剧情毫无关系。
很丰满的片子，至少不会开头就猜到结局，也不会觉得装，故事满完整，人物满有趣，「致敬」了很多外国悬疑电影和日本推理思路，但不突兀。虽然太长的回忆有拖沓的感觉，但内容信息塞得满满的，而且多个地方的伏笔可以多种解释，给了二次观看的乐趣——PS：为啥现在好电影都有浓浓的话剧感？强行多给点星。
导演表演和剪辑的塑料感之强让我怀疑自己看的是一部院线片么……只是剧本有一些影射的巧思，越南加分吧，但也就到这了。剧本加一星鼓励。看完为中国电影的内容现状感到心酸。
希望不要忘记他们。
越长大越感慨，别说当时的美军想不到，现代人更想不到，在没有制空权的情况下，在补给、装备远远落后的情况下，中国军队打赢了抗日战争，打赢了抗美援朝战争，打赢了一切对外正义战争。
动作戏太差，陈凯歌加徐克加林超贤三大导演化身迈克尔•贝，轰轰轰不停的炸。
李家辉是编剧，但是杀手更是最大的编剧一直在编故事。
虽然不是五星的电影，但五星送给抗美援朝的战士们，唯有感恩和尊敬
其实陈凯歌拍的电影只有两星，三个小时的电影拍的支离破碎。另外两星是中国人民志愿军加成。最可爱的人！
尹正演技太刻意了。剧本挺有意思的，就是很多故意引导的无效镜头
即使转战大银幕，团队仍然以《万万没想到》时期那种剪辑风格沾沾自喜，很下头。
话剧电影再添一员，不过有一说一这样兼顾社会性和诡计的讨巧剧本真不多。
但是我很开心
看完电影后又去翻看了导演幕后特辑，三者的分工与预想的比较接近：林超贤主攻战争及宏大特效，徐克承担细节处的特技设计，陈凯歌负责文本及历史叙事。而三者的存在感与贡献值成正比：林>徐>陈。预料到了本片在文本层面的薄弱，但还是没想到其文本竟然蹩脚到了如此令人吃惊的地步。当所有叙事元素都极其显著地化身为功能主义部件时，一切主题表达都是轻浮、乏力、无味，因为人们似乎不仅可以预料到某个元素的出现，还可以预料到它出现的意义，甚至可以预料到它为什么会出现这样的意义。回顾历史固然重要，但太多处理又显得极度不真诚。近几年主旋律电影的一个大问题：普通话中心主义。这种语音层面的统摄完全宰制了历史至少在一些最基础事实上的自发性，时间的厚度被抽走了，只剩当下的政权“大他者”无时无刻不在发出证明自己在场的迫切和焦虑的声音。
11月12日开分到现在从7.5到7.5。
电影剧本杀。当事人自己都不愿意揭开的疮疤，就埋了吧。| 喜剧和悬疑结合还是有一定难度的，尚算不错。
以前一直不理解为什么他们宁愿放弃生命也要追求胜利，后来慢慢明白了，他们的背后是人民，他们的心中有信仰，他们敢于面对第一强国发起冲锋，只为建设自己理想的国家。
初以为就是剧本杀模式电影 但并不是 又以为是本格推理 但其实也还没到那么硬核 万合式的插科打诨和致敬架起了前半段的趣味点 可怕的是后半部分故事的推理不禁想起了上海小红楼的案子 只不过现实更残忍 当然字幕部分的彩蛋仍然是万合式的自嘲 但不得不说 就导演方面的才华刘循子墨是强于易小星的 至少在长片上是如此
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