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Movie Reviews of Gotcha!
Movie Review: A fun 80s movie
Summary: 5 Stars
There are a couple of college kids run around campus shooting paint pellets at one another. The game is called, "Gotcha!" It's a clever game; except for the fact that it's highly improbable that a college campus would allow a bunch of students to run around with realistic looking pistols, firing away at one another. Nonetheless, the environment is set up for all sorts of gun play and killing.
Jonathan Moore, hereafter known as "Dork", travels to Europe with his friend, Manolo, after high school graduation. He eventually meets a woman, Linda Fiorentino (who looks incredible in this movie), who is an exotic Eastern European woman named Sasha for which Dork is craving. What follows is the classic tale: Dork has sex for the first time, Dork falls in what he thinks is love, Dork gets used, Dork gets hurt, and Dork eventually learns a harsh lesson in life.
Dork's lesson starts when he follows Sasha into East Berlin. Somehow Dork was able to rent a car even though he's never been to Germany and he doesn't have a license outside of the U.S. Regardless of the obvious loophole, Dork and Sasha go into commie territory for her work; she's a courier and is involved in some shady dealings. She picks up some film that gets her in trouble, and it turns out that some Russians want her. What follows is the chase that leads Dork all over the place avoiding danger, eluding commies, and eventually returning to America.
In America, Dork learns that he was part of a scam, the commies are still after him, and Sasha is really an CIA operative of some sort. She used him, and he has to find out what all the spy games were about. More importantly, he has to solve the mystery of Sasha's identity while utilizing his Gotcha skills to eventually save the day.
Movie Review: Before "If looks Could Kill" this was the ideal vacation.
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie has Linda Fiorentino in her scrawny years. I had to follow her ever since. This also contains the Berlin I always wanted to see before the fall of the wall. And it even contained a French lesson.
The title "Gotcha!" comes from a game of paint ball where one must track down and shoot various opposition or individuals for points. In the mean time you must keep from becoming a casualty yourself.
It is summertime and Jonathan (Anthony Edwards) is on vacation in Western Europe. He runs into a mysterious woman, Sasha (Linda Fiorentino with a Czech accent) who has this thing for virgins. She lures him to East Berlin and uses him, unknowingly as a courier of film for the CIA. The bad guys find out and the fun begins. I won't tell you the rest of the story, as it is fun to watch the plot unfold.
Cloak & Dagger
Movie Review: Gotcha
Summary: 5 Stars
Gotcha, starring Anthony Edwards and Linda Fiorentino, is an overlooked classic.
It captures the feeling of a time (1980s, with a whiff of 1970s) and places (LA, UCLA, Paris, and East/West Berlin
with the wall still up) just perfectly in a light, and at times comedic, spy thriller romance.
I don't know if that is a film category, but it does combine all those elements elegantly
in a fun story. If you lived in or visited any of these places at that time, you will understand
that this film hits the mark as an imaginative cultural touchstone of all that. The true test
passed is that it has staying power and remains enjoyable after many viewings. The
soundtrack and the film techniques complement the story and move the action along.
Check it out. You won't be disappointed. by Clif Tinker
Movie Review: GOTCHA!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Gotcha stars Anthony Edward of ER and Jsu Garcia of Wildcats and Nightmare of Elm Street as two high school kids who go to Europe for vacation.Garcia, thinking he's a player, leaves Edwards to himself where he meets with up Sasha, played by Linda Forientino, who comes off as a very mysterious person with an awsome accent who takes interest in virgins.
she seduces and uses Johnathan (anthony edwards) into going with her to the commuinst East Berlin for some business that she has to tend to. Edwards, being blinded by love, doesn't know what's going on, but soon will, in a hard way.
Gotcha is an awsome movie with rich cinemetography as the film was shot in Europe.
excellent movie!! i recommend it.
Movie Review: Personal involvement
Summary: 5 Stars
I enjoyed this movie for two reasons. One, I was stationed in West Berlin during the final years of the Cold War and had personal involvement with Checkpoint Charlie, the Berlin Wall, and watching Mig aircraft flying overhead. Number two, we watched them film some scenes with Anthony Edwards and Linda Fiorentino (hubba hubba!) on Mehringdamm right below the windows to our barracks rooms! It was really cool watching the movie at the Air Force theater across the street and recognizing scenes where they filmed. This is a fun movie, and it makes me wax nostalgic for the "good ol' days" when we knew who the enemy really was...