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.
很怪，但又不够怪。索伦蒂诺还是太重了。摄影是美的。
拍给自己的电影。后半部分尤其好，看似炫技的运动镜头此时充满了情感。
一桩转会能化解家庭危机这种事，让人怦然心动又恍若隔世。“这座城市对你毫无启发吗？你有故事要讲吗？” 然而故事的最后还是说了拜拜。只能感慨索伦蒂诺毕竟没有上帝之手。
有点无聊、矫情。“故乡、童年、马戏团”中马戏团绝对是费里尼的灵魂，也是索伦蒂诺模仿不出来的、也构建不起来的灵魂。而且我恰恰觉着，他在这部电影里暴露了短板。但电影提示了我一个命题：日常与成长。
那不勒斯少年的青春记忆，庞大臃杂的家族聚会。性感的小姨，神经质的姑妈，擅长恶作剧的妈妈，诙谐的老爸，消极的哥哥……充满激情，喧闹的生活。
海邊藍色的那不勒斯，遼闊而迷離，伴隨著馬拉多納的到來，略微岣嶁的青澀少年，和一大家老小們歡快而悠閒的生活著，各種雞毛蒜皮的小事，性感的小姨，出軌的父親，活潑的母親，惡作劇的歡樂，似乎就這樣一直過著，等待馬拉多納將會帶來的冠軍，然而，一場變故奪去了少年的父母，也是因為他要看馬拉多納現場而躲過劫難，瞬間的長大，終於讓少年明白了自己的方向，上帝之手，指引他走向未來導演的夢想…
人总会以回溯的方式为自己的过去创造条件。性启蒙，足球马拉多纳，费里尼，家庭，梦想，命运，生命。导演为自己父母的去世创造另一种方式，让自己的不在场更加遗憾。“不，我永远不会忘记”
哪里才是我彼岸
能感觉到是导演很私人的一部影片，导自己的过去，除了随意叙事的真实感，还有对过去超现实的还原，其实也是种慰藉吧 （那不勒斯真的很美，想起小学的磁带随身听了）
【3.0】沉溺于自我感动的自传性叙述，在我看来并非影片无法消化的关键问题，私人化的东西就该被作者用深沉的爱去捍卫，哪怕走到与观众对抗的地步。影片的问题在于它距离主人公的青春成长太近，是一部人物生命力过旺的作品。《绝美之城》《年轻气盛》动人的恰是情感世界被抽空得只剩青春伤逝可以缅怀的老态龙钟的人物塑像，索伦蒂诺的电影只有在一切趋于疲态时才是绝美的，他处理不了《上帝之手》这种需要大量动作和情愫变化的费里尼所长的动态风俗画。
那个夏天，我告别了童真
都说是意外,我却看出了双双殉情的影子。有外遇私生子的父亲以他自己的方式爱着妻儿,原来《年轻气盛》中老音乐家故事出自于此。妈妈"精湛"的耍橙子技艺背后,隐藏的是如许伤痛。
我真的非常讨厌索伦蒂诺 比贝托鲁奇还讨厌很多
裂缝来自于人物的视角，切镜头
于索伦蒂诺而言，罗马，是重生绽放的地方，那不勒斯，是回不去的家，是忧愁与青春，是费里尼与马拉多纳，是上帝之手的点拨与命运之神的玩笑，是“现实很糟糕，所以我想拍电影”最终梦想的萌芽点。所以，他成就了罗马之城的绝美，年轻气盛的哲思，那不勒斯的哀思与乡愁，个人认为，索伦蒂诺是目前意大利唯一最具大师气象的导演。
只不过换了主角，场景，情节的另一种演绎。
动人，断魂
#有生之年 在布宜诺斯艾利斯买一件86版的10号球衣。
属于索伦蒂诺的私人故事，他已经找到了激情和说出自己故事的勇气，于我并无什么情感共鸣，只是爱上了那片蓝色的海。
前半部好难看进去，从“上帝之手”发生之后整部电影就突然变了一个气质。那段导演和法托比黄昏下的争论实在是太妙了。狂欢下的孤独，关于痛苦，我只服费里尼和索伦蒂诺。“你到底有没有故事”后劲十足。
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