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.
Edgar Wright的嶄新嘗試口碑毀譽參半，劇情上較遭人詬病例如反轉後劇情無力承接命題，但囊括一眾很難會難看的元素（復古、迷影、霓虹）結合對鏡像的運用，Edgar Wright奉獻一次視覺和聽覺的盛宴。
[CGV대학로] 从家到宿舍那段的flow （结尾走秀的衣服是不是没钱了）
Edgar Wright新作。前半部分还挺不错的，后面有点崩了，女主神经叨叨的看的很烦。
3.5吧，撩到4星，因为我们新西兰小姑娘又漂亮又灵～ 前三分之二都很好，结尾这是何必啊…… （教练我想去Soho看剧
从开头就若隐若现的吊诡气氛，让影片逐步进入惊悚中，但滥用的jumpscare又削弱了氛围塑造而只造成一惊一乍的恐怖效果；另外则是有些过于刻意的反转和只为反转的警察角色稍显僵硬（真正潜藏于细节并在最后一刻能够给观众带来震撼的反转依旧是科波拉的《对话》）
知道为什么现在的衣服和音乐都那么难听了吧……连Edgar wright都不能相信了
而且视听上的美感已经有很多新派恐怖片做到了，算不上创新，但出现了极为少见的男鬼还是很有趣的。
跟海市蜃楼、电话一样，女主以音乐为媒介，联系另一个时空。
畅快淋漓的悬疑电影，一人穿梭在两个世界之间的视觉设计非常惊艳，关于角色身份设计的情节反转也做到了意料之外情理之中，有太多细节值得铺开叙述，我只能说已经有很长一段时间没看到如此精彩绝伦的悬疑电影。
伦敦时尚文化的穿越、物化女性和城市资本主义的发展，都是极佳的点子：这也是预告片为什么会特别好看，因为预告片只会呈现点子。
能看到很多电影的影子，赖特的影迷、歌迷属性还是太重了点，两个年代并没有很好的融合到一起，导致电影从半程开始基本沦为了一场视觉大秀，当然那些镜头拍的的确不错，但是放在了一个比较差的故事里
为60年代女孩的活力和性感加一星，血色中恍然而过的面容，力度刚好，让残忍的场面惊悚加分
结尾的处理得扣分了，太潦草。其实相比性别议题，我看到的更多是导演埃德加赖特本人对这部影片的个人投射，很容易就想到几年前他被迫放弃执导《蚁人》，尽管他为那部电影的剧本投入大量的精力。本片里的Sandie同样在追逐梦想的道路上面临放弃自我，讨好恶魔的境地，像噩梦一样环绕在两个女主身边。我相信赖特依然对当初《蚁人》未能成行而耿耿于怀，这些年的魂牵梦绕，为《Soho区惊魂夜》提供了不少情感支撑。
南方传奇的后传了，pimps never commit suicide，YOU HAVE TO BURN THEM ALL
看了DNEG的VFX BreakDown之后，竟然整个城市、汽车都是3D模型，镜子戏也是各种绿幕的奇技淫巧，比影片本身还有意思，佩服。
5.0 如果说前面是商业考量下不够暧昧的复古腔调，在循规蹈矩之间捣鼓出了一些giallo电影的全新思路的话，结尾就完全是在摆烂，为了所谓反转反转再反转而破坏全片架构的典范，只剩下了掐媚不堪的创作态度，比较一下未免也太奇怪了。还有就是，真没必要整这么多金曲串烧，真的。
很好的视觉片。前五十分钟非常新颖有趣，镜像变身玩出花，后一小时开始凑数了，一度感觉可能剧本是现编的就为了能凑到结局。我不是很同意埃德加赖特的“反父权”真的是在反父权，看上去仍然和糖衣炮弹差不多，从双女主到女性配角其实都很刻板，除了视觉奇观和霓虹惊悚的氛围之外并没有深挖什么“来源”，当然这只是一部大众商业作品不用指望太多
喜欢！私以为Edgar Wright的风格就是奇妙的转场和丰富的流行歌BGM。《Baby Driver》里这些为剧情服务，完成了很不错的一部商业片；而soho则是剧情为风格服务。那梦境与幻想的结合，为他大开脑洞的转场添砖加瓦；舞女这个职业也能肆意挥洒BGM。导演应该玩的很高兴，所以内容节奏什么的，也无所谓了，可能在上面花的心思的比例也比较小。
希区柯克啦，库布里克啦，德帕尔马啦，波兰斯基啦，今敏啦，罗伊格啦……埃德加赖特拍出这么一部片子来宣布：“只要是你能想到的导演，我都不如他们。”
埃德加赖特没有让人失望。前半段精妙绝伦的镜像轮转、场景调度、摄影运镜极尽丝滑，各种怀旧金曲搭配双女主不同场景/角度的凝视/对望/附着引发强烈情感共振。就是看着女主吻黑人小哥让我吐了，这就叫专业吧……
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