Gotcha!

1985 "His first time may be his last."
6.2| 1h41m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 03 May 1985 Released
Producted By: Universal Pictures
Country: United States of America
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A student on a trip to France is tricked into smuggling secrets across the Iron Curtain by a sexy spy.

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Nonureva Really Surprised!
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Rumjal This film has been unfairly condemned by those who are not fans of this type of game. Real gamesmen love this type of film, as much as they love the game itself. I note that this film was based upon the college game of Assassin which used paint-ball guns, and that there is now a successor to this game called StreetWars created in 2004 which uses water pistols and which has been held in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London and Paris. It is to be hoped that this latest installment of the game will yield a another movie. A Shadowy, Wet World of Squirt-Gun Assassins By MICHAEL Wilson www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/nyregion/27wars.html
acustomer I will admit, some people have 80's nostalgia on this movie, but it is PAINFULLY bad, particularly the ending. I mean, I can appreciate it on a different level as being a "bad movie" but this is a laughing-at situation, not a laughing with. If I had to categorize it, it would be right next to Red Dawn- a higher budget ham fisted Soviet flick.Things to look for: - Soviet spies manage to sneak up on them in an open field, dressed in menacing black outfits - But then shoot and miss, at about 30 paces - But then run after them waving around guns and shooting up the campus! - While the campus is oblivious. Somehow. - But then Jonathan shoots one from behind, and shouts "Gotcha!" - And likes this so much, he does it twice more, in two completely unnecessary scenes. Which would have made a funny running gag, if they had just had 10 guys chasing him instead of 4.Cringeworth at points, indeed. The suspension of disbelief in this movie is that films this bad simply cannot exist. But, by the end, even that is dispelled.
Pepper Anne In my book, Gotcha! is another good movie in Anthony Edward's catalog of 80s movies. Edwards is Jonathan, a somewhat wimpy looking college student who's afternoon frat boy fun of tagging his rival classmates with a dart gun as he chases them around campus, is about to come a reality in an arena of gritty international espionage. And Jonathan oughta know, these guys don't f**k around. Jonathan and his buddy, Manolo (Jsu Garcia) take a trip to Europe during semester vacation. For Jonathan, he'd like to spend times soaking up the local culture with beautiful girls, but he's just too quiet for all of that, unlike Manolo, who's so brazen that his pick up lines are thinly disguised stories about him being a spy and needing an escort to help distract those who are following him. So, of course Manolo gets the girl.But Jonathan soon get's lucky, too, meeting an elegant, but secretive Russian woman named Sasha (Linda Florentino) who gives him some story about being an exchange student and all of that. He even ditches his friend, Manolo (they were supposed to go to Spain) to go with his girlfriend to Germany, which is not an ideal vacation destination in 1985. But Jonathan, smitten with his new girlfriend, finds out there is more going on, and soon enough, his little games of pretending to be a spy are going to help him get out a real jam, or else he's going to wind up dead. It is actually a really enjoyable movie, seeing this quirky guy stuck in a real life game of cat and mouse.
FreakOut69 I first saw "Gotcha!" in 1985, when it first came out. This is, by far, one of the coolest spy flicks of the 1980's -- way better than all of those generic James Bond movies. The scenes in the DDR will put you on the edge of your seat. Makes you relieved you lived in the U.S. during the Cold War. My favorite Anthony Edwards movie (next to "Revenge of the Nerds"). I just watched it tonight for the first time in a decade, and I have to tell you: It is still as entertaining and slick as it was in 1985.

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