Gotcha! Reviews

1985

Rated:
60
from 179 members

Jonathan Moore (Edwards) is a shy UCLA veterinary student and the reigning champion at 'Gotcha', a campus-wide paintball game. While on vacation in West Germany, he's seduced by an older woman, the sexy and mysterious Sasha (Fiorentino) who turns out to be an international spy. When he returns home to LA, there's a strange .. Read more

Starring	Anthony Edwards, Linda Fiorentino
Director	Jeff Kanew
Genres	Comedy, Drama

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Critics' reviews (2) of Gotcha!
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An uninspired, if watchable hybrid of the teen wish-fulfilment comedy and substandard John le Carré. A youthful Anthony Edwards impresses as a shy college kid who embarks upon a European vacation and gets involved with a spy ring, while Linda Fiorentino's turn as a sultry spy leaves one pondering why it took so long for her to blossom into a star. We've all seen it before — innocent abroad has an affair with a sophisticated older woman. However director Jeff Kanew offers plenty of frantic scurrying about and sharp one-liners to paper over the elements of déjà vu, if little in the way of actual danger and suspense. Put simply, it's “diet Hitchcock”.
- Radio Times
- Posted 29 Jan 2006
Funny and enormously entertaining, it's a delightful romantic-comedy adventure...
- Judith Crist
- Posted 29 Jan 2006
Most helpful members' reviews (3) of Gotcha!
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

GOTCHA

as a film I remember well from my youth I have got to say it aint changed, Dont expect your clasic James Bond but as a film from the BRAT PACK years you cant knock it, you could do worse but not much better well bar Breakfast Club
- - A customer from East Anglia
  - Posted 05 May 2005 21:36
2 out of 3 people found this review helpful

Cheese

This movie is unbelievable, absolute American propaganda of 1985. To see the main character call home from a dreary East Germany to his parents in L.A. sitting by the pool drinking margarita's while their Mexican maid serves them was unbearable.
- - <>< from Bournemouth, England
  - Posted 22 Jul 2006 15:06
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

Brings back memories

This film, I loved it in the eighties. The first half is a little slower than I remember but still a cracking evenings entertainment.
- - A customer from Scotland
  - Posted 08 May 2005 unknown
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

Brings back memories

This film, I loved it in the eighties. The first half is a little slower than I remember but still a cracking evenings entertainment.
- - A customer from Scotland
  - Posted 08 May 2005 unknown

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

GOTCHA

as a film I remember well from my youth I have got to say it aint changed, Dont expect your clasic James Bond but as a film from the BRAT PACK years you cant knock it, you could do worse but not much better well bar Breakfast Club
- - A customer from East Anglia
  - Posted 05 May 2005 21:36
2 out of 3 people found this review helpful

Cheese

This movie is unbelievable, absolute American propaganda of 1985. To see the main character call home from a dreary East Germany to his parents in L.A. sitting by the pool drinking margarita's while their Mexican maid serves them was unbearable.
- - <>< from Bournemouth, England
  - Posted 22 Jul 2006 15:06
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

Brings back memories

This film, I loved it in the eighties. The first half is a little slower than I remember but still a cracking evenings entertainment.
- - A customer from Scotland
  - Posted 08 May 2005 unknown
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

80'S UNSUNG CLASSIC

I first watched this film back in the 80's and with most 80's films it is a bit cheesy but it is a film which doesn't have a hard story line to follow it is just pure fun
- - A customer from Manchester
  - Posted 15 Feb 2007 13:13

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Critics' reviews (2)
An uninspired, if watchable hybrid of the teen wish-fulfilment comedy and substandard John le Carré. A youthful Anthony Edwards impresses as a shy college kid who embarks upon a European vacation and gets involved with a spy ring, while Linda Fiorentino's turn as a sultry spy leaves one pondering why it took so long for her to blossom into a star. We've all seen it before — innocent abroad has an affair with a sophisticated older woman. However director Jeff Kanew offers plenty of frantic scurrying about and sharp one-liners to paper over the elements of déjà vu, if little in the way of actual danger and suspense. Put simply, it's “diet Hitchcock”.
- Radio Times
- Posted 29 Jan 2006
Funny and enormously entertaining, it's a delightful romantic-comedy adventure...
- Judith Crist
- Posted 29 Jan 2006