Gotcha!

Gotcha! (1985) is a Cold War spy comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Jonathan Moore is an eighteen-year-old college kid whose one real talent is a campus game of paintball assassination — sneak up, tag your target, walk away the winner. On a summer trip to Europe, the game suddenly turns real.

In a Paris café he falls hard for Sasha, a mysterious older woman who turns out to be an intelligence agent. She talks the lovestruck student into carrying secrets back across the Iron Curtain, and soon he's dodging genuine killers through East Berlin armed with nothing but the ambush instincts he learned playing for fun. Anthony Edwards plays Jonathan a couple of years before Top Gun, with Linda Fiorentino as the dangerous Sasha in an early role.

Director Jeff Kanew keeps it breezy, blending teen comedy with spy-thriller setpieces in a way that's pure mid-eighties. It's light and a little silly, but it has charm — a good pick if you miss simple genre movies from that decade. Stream Gotcha! online on iFILM.