Off Limits

Combining the traditional whodunit with the Vietnam film subgenre, OFF LIMITS might have been an interesting reflection on the American presence in Southeast Asia; instead, it's a formula murder mystery, violent but pedestrian. Set in Saigon in 1968, the picture stars Willem Dafoe and Gregory Hines as Buck McGriff and Albaby Perkins, plainclothes investigators with the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Military Police. Ugly Americans who care little for Vietnam or its people, the two are assigned to solve the murders of six Vietnamese prostitutes with Amerasian children. Reporting to their immediate superior, Dix (Fred Ward), they hunt the killer--sus...