PlatinumRead Just so...so bad

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

wandawrong-1 In the first 20 minutes we find out what the crime is and who did it.After finding a witness to a murder the detectives know the killer is an officer. The witness is then killed in their hiding spot. Very likely only one officer could have known where he was. They then find there were previous killings and that all record of them have been wiped out. Again the suspect officer would have had to of known of these killings but acts as though he never has. But our star detectives are completely befuddled.The next 70 minutes is anti-climatic to all except the characters in the film and the screenwriters. Even Inspector Clouseau would have found and arrested the guilty party in the first 20 minutes of this film.

dbdumonteil During the sixties,Anataole Litvak made "the night of the generals".A nazi officer was on a prostitutes murder's trail in Varsaw,Poland:and it seemed that the culprit was a general (check the title).That script was absurd -in Varsaw,during WW2,there was worse,to say the least!-and dubious taste.So back in Saigon,during the Vietnam war.Two cops are on a prostitutes ' murder's trail...and it seems that this killer is a general....Well you get the picture.Well,it's not that bad.It's rather entertaining,thanks to Dafoe's good performance.A lot of things do not rise above routine:the two cops who ,of course, are very different,the de rigueur swearwords ,and strip tease galore.What's more interesting is the conflict between the American cops and their local colleagues ,although it's much too superficial,as the Dafoe/nun 's relationship is.Unlike Litvak's Polish extravaganza in which we soon know the murderer's name,"off limits' is a whodunit,saving his identity for the last minutes.Best moment:although over the top,the scene on the plane where two simultaneous questionings take place gives goosepimples.

Alex Brown From early on in this film, you got the feeling that this was destined to fall into the love story between Willem Dafoe and the cute nun.Colourful indeed!Dafoe and his partner Gregory Hinds are investigating murders of prostitutes in Saigon, who have all been killed by an American GI. It's their job to find which one.Competently scripted, reasonably directed and acted, this is another in the line of harmless enough Vietnam films of the time, that are neither particularly good nor particularly bad.

TGG-1 I watched this film on Sky movies the other night, it is called Saigon here in the UK. It is of course set in Saigon and I think if you took this cop thriller and set it in LA or New York it would just be another average cop film. What makes it different is the setting and the backdrop of the Vietnam conflict. I must admit though I guessed the murderers identity about halfway through the film. It was also refreshing for the guy not to get the girl as it were! A decent if a quite forgotten film.