Buck McGriff (Willem Dafoe) and Albaby Perkins (Gregory Hines) are plain clothes policemen that work in Saigon during the Vietnam war in 1968. This is not that easy a job as they have to investigate on the deaths of local prostitutes. Their inquiries will lead them to Maurice (Keith David) who is shot apparently by some locals, and Colonel Dexter Armstrong (Scott Glenn), who is an easy suspect but he leaves the inquiry jumping from a chopper. Dix (Fred Ward) menaces Buck and Albaby that they should leave and return in the US, but Buck will find the truth in Dix's closet after seeing pics of prostitutes before and after the killings, and when Dix wants to shoot him and Albaby for having discovered his evil deed, they'll manage to kill him.
The setting is bizarre because there aren't scenes of soldiers shooting in the jungle (and coincidentally two years prior Dafoe did PLATOON) and the shoots of the city were very nice especially at night, they gave a lot to the atmoshpere. All the actors did a nice job and the soundtrack was fit. My issues with the movie are that the murders' circumstances looked confusing and in the end it looked obvious that Dix was behind all this.
Not excellent but still a decent thriller with some great performances and a different setting, that's for sure.
The setting is bizarre because there aren't scenes of soldiers shooting in the jungle (and coincidentally two years prior Dafoe did PLATOON) and the shoots of the city were very nice especially at night, they gave a lot to the atmoshpere. All the actors did a nice job and the soundtrack was fit. My issues with the movie are that the murders' circumstances looked confusing and in the end it looked obvious that Dix was behind all this.
Not excellent but still a decent thriller with some great performances and a different setting, that's for sure.