Off Limits

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Off Limits

R,

1988,

1h 42m,

Crime/

Drama

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45%

11 Reviews

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32%

1,000+ Ratings

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45%

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11 Reviews

32%

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1,000+ Ratings

Plainclothes military detectives Buck McGriff (Willem Dafoe) and Albaby Perkins (Gregory Hines) arrive in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1968 to investigate a prostitute's murder. With the assistance of nun Sister Nicole (Amanda Pays), whose work has familiarized her with Saigon's seedier side, the two men soon discover a pattern of killings and learn that an earlier inquiry was called off by Army higher-ups. As Buck and Albaby struggle to uncover the murderer, attempts are made on their lives.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jan 1, 2000

1.5/4

It is grimness without redemption, violence without mercy, and it lacks even the cheap cynicism that makes some Hollywood potboilers watchable.

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Dan DiNicola

The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY)

Apr 18, 2022

Parts of the movie are entertaining, but as a whole, Off Limits is glib, a little too sure of itself. It's a movie outgunned by its own reckless energy.

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Hilary Mantel

The Spectator

Apr 9, 2019

There are tensions, which might have been drawn out, but aren't; and the greatest let-down is that the man you think did it, did do it.

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Cathy Burke

United Press International

Dec 12, 2017

It's a film about ordinary people put in unordinary circumstances pressed to extraordinary levels, and the film itself becomes extraordinary by the effort.

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Caffeinated Clint

Moviehole

Oct 26, 2008

3/5

An explosive picture! Dafoe is typically great

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jul 28, 2005

3/5

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Rey G

Apr 15, 2019

There's a huge logical flaw in who the culprit is.

Han L

Mar 21, 2017

Two American plainclothes police officers working in Vietnam during the war (they had those?) investigate a string of murders of Vietnamese prostitutes who had babies with American fathers. Cover-up seems likely as the officers are ordered out of the country. Decent enough film but probably not good enough to be remembered long-term.

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Christopher Crowe

Director

Willem Dafoe

Buck McGriff

Gregory Hines

Albaby Perkins

Fred Ward

Dix

Amanda Pays

Nicole

Scott Glenn

Colonel Dexter Armstrong

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Synopsis

Plainclothes military detectives Buck McGriff (Willem Dafoe) and Albaby Perkins (Gregory Hines) arrive in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1968 to investigate a prostitute's murder. With the assistance of nun Sister Nicole (Amanda Pays), whose work has familiarized her with Saigon's seedier side, the two men soon discover a pattern of killings and learn that an earlier inquiry was called off by Army higher-ups. As Buck and Albaby struggle to uncover the murderer, attempts are made on their lives.

Director: Christopher Crowe
Producer: Alan Barnette
Screenwriter: Christopher Crowe, Jack Thibeau
Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox
Rating: R
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Box Office (Gross USA): $6.9M
Runtime: 1h 42m
Sound Mix: Surround

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