A nifty bit of tightrope-walking -- or fence-sitting. Willem Dafoe and Gregory Hines are plainclothes MPs in Saigon, 1968, so they can't be branded as dovelike wimps, but neither do they have to bloody their hands on the Viet Cong, and -- best of all -- the trail they are following of murdered prostitutes leads them to a member of the U.S. officer class. For good measure, there's some naughty flirtation with a Catholic novitiate. The terrible script veers between showoffy profanity and shamefaced platitudes. With Amanda Pays, Fred Ward, Scott Glenn; directed by Christopher Crowe. (1988) — Duncan Shepherd
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