Sign In. Cruel Horizon Hide Spoilers. Hey look, it must have really sucked to be a boat person cast adrift after the fall of Saigon. First they get stuck on the worst boat in Cam Ranh Bay Harbor, then they have to trade a wristwatch for some drinking water, there is a fight over a raw fish, and nobody has anyplace to sleep.
That's all before the pirates show up and toss everybody except the hot chicks overboard. The people hit the water and spontaneously die without a school of pirhanas or giant sharks to be had anywhere. I knew when I saw these pirates that here were some guys who knew how to have fun, and they promptly separate out the good looking women, which makes sense really. All the hot chicks are taken to an island where the pirates rape them, murder whoever else was left in a vicious bloodbath, and set off for the corrupt monastery to sell them all into slavery as prostitutes.
All I could think was man, that sucks. Worthy topic here for exploration, but fortunately or not the plot is about something else. It's about an American who manages to leave the girl with the most amazing breasts in all of Vietnam behind while being evacuated just before the communists roll their tanks into Saigon.
The rest of the movie follows otherwise capable lead Bruce Baron as he sulks around Thailand with his hands in his pockets looking for Vietnamese girls. He visits many a brothel without bothering to tell anyone that he is looking for a specific girl, and for a specific reason.
Rule 1 when trying to find somebody: Tell your contacts who you are looking for, and why. Which is what the film is really about, I guess. How cruel, rotten, sleazy, and unfair the world can be. The movie even ends with text informing us that the barbaric pirates are still at it, in case we were wondering if the film managed to accomplish anything.
