Movie Reviews for The Presidio

The Presidio

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Movie Reviews of The Presidio

Movie Review: Great action film
Summary: 4 Stars

Purchased this as a gift for the hubby. It's a great action film which shouldn't be missed!

Movie Review: Two good actors, no plot...
Summary: 3 Stars

1988's "The Presidio" paired veteran actor Sean Connery with a young Mark Harmon and a younger Meg Ryan in a rather mundane San Francisco murder mystery. The movie was set at the U.S. Army's beautiful Presidio of San Francisco military base and in San Francisco itself.

Connery is Lieutenant Colonel Caldwell, the cantankerous, by-the-book Provost Marshal of the Presidio; Harmon is Jay Austin, forced out of the military by Caldwell and now a hot-headed San Francisco police detective. When a military policeman is murdered during a break-in at the Presidio Officer's Club, the two must cooperate on the investigation. Their difficult relationship is made more challenging by Austin's attraction to Caldwell's beautiful but rebellious daughter, played with aggressive gusto by Meg Ryan.

The murder investigation leads to a conspiracy with ties back to the Vietnam War, culminating in a violent shoot-out in a bottled water warehouse. The plot will seem clumsy to audiences now savy on crime forensics; the even clumsier dialogue sometimes threatens to bury the movie altogether.

The movie has its redeeming features. Connerly and Harmon manage to craft a little "old bull, young bull" buddy chemistry on screen. A scene in which Caldwell impresses Austin by using a little hopkido to clean up a bar with a loud-mouthed drunk may be the highpoint of the movie. The movie makes good use of its location shooting around the Presidio.

This movie is recommended as mild entertainment for fans of Sean Connery and Mark Harmon.

Movie Review: BOTTLED WATER, BOTTLED EMOTIONS, SPRAY OF VAPID SUBPLOTS
Summary: 3 Stars

Barring some gorgeous shots of San Francisco and a couple of stray good moments with Sean Connery, there really is very little in this movie that makes too much sense.

The washed-up theme of two partners forced to work together despite hating each other's guts is colored a little by tossing in another character to convolute affairs -- one partner's daughter. Who adds precious little to the theme at the end of it all. In fact, we don't even know what really happens to her after that baseless (no pun intended) bedroom sequence.

And if you mistakenly lead yourself to believe that this was simply an overdrawn soap, there's a "gem" of a secret plot that unravels just in time before the credits roll, leaving you with a simple question -- why was it necessary to involve bottled water at any moment in the execution of the criminal scheme?

An added bonus of skipping this utterly skippable movie may be that you will not have to ask yourself that question.

Movie Review: Peter Hyams directs another Snoozer
Summary: 3 Stars

Pretty mundane stuff from director Peter Hyams as usual. Mark Harmon plays an obnoxious San Francisco police detective who investigates a murder that took place on local military base, and goes head to head with an old army bureaucrat, the presidio's chief provost, unconvincingly played by Sean Connery. Strictly Hyams' usual uninspired formula is at work here. It is still interesting to watch Connery in a role that he is totally miscast and see just how he approaches this character. Mark Harmon gives a credible performance but his talents as an actor are once again left untapped this time by director Peter Hyams. Bruce Broughton's score is not bad.