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Summary: Cheesy
Review: Kind of cheesy, in an amusing, enjoyable way. Only Meg Ryan, supposedly Connery's wild and dangerous daughter, is unwatchable in this movie.
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Summary: Will Keep this one
Review: Ordered because of the actors but found the story easy to follow.
I don't tear a movie apart - just enjoy it. And this is one I liked. Couldn't stand Meg Ryan's hairdo though. Too messy!
After watching NCIS I wanted to see some earlier movies of Mark Harmon [definitely liked his character in West Wing last year - the dogs had to kill him off]
Sean Connery is always well worth watching - good or bad.
What can I say, I enjoyed the movie and will watch it again.
Certainly enjoyed the "thumb" scene action. Do it again Mac.
Yup! our guys are aging well!
Will Recommend [but it is your choice]
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Summary: Peter Hyams directs another Snoozer ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Review: 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. Bruce Broughton's score is not bad.
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Summary: To much going on here at a snails pace.
Review: Review of the Presidio starring Sean Connery and Mark Harmon.This is a 2 star story with 5 star actors, so I rated it 3 stars. The strength of this movie could be said to be that the characters played by Connery, the base commander and Harmon an X-MP under Connery and now cop were not very likeable. The friction and emotional tension between these characters is the heart movie. The murder mystery takes a back seat. Another side issue in addition to the murder was the love interest of Connery's daughter, Meg Ryan for Harmon and her friction with her dad. Another friction in the story is that of a military base located near the USA's Saddom and Gamorrah known as San Francisco. The movie bogs down and drifts as the characters treat each other inordinately poorly, and in a manner not justified by what we know. If the movie was based on a book that provided that information, it was not shared with the movie viewer. A good cast is wasted here and this is a 2.5 movie rounded up to 3 for its stars.
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Summary: Amusing, funny police/action movie
Review: The buddy cop formula for action films began in the late '70s or early '80s, and by 1988 it was beginning to wear out its welcome. Still, for what it is, The Presidio is a pretty entertaining movie. By the books? Sure. There's a crime at the beginning, a chase ensues, and the bad guys get away - for now. Next, we meet Mark Harmon and Sean Connery, two real good cops at odds with each other. Yeah, I know - it's going by the how-to-make-a-cop-movie-in-the-1980s manual perfectly. Well, what heppens next is enter Meg Ryan, Connery's supposedly reckless and wild daughter. She, of course, is Harmon's possible love interest, and also the vehicle by which Connery and Harmon are brought together as friends by the film's end. In the meantime, these cops at odds are "working" to solve the murder. They finally do, there's a shootout in the end, and all the crooks get shot up. The Presidio lacks slapstick comedy (except for one outrageous scene where Sean Connery beats up a drunk with his thumb) and a lot of sex, which might contrast it to other films of the genre. Instead, this one tries to piece together a murder investigation while toying with the personalities of the cops, and does so in an amusingly awkward way. At first, Connery will not ride in the car with Harmon - he walks to wherever they are going. They argue incessantly, Connery threatens people with obnoxiously obscene language, Harmon beats up Meg Ryan's date, and yes, you get the feel that the investigation has taken a back seat. They spend a lot of time at a military shooting range looking at slugs from various sorts of weapons, they argue a while, and then they go home. Then Connery is off talking to a friend he hasn't seen in a while and Meg Ryan is chasing Mark Harmon all over town in her car. The point is that whatever it is that director Hyams is trying to do isn't clear. If you are critical, you might want to avoid watching this one, as you will find it's romping sillyness and action too distracting. If you're the kind of viewer who just enjoys stuff like this for what it is in a non serious way, you'll probably like it. Although I understand that Paramount has plans to start really beefing up its DVDs, this one is your typical bare bones edition. Widescreen (2.35), a trailer or two, and chapter stops.
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Summary: Remembered What I Forgot
Review: The Presidio reunites director Peter Hyams and actor(a personal favorite of mine) Sean Connery. The pair made a cool sci-fi actioner called Outland, sort of "High Noon" in space, on that basis I was looking forward to seeing this film when it was first released. It has been quite a long time since I saw both films, to be honest, I didn't remember much about The Presidio and now I know why.
The investigation of a murder on a 1,400-acre military compound in San Francisco reunites base commander Lt. Col. Alan Caldwell (Connery) and Jay Austin (Mark Harmon) one of his former officers (Mark Harmon), now a cop assigned to the case. These two men have never had the greatest of relationships as commander/officer--now forced to work together to solve the case. The situation only worsens as Jay finds himself falling for the commander's daughter Donna (Meg Ryan), who herself, has a weary relationship with her father.
Hyams does the best he can as director, I suppose, but the story needs a lot of work--and that is the film's biggest problem. The script, written by Larry Ferguson, is filled with one thriller cliche after another. The mystery, such as it is, isn't all that hard to figure out. And by the end I didn't really care who did what and why. Ryan and former TV hunk Harmon have no on screen spark that makes that aspect of the film believable. For his part, by this time, Connery could do this part in his sleep. He seemed bored...Not even the great character actor Jack Warden as pal Sgt. Maj. Ross Maclure, can save this one.
Not suprisingly, is the fact that, the only extra on the DVD is the standard theatrical trailer. What a shame. Ho Hum.
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Summary: Meg Ryan and Sean Connery, wow!
Review: This has got to be one of my wife and I's favorites. This is the Meg Ryan I remember from my college days. Not the sappy sweet angel from "you've got mail" but the forcefull, erotic bad girl. Yet the Love scenes were handled tastefully and yet you are left with no doubt what happned. I rate the sexual tension in this one right up there with "the Big Easy". Oh and the overall plot is pretty good to.
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