The Presidio | | Cast : | Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan | | Director : | Peter Hyams | | Studio : | Paramount Studio | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | June 10, 1988 | | DVD Released Date : | March 12, 2002 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 15, 2005 | | Summary | entertaining | Content
 | It's not the greatest thriller out there, but its decent enough to enjoy if you just don't assume that its a bad movie. Sean Connery does an excellent job, and Mark Harmon is not as wooden as other reviews would have you believe; he is at least comparable to his role in Navy CIS on tv. The action scenes are good, especially the foot chase in Chinatown. And the San Francisco locations are used to create a nice atmosphere. Connery and Harmon play off each other quite nicely and there are many scenese of subtle humor...a good movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 05, 2004 | | Summary | Will Keep this one | Content
| 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] |
| Rating | | | Date | October 04, 2004 | | Summary | Remembered What I Forgot | Content
| 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. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 06, 2004 | | Summary | BOTTLED WATER, BOTTLED EMOTIONS, SPRAY OF VAPID SUBPLOTS | Content
| 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. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 23, 2004 | | Summary | WHAT A BOMB OF A PICTURE. | Content
| i ACTUALLY FELL ASLEEP WHEN WATCHING THIS MOVIE, IT HAS ANOTHER DULL SCRIPT BY LARRY FERGUSON ( THE MAN SHOULD WRITE POLITICAL SPEECHS INSTEAD BECAUSE THAT'S ALSO A JOB WHERE IT DOES NOT TAKE ANY TALENT TO WRITE). MARK HAROM IS MISCAST IN THE ROLE, SO ARE JACK WARDEN AND MEG RYAN, AND EVEN SEAN CONNERY LOOKS STIFF IN THIS MOVIE. PETER HYAMS COULD NOT DO ANYTHING WITH THE MOVIE EXCEPT TRY TO SAVE IT IN THE EDITING ROOM BUT EVEN A DIRECTOR'S CUT HERE WOULD NOT DO ANYTHING, A MOVIE BETTER LEFT FORGOTTEN. |
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