LeonLouisRicci This is as painful to watch as it is predictable, clichéd, and completely forgettable. Wasting a fine Actor like Sean Connery is the least offense in this boring, formulaic Film. There is the haircut, pretty Boy Mark Harmon, who has zero Screen presence, along with the Female haircut, pretty Girl Meg Ryan. When they are together in this Dud, one would be hard pressed to find a spark anywhere. The on the hood of the car seduction Scene is only one of the many embarrassments in this wasted effort.The Director, who really should stick to Cinematography, has tried to grow into the Helmsman role from behind the Camera with varying results that have never reached beyond Mediocrity. Here with this awful mish-mash of Reagan era Flag waiving mixed with a Buddy-Cop Formula that is at best forced, there is just nothing here worth recommending.Fans of anyone involved in this Turkey would be better served to avoid, because it is an indefensible insult to Moviegoers from Big-Budget Studio Hacks. Oh yea...the Title, well that's a whole other misstep not worth your time.

Mel J 'The Presidio' is a decent enough military action thriller, dating back to before 'JAG' or 'NCIS' were ever conceived. The film sees a military policewoman being murdered on her rounds at a San Francisco Army base. As the ensuing chase for the assailants involves both the military and civilian police, there is a resulting clash over who has jurisdiction to investigate the murder. Civilian Detective Jay Austin is sent only to find himself working with Lieutentant Colonel Caldell, his former commanding officer when he was an MP. To make matters worse, Austin finds himself falling for Caldwell's daughter.Sean Connery, as Caldwell, is suitably gruff with Austin and his men yet loving with his daughter. Mark Harmon plays Austin well as the brash young cop who is weary with military protocol despite expecting no less. The pair portray an interesting partnership that is contentious, at times, yet there is genuine affection there with Caldwell being almost paternalistic on occasion.The story is solid enough, keep viewers involved and throwing up well-depicted characters as well as reflecting upon the differences between the military and civilian police force. There is also plenty of action to keep things going. Fans of 'NCIS' would certainly enjoy this, if only to see Mark Harmon playing the less experienced, boisterous 'DiNozzo' character in Austin (a stark comparison to the stern Gibbs of the TV show, who may well have been modelled a bit on Caldwell!). A well-made buddy flick with a difference.

elshikh4 If anybody told me 10 years ago that there is a thriller starring (Sean Connery) and (Meg Ryan) together and I won't be able to bear it to its end 3 times.. Maybe I would call him names, smash at least his face, and destroy his future for good !!!Just kidding. But the makers of this movie weren't ! However they made a movie which impelled me to wonder; what's the secret of that one's silliness ??I'm crazy about the queen of cheerfulness (Ryan) and the original James Bond (Connery). And yes, I'm not a fan of (Mark Harmon). But none of them is the one to blame here.Maybe it's the screenplay which was so tense between being a movie about having peace among one family and in one's soul, or being a bang bang action thriller. Both ways I thought it did an accepted job so you can see (The Presidio) as a mediocre social Film or a mediocre action movie !! But I didn't have a real fun while watching. Mainly because some kind of lame direction from (Peter Hyams), so with the low budget you might think it's a TV movie. And a boring one too !The only thing which survived, and still that original till now, is of course the love scene between (Meg Ryan) and (Mark Harmon) IN THE STREET !! When their love was exploding to the extent that they almost made love on the parked cars ! That's the one and only thing to enjoy in such a languid tasteless movie. But knowing that (Ryan) will end up in the arms of (Harmon) kept eating me all the time to tell you the truth. So here's another reason to dislike the whole thing!P.S : I've never ever commented on a movie without finishing it. So I had to watch the end of (Presidio) at last but in the fourth time. Yes, I was that board to death to find any other more important thing to do !!

Nazi_Fighter_David Detective Jay Austin (Mark Harmon) was sure that somebody wanted something badly from the storeroom that night… So he broke in and killed his friend, an MP, Patti Jean Lynch (Jeanette Goldstein) during her routine patrol… Austin used to be an MP under Lt. Colonel Caldwell's (Sean Connery) command… He thought he could use the Colonel's help avoiding other channels… His instinct tells him that the bullet belongs to someone on the base… What we get here is an investigation involving both the Army and the San Francisco Police Department… Now, while Caldwell considers Austin a man who has no respect for women and he'll use his daughter (whom he loves too much) to get at him… his friend, Sgt. Maj. Ross Maclure (Jack Warden) knows that Donna is not a little girl anymore, and that her father doesn't want her to grow up… As a woman in love, Donna (Meg Ryan) knows that her father and Austin don't like each other… So she decides to find out about Austin, and about that incident in the Presidio, where the female MP that was shot to death was with Austin when he busted Colonel Paul Lawrence (Dana Gladstone)… The investigation takes a turn when Caldwell knew that Arthur Peale (Mark Blum)—a former province adviser to the CIA in Vietnam—owns the Black Mountain Water Company… Slowly, he begins to perceive that there's a piece missing, something worth killing for… The film carries two car chases in the streets of San Francisco, a good fight in a bar, and a climactic shoot-out in a water bottling plant