Product Details

• Actors: Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan, Jack Warden, Mark Blum
• Directors: Peter Hyams
• Writers: Larry Ferguson
• Producers: D. Constantine Conte, Fred C. Caruso, Jonathan A. Zimbert
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Run Time: 97 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000003KLM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #71,746 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars entertaining, July 14, 2005

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stardog (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Presidio (DVD)

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.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of Connery's finest., September 14, 2001

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"magiclary" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Presidio (DVD)

I've seen this film about 20 times and I still love it. The terrific scenery of San Francisco is just one element of a "thinking person's" action film. A movie with a brain. And, probably Meg Ryan's best performance on film. Mark Harmon and Connery are perfectly cast and the script is intelligent and fascinating. I love this movie.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Two good actors, no plot..., February 23, 2008

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D. S. Thurlow (Alaska) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Presidio (DVD)

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.