The Presidio (1988)
A female MP is shot and killed on a military base and some policeman has to solve the crime with the help of Sean Connery while trying to get it on with Connery's daughter Meg Ryan. Obviously Connery and the policeman do not see eye to eye as they had a prior disagreement when the policeman was an MP working under Connery.
This is your standard 80s film with nearly all the usual cliches and allegedly a mystery but there is not much mystery to the plot. When the plot was written I am pretty sure the writer just went down a check list of the usual plot points then added in the dialogue. The plot is pretty much contrived to fit the characters back story so there is never any mystery to be had. Having said all that this is not really a bad film in terms of execution but does nothing to stand out from the many similar cop films, one of them has two heads and the other does not like heads etc.
2/5 run of the mill 80s film with little mystery or tension to it.
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