Assassinio al presidio

"Murder At The Presidio" is a routine mystery. Lou Diamond Phillips plays James Chandler, a detective who is looking into the murder of a woman on a navy base. When he gets too close, the Army becomes an enemy for him.

Lou Diamond Phillips is very charismatic in the role. Jason Priestley is underused. The story and characters are mostly one-note. You know their every word and action ahead of time.

It's a little more suspenseful then "The Presidio" but that's not saying much.

In the end: If you like LDP, it's worth seeing, but that's it. "Renegades" or "Boulevard" are better choices.

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I helped make this movie up here in Canada and I had a really great time in doing so.

I was an extra and provided the military transportation for the movie and getting the takes down was fun and interesting.

I would work for John Fasano any day I think he did a really good job rebuilding this movie. Lou, Victoria, and Jason and all the other actors were fantastic and would love to work with them again. The staff and production crew did and awesome job making this movie possible and my hat is off to you.

Thanks again for a great time and for meeting all the people I met in these travels.

As for people who haven't really watch this movie i suggest you do

This movie started out a bit slow, but Lou Diamond Philips character was deep and intriguing, plus he's a good actor all around. I enjoyed watching him deepen the character and makes you want to keep watching, to see if and when the killer is revealed and what is the motive. The middle part of this movie got me trying to guess who the killer was 😁

The movie was fine as far as the genre goes. I prefer military themed movies to at least portray members of the military accurately. There is no way an Army officer in uniform is going to have any facial hair other than a mustache. Special Ops sometimes do have beards, etc, but not garrison stationed officers. The Motor Pool PFCs were too old to still be at that rank. If they were that bad of a soldier, they would have not been retained in the Army. Actors who are hired to portray soldiers should have a haircut to match the role. Lou D. Phillips introduced himself as a Warrant Officer, yet I heard him referred to as Lieutenant. I still haven't figured that one out yet. The movie wasn't bad, but this reviewer found the military inaccuracies glaringly distracting.

Too many rather obvious errors in military matters prevent Murder At The Presidio from achieving any great status. Still as a murder mystery it's not a bad one. It is set in the final days of the Presidio in San Francisco being an operational military installation. And in those final days a murder is committed.

The wife of Sergeant Martin Cummins is murdered by home invaders which is a really odd concept other than the fact that the housing for the base personnel is nearly empty. Only one other unit was occupied in the building that Cummins and his wife lived in.

Lou Diamond Phillips plays a CID investigator and apparently as such doesn't have to wear a uniform. He's already assigned to a case involving theft at the Presidio of military equipment, but wants this homicide. The head of the Military Police Eugene Clark doesn't want him and that leads to a running conflict throughout the film. Phillips gets more than moral support from Victoria Pratt another MP.

The two cases at first not connected get connected during the course of the film.

Some nice supporting performances also come from Leslie Esterbrook as Cummins's partying mother, Daniel Roebuck as the base commander, and Jason Priestley as very hostile brother-in-law to Cummins.

About halfway through we know who did it. After that it's just a question of gathering evidence. Canadian locations stand in for the Presidio as it is now a national park and shooting there would be problematic.

Lots of goofs and errors, but the basic plot is a good one.