Paramount. Director Peter Hyams; Producer D. Constantine Conte; Screenplay Larry Ferguson; Camera Peter Hyams; Editor James Mitchell; Music Bruce Broughton; Art Director Albert Brenner
Sean Connery
Mark Harmon
Meg Ryan
Jack Warden
Mark Blum
Jenette Goldstein
Sean Connery and Mark Harmon go head to head as an Army provost marshal and a San Francisco cop who clash jurisdictions and styles in the investigation of an MP's murder.
Naturally, there's a backstory - they'd locked horns earlier when Connery was Harmon's c.o. in the military - and a complication - Harmon gets involved with Connery's frisky and equally willful daughter (Meg Ryan).
Tug-of-war for dominance among the trio provides the interest in an otherwise ordinary crime story, as Harmon and Connery end up working to piece together clues in a convoluted smuggling caper.
Along the way there are three very splashy action sequences - a car chase through the army base and the streets of S.F., a footrace through crowded Chinatown and the final, treacherous shootout in a water bottling plant that becomes as hairy as the swamps of 'Nam.
(Color) Widescreen. Available on VHS, DVD. Extract of a review from 1988. Running time: 97 MIN.
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