Buddy cop films existed as a genre before, but it was in 1980s when they became popular among big Hollywood studios. Following success of *Lethal Weapon*, there was an effort to create as exotic pairing of two protagonists as possible, like American and Soviet policeman in *Red Heat* or alien and human policeman in *Alien Nation*. Compared with those two, the pairing in *The Presidio*, 1988 crime thriller directed b…







