European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Big Karlstedt Bremerhaven Berlin to rambo first blood ii r to bust defense f Rev for mask pg13 Karlstedt Dunt pm 13 Rev Sutu into the night r to hard bodies k Rev for Turk 18 pm 13 radio Bremerhaven so the never ending Story pm to the killing Fields r we the natural pm Rev of baby pm Rhei main Idle Frankfurt Satu rambo first blood ii r we Best defense r Rev for mask pg13 Frankfurt Samo stick r we woman in red pg13 for fast Forward pm Rhel Maln so ghost busters pm Rev Sutu Porky revenge r we rhinestone pm Rev for mischief r evening Pioneer Hanau so the adventures of buckaroo Banzai pm Sutu the killing Fields r we the natural pm Rev for baby pm Jaeger Aschaffenbur closed for renovations Ramstein four Ramstein closed for renovation Ramstein in Walt Disney the Jungle Book g Rev Sutu missing in action ii r we the River rat pm for the Flamingo kid pg13 Sembach a the last Star fighter pm 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fall when it Doest achieve that the problem with the mean an ambitious film that sets out to explore the question of when a reporter stops observing a Story and becomes part of it in its quest to discover ethics amid the desks of the mythical Miami it becomes hopelessly one Hopes for a cinematic sir Henry Stanley to come to the he never the films fatal shortcoming is Lack of the premise of the mean season Doest invite belief its strikingly reminiscent of countless Grade to cop a reporter Kurt covering a becomes the conduit through which the murderer Richard Jordan communicates with the the killer likes his he the police tap the reporters hoping to use him to trap the the reporter begins secretly to hunger for the killers Calls the Pursuit of the and of the invigorates but something goes and pursuer becomes the reporter becomes the killers if the films premise strains its Lack of intelligence destroys no newspaper with the supposed credentials of the one in the mean season would print a Story relying on the Flimsy evidence and haphazard reporting the film if absence of malice showed the breakdown of a newspapers system of checks and the mean season shows a newspaper that Doest bother to employ any such its not a flattering portrayal of the journalism and its a faulty one to the film does ask important journalistic questions to what length should a reporter go to pursue a Story How callously can one Deal with the victim of a tragedy before losing humanity where is the line Between protecting ones sources and withholding evidence How closely can a reporter work with the police or a criminal and still maintain objectivity the questions Are Worth they Are also Worth the mean season Doest answer in it sidesteps the questions its raised by mutating into an action mystery film courageous reporter dashes to the Rescue of his held captive by a maniacal e it the mean season Doest Cut it As an it suffers from a Case of the Little film that cried three times the film sets up a Nerv jingling situation three times it gives the audience a three times it pulls the audiences collective leg it was Only the it was Only the it was Only that sort of practical joking Doest sit Well in real life in a movie the audience begins to resent being by the time the reporters great moment of reckoning its too no one cares what happens to him no one trusts the film add to All this another example of dramatic mismanagement a subplot that completely and totally the reporter wants to get out of the rat race of big City journalism and ensconced himself and his Girlfriend Mariel Hemingway in the mountains of where hell edit a Homey Little weekly its a Nice but its just kind of tossed As if the film makers knew they were in trouble and were hoping this trifle would give the whole mess a Little bad Guys it didst the mean season is playing at cafes we rhinestone pm Rev for mischief r Patton Heidelberg a hard bodies r Rev to Turk 182 pg13 to ghost busters pm Rev Wear Porky revenge r 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rambo first blood ii r us a View to a kill pm Post Samo police Academy ii pg13 we the wild life r for the mean season r Harvey kit Zingen a Dune pg13 Rev Sutu into the night r we hard bodies r Rev for Turk 182 pg13 Stuttgart Patch Patch Barracks closed for renovation Robinson Samo police Academy ii pg13 we the wild life r for the mean season r Pattonville a ghost busters pm Rev Sutu Porky revenge r we rhinestone pm Rev for mischief r Karlsruhe a the adventures of buckaroo Banzai pm Sutu the killing Fields r we the natural pm Rev for baby pm Germer Sheiron closed Hellblom a Cannonball run ii pm Rev to the breakfast club r we Greystoke pm Rev the the mean season r 16 stripes Magazine August 1985