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i fe i A 4 IP- -v -vi. I-' 4 iDlilit-tsE -J i VS Treat Williams (I.) and Kris Kristofferson In "Flashpoint" 1 1 3 1 By HANK GALLO Strangely, there isn't even one riveting minute of film here. The mystery of this alleged action film surrounds an abandoned jeep Ernie and Logan find complete with the skeletal remains of the driver, a FLASHPOINT. Wild Kri Kristofferson, Traat Wll Hams, RIP Torn, Test Harper, jean Smart. Mth Street East, RKO Warner Twin, Manhattan Twin ami the 4th Street East Theaters.

Running time: I hour, SS minutes. Rated R. rifle with a telescopic sight and a stash of $800,000. It is, as Logan sees it, their ticket out OB LOGAN (KRIS Kristoffer- But someone else also finds this 20-year-old vehicle and now the desert is swarming with government son) and Ernie Wiatt (Treat Williams) are just your aver men. These government men, of the unscrupulous variety killers, in fact don't want people to find out -aww the guy in the jeep was paid with government cash to off President Kennedy.

All this could have been interest ing if not handled so sluggishly. We could have done without the age guys who happen to work as border patrol officers in' the Texas desert Their passions include tequila and upholding the law. They also have a feeling' for the two lonely but lovely telephone operators (Tess Harper and Jean Smart) they find in a stalled car along a desert road. "Which one you Logan asks his partner. "The mean one," Ernie replies.

Funny guy, that Ernie. Ernie and Logan also prove to be boring and so is this William Tan-, nen-directed movie about them. Tan-, nen, incidentally, is making his feature film debut after a career of directing television commercials. melodramatics, too. At one point, Kristofferson actually drops to his knees (after he's been shot in the shoulder and Ernie has been killed with Logan's knife), raises the rifle above his head and screams to the Heavens, "Who were you? Who were tin ft you?" By this time Who cares? Who 9 cares? 'Stunning! Not since the Beatles burst oil the screen in 'A Hard Day's Night' has the sense of a Cannibalistic.

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