John Belushi never had much chemistry with any of the women in his movies (not even with the female regulars on "Saturday Night Live"), which makes this attempt to turn him into a romantic leading man a curious one at best, an ineffective one at worst. Belushi plays a hard-news reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, so popular around the city that cab drivers and working girls applaud him on the streets. After an expose on a crooked city councilman results in an attack on his life, Belushi's editor gives him on out-of-town assignment: traveling to the Rockies to write a piece on a female ornithologist doing research on bald eagles. This slick, mild amusement might have been perfectly acceptable as TV-movie, but is revealed to have no depth or character when blown up on the big screen. Director Michael Apted, screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan and Steven Spielberg's production company all apparently wanted this to be a Tracy and Hepburn update, a benign, PG-rated family picture to bring Belushi into the mainstream. It's a noble attempt, and the star does show flickers of personality (he gives the finger in his first close-up). But there's nothing much happening between Belushi and Blair Brown, and Kasdan doesn't seem to know much about mountain life, to say nothing of how newspapers work. ** from ****