Review: costner 's warm-milk persona is just as ill-fitting as shadyac 's perfunctory directing chops , and some of the more overtly silly dialogue would sink laurence olivier . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: on losers in a gone-to-seed hotel 
Sentiment: negative

Review: it puts washington , as honest working man john q. archibald , on a pedestal , then keeps lifting the pedestal higher . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: does n't give you enough to feel good about . 
Sentiment: negative


Review: plays like a bad soap opera