Review: feels familiar and tired . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: rice never clearly defines his characters or gives us a reason to care about them . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: who sometimes feel more like literary conceits than flesh-and-blood humans 
Sentiment: negative

Review: true to its animatronic roots : ... as stiff , ponderous and charmless as a mechanical apparatus 
Sentiment: negative


Review: on both suspense and payoff