Review: is a mess . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: thoroughly unrewarding all of this 
Sentiment: negative

Review: ... grows decidedly flimsier with its many out-sized , out of character and logically porous action set pieces . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: executed with such gentle but insistent sincerity , with such good humor and appreciation of the daily grind that only the most hardhearted scrooge could fail to respond . 
Sentiment: positive


Review: phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer , christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene 's prose ,