Review: as the protagonists struggled 
Sentiment: negative

Review: jackson has done is proven that no amount of imagination , no creature , no fantasy story and no incredibly outlandish scenery 
Sentiment: negative

Review: brian tufano 's handsome widescreen photography and paul grabowsky 's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: terminally bland , painfully slow and needlessly confusing ... the movie , shot on digital videotape rather than film , is frequently indecipherable . 
Sentiment: negative


Review: too much of it feels unfocused and underdeveloped .