Review: is contrived , unmotivated , and psychologically unpersuasive , 
Sentiment: negative

Review: that came to define a generation 
Sentiment: positive

Review: spends 90 minutes trying figure out whether or not some cocky pseudo-intellectual kid has intentionally left college or was killed . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: badly edited , often awkwardly directed and suffers from the addition of a wholly unnecessary pre-credit sequence designed to give some of the characters a ` back story 
Sentiment: negative


Review: manages just to be depressing , as the lead actor phones in his autobiographical performance