Review: amazingly successful 
Sentiment: positive

Review: from a scene where santa gives gifts to grownups 
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 , and it 's there on the screen in their version of the quiet american 
Sentiment: positive

Review: 's nowhere near as good as the original 
Sentiment: negative


Review: appear foolish and shallow rather than , as was more likely ,