Review: sanitised and 
Sentiment: negative

Review: able to pull it back on course 
Sentiment: positive

Review: cassavetes thinks he 's making dog day afternoon with a cause , but all he 's done is to reduce everything he touches to a shrill , didactic cartoon . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: though lan yu lacks a sense of dramatic urgency 
Sentiment: negative


Review: the worst kind of mythologizing , the kind that sacrifices real heroism and abject suffering for melodrama .