Review: a comically dismal social realism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of redemption and regeneration 
Sentiment: positive

Review: had all its vital essence scooped out 
Sentiment: negative

Review: unhappy 
Sentiment: negative

Review: tell you how tedious , how resolutely unamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a reckless squandering of four fine acting talents 
Sentiment: negative


Review: , the seesawing of the general 's fate in the arguments of competing lawyers has the stomach-knotting suspense of a legal thriller , while the testimony of witnesses lends the film a resonant undertone of tragedy .