Review: 's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist 
Sentiment: positive

Review: a doctor 's office , emergency room , hospital bed or insurance company office 
Sentiment: positive

Review: the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood 's dirty harry period 
Sentiment: negative

Review: been done before but never so vividly or with so much passion 
Sentiment: positive


Review: is one of those reputedly `` unfilmable '' novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right .