Task: Sentiment Analysis
Input (English): Formulaic, but watchable. . Paparazzi (Paul Abascal, 2004)    Paparazzi is best known for being Icon Production's first released film after the mighty (and mightily money-making) majesty that was The Passion of the Christ. The Icon connection, however, is where any similarity between the two films comes to an abrupt and jarring end. Where Passion pushed all sorts of envelopes for mainstream American film, Paparazzi is simple and formulaic, never rearing its ugly head from the morass of revenge fantasy in which it finds itself bogged.    Bo Laramie (Pitch Black's Cole Hauser, looking and acting more and more like his dad by the day) has gone overnight from nobody to superstar thanks to his film Adrenaline Force. Subsequently, he's packed up his family and moved to the suburbs of LA to be closer to the set for his new picture (predictably, Adrenaline Force 2). Along with the closeness of the commute, however, comes the mobs of paparazzi. Laramie runs afoul of photojournalist Rex Harper (the always-slimy Tom Sizemore), who convinces three of his friends to help him put Laramie in his place. In doing so, however, they inadvertently cause an accident that lands both Laramie's wife (The Craft temptress Robin Tunney) and son (Jurassic Park III's Blake Michael Bryan) in the hospital. Cue revenge-fantasy music here.    The film is watchable, as one would normally expect from this sort of action film. The roles are acted capably enough, though two-dimensionally; it's almost as if Hauser, who's made his living mostly playing guys like Rex Harper, only knows how to play the hero as a square-jawed Tarzan type. That's not surprising in an action flick, though, and can be forgiven most times (look at Predator 2). Where the film becomes moronic to the point of offensive, though, is in the accident scene itself, which is so obviously ripped off from tales of Princess Diana's death as to be insulting to the intelligence of the average viewer. *
Output (English): NEG