Task: Sentiment Analysis
Input (English): Roundtree Shines in Landmark Role . The private eye, the mainstay of American cinema, was usually the domain of the Humphrey Bogart types.  Richard Roudtree's John Shaft added more than pigmentation and turtlenecks to the genre.  Roundtree brings an incandescent suaveness and coolness to the screen whether he's browbeating the bad guys, swatting racial insults like they're annoying gnats, or charming the ladies.  Shaft is a classic screen character.  It's unfortunate that "Shaft" is not a classic film.  That can be attributed to a ho-hum storyline involving a Harlem kingpin hiring Shaft to free his kidnapped daughter from Mafia thugs.  With the exception of Shaft, few of the characters in the film transcend the one-dimensional or the stereotypical.  It's on the sheer star wattage of Roundtree that "Shaft" rises above the mundane
Output (English): POS