In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.

[EX Q]: i have no real tangible proof of this , but i swear that there are a lot of producers in hollywood who adamantly believe that if you take a bad script , written by a bad writer and give the project it to an equally bad director , then it is actually possible to make a good movie . using their logic , all that really needs be done to change the bad movie into a good movie is cast a bunch of super - famous actors and provide an almost unlimited production budget .
this is the only way i can fathom how 20th century fox hired jon amiel in order to direct this eighty million dollar waste of my time
( not counting the time it took me to get to and from the theatre ) .
now , before i continue to ferociously attack what 's wrong with this film , i just want to point out that one of the reasons it fails so miserably is because it does have the potential to be an exciting thriller .
catherine zeta - jones plays virginia baker , an insurance investigator tracking down an infamous art thief named robert macdougal ( sean connery ) .
if you 've ever seen any hollywood blockbuster before , i really do n't have to spend too much time on frivolous plot details : the two team up for various jobs , stealing various things for various purposes .
the problem we come to is that we 've all seen this a few billion times before and this film does n't break any new ground in the big - budget / hollywood / action genre .
the result is that the entire production feels contrived
.
i 'm going to be completely honest here : pretty much the only thing keeping me awake throughout the run - time was looking at catherine zeta - jones .
now while this may be a compliment for ms .
zeta - jones , it certainly is n't for either the writers or the director , who are not nearly as clever as they think they are .
just about the most profound thought they can inject into this film is when they have macdougal lecture baker on the semantic difference between " entrapment " and " blackmail " .
with an eighty million dollar budget , you 'd think that entrapment would at least feature edge - of - your seat action scenes or breathtaking special f
/ x . well , you 'd be wrong .
the action that is present in this film takes place in a huge skyscraper and is relatively unspectacular .
unfortunately for all those involved with entrapment , die hard narrowly beat it to the screen by ? 11 years .
the reality is that after 15 minutes of watching this picture , you know exactly what 's going to happen , despite rather pathetic attempts in the screenplay to throw in plot twists .
many scenes seem to exist merely as a reason to outfit zeta - jones in extremely tight - fitting clothing .
one particular scene features baker crawling around trying to avoid laser - beams while she tries to steal an ancient chinese mask .
nothing wrong with that , but she entered the room from the floor and knew exactly where the mask was -
so why did n't she and macdougal tunnel in directly under the mask instead of the other side of the room ?
i 'll tell you why : because it 's a great excuse to photograph zeta - jones ' posterior as it slides underneath those beams ( and it also allows a second scene of the exact same thing - the rehearsal ) .
ving rhames also makes an appearance in this movie , and though he has great screen presence ( although so do connery and zeta - jones ) and the most interesting character in the film , not even he can rescue this film from the depths of the boring film abyss
( a concept i invented just to describe this picture ) .
one last complaint : entrapment is littered of instances where macdougal will just slip into a shadow or behind a building , or he becomes obstructed by a moving vehicle and then in the next shot , he 'll spontaneously disappear in ninja - like fashion .
i can picture amiel patting himself on the back , thinking to himself " it 'll leave the audience wondering for days
: how did he do that ?
"
we know jon , it 's called editing .
[EX A]: N

[EX Q]: in the line of duty is the critically praised series of television movies dealing with the real - life incidents that claimed lives of law enforcement officers in usa .
the twilight murders , another one from the series , is dealing with the case of gordon kahl ( played by rod steiger ) , old farmer from north dakota who would rather spend a year in prison than pay taxes to the despised u .
s .
government .
after being released , he still refuses to pay taxes and the warrant is issued for his arrest .
when the u . s .
marshals come to arrest him , it turns out that kahl is n't alone .
many poor farmers in rural northwest share his extremist anti - government beliefs , and the routine operation turns into shootout that would leave federal officers that .
that brings fbi on the scene , and agent mayberly ( michael gross ) is supervising the manhunt .
however , his efforts seem fruitless , since kahl still has many supporters , some of them even in the local law enforcement .
after betrayed , 1988 thriller by costa gavras , hollywood mostly ignored the disturbing trends of rising right - wing extremism in the american northwest , and that remained so until oklahoma city bombing , when media hype brought right - wingers back into spotlight .
until that time , only the television movies like this one bothered to pay attention to that phenomenon .
unfortunately , the twilight murders is still routine and formulaic television film , that uses sensationalist real life content in order to cover lack of originality in the script .
sometimes , like many american tv movies , it creates drama where drama should n't be
.
on the other hand , film is steadily directed by dick lowry , and rod steiger does good job potraying gordon kahl .
on the other hand , michael gross as his pursuer is quite wooden and his interaction with some of the actors is terrible .
however , film does deal with potentially thought - provoking social and political issues , so hour and half spent in front of the screen should n't be the total waste of time .
[EX A]: N

[EX Q]: synopsis : a humorless police officer 's life changes when he befriends a super - smart , super - adorable golden retriever named einstein and a cute , young blond scientist .
unfortunately , einstein shares a psychic link with a bigfoot - sized ape - creature trained by the blond scientist to be an unstoppable killing machine , and this rogaine - nightmare is loose and after the dog and the girl .
meanwhile , a group of white , chain - smoking , gun - toting nsa agents in sunglasses and business suits tries to kill all the other characters in the movie .
comments : watchers reborn , a cheaply made direct - to - video turkey
, is the fourth sequel to the first film version of dean koontz 's bestselling novel watchers .
technically , this should have been called watchers v , but it seems that this cycle of horror movies , much like many other sequel - crazy film series , has decided to drop the numbers from the titles .
( even the star trek movies dropped the numbers from their titles after star trek vi . )
the makers of watchers reborn probably want to fool unsuspecting video rental customers into thinking this might be a good movie instead of a crappy fifth installment of a film series which should have died a long time ago .
this really is n't a good movie .
have you ever rented a movie and recieved a sinking feeling about it when you watched the previews preceding the feature presentation ?
well , any hope a viewer may have had , perhaps because he is a fan of novelist dean koontz or actor mark hamill , will be dashed by the time he 's seen the trailers tagged on before the beginning of watchers reborn .
they 're awful .
these commercials cover films like a strange stripper movie called shadow dancer , some weird crap about a dead indian , teens , and wolves , and an " action " movie called detonator starring scott baio .
scott baio !
what idiot dreamed this movie up ?
after surviving these abysmal trailers , the person finally gets to watch the movie he rented : watchers reborn .
"
maybe it wo n't be
* that
* bad " he may say to himself .
" perhaps , just perhaps , the bottom - of - the - barrel film fluff advertised before it is greatly misleading .
watchers reborn , after all , is based on that cool book dean koontz wrote a decade ago .
it stars mark hamill -- luke skywalker himself from that terrific star wars trilogy .
lou rawls is even in the mix !
" unfortunately , the force is certainly no longer with mark hamill ( he looks very sick here ) , and this movie shares only basic plot elements with watchers , the book .
the latter is really too bad .
koontz is a hack writer producing way too many thrillers for his own good , but he is still my favorite hack writer .
koontz has a writing style which is succinct and suspenseful .
people who read many of his books , however , often complain of repetitive plot devices .
it 's definately not a koontz book if there is n't ( 1 ) a psychic , ( 2 ) a super - intelligent dog , or ( 3 ) a psychotic killer who likes ripping out people 's eyeballs .
watchers has all three devices , which may explain why it 's arguably the most popular of koontz 's books .
the idea behind koontz 's novel , though highly implausible , is very interesting .
basically , a biological war machine is created : a smart dog can be released in battle , track down its target , and then relay the target 's position , psychically , to a large creature designed to kill in hand - to - hand combat .
silly but kind of neat too .
i 'm sorry .
i do n't mean to ramble on about matters not directly linked to watchers reborn , the movie .
i suppose i just do n't want to talk about the movie itself .
this turkey is really cheesy .
no one in this movie can act , including mark hamill , and it 's difficult seeing the aged luke skywalker stumble around trying to be the hero .
the cheese factor is only increased when he 's involved in an implied sex scene with the blond biologist / geneticist / zoologist
/ whatever - the - f * * k
- she's - supposed - to - be
whom he befriends .
mercifully
, the filmmakers opted not to do nudity .
to be honest , the only half - convincing actor in the film is the golden retriever who plays einstein .
you know a movie is bad when a dog outacts all of its human counterparts .
i find it difficult to relate how laughable the action sequences are in this movie
.
and the creature !
yes , the creature out after poor einstein is some guy in a furry suit and a mask which poorly imitates
the werewolves in the howling .
this creature is shot about 500 , 000 times , but it 's okay .
the creature has the ability to kill people by swinging his arms around and pushing .
oh , he can also rip body parts off , allowing for many scenes of fake hands and arms being thrown around . cheesy gore .
that 's another main element of watchers reborn .
it has many bloody scenes which are thoroughly unconvincing and only increase the film 's campiness rather than its suspense .
ultimately , i gave watchers reborn a star and a half because bad horror / sci - fi film buffs may get a few kicks out of the film 's silliness ( though this film will tax even their patience -- it 's an 83 minute film , but it feels like four hours ) .
also , i hate to admit , i have survived far worse than this .
anyone who has sat through the christopher lambert and natasha henstridge debacle known as adrenalin : fear the rush will know what i mean .
finally , i could n't help but think that watchers reborn would work well as " bot fodder " for the creative folks behind one of my all - time favorite shows , " mystery science theater 3000 .
"
this thought alone helped me survive watchers reborn with a smile on my face .
rated r , watchers reborn contains dozens of blood - spattered bodies and unconvincing gore .
it also has violence , obviously .
i would n't recommend it for the little kids , but i 'm sure even young teens would make it through this movie okay .
instead of watching this film , however , i recommend reading koontz 's book .
trust me , it 'll be time much , much better spent .
[EX A]:
N