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

[EX Q]: plot outline - wendy ( samantha press ) , a jazz singer , loves mack ( hugo race ) a criminal and wanna be rock singer who 's planning a bank heist .
mack is also being tailed by a couple of cops , one an inexperienced rookie ( dominic sweeney ) , the other ( john flaus ) a worn out veteran who frequents wendy 's jazz club .
they 're tailing mack , because he has an audiotape that may show evidence of governmental corruption .
meanwhile wendy 's sexually awakener , fifteen year old sister ( rebecca elmaloglou ) has moved in with her , and is secretly watching mack and wendy 's late night love trysts ?
much zaniness ensues the review :
main problem first - about 2 % of rood rock star to actor conversions in filmdom ever really work .
unfortunately , trying to cast hugo race as a violent , sexy criminal falls into the " what the hell where they thinking " category
that takes up 98 % of the rest .
but , hell , it 's not as if he 's the only problem in this well - intentioned but ultimately below average aussie thriller .
leads , race and samantha press are wooden and dull , hampered by some unfortunate attempts at sexy dialogue early on .
though they do manage some heat later in their love scenes , helped , no doubt by them keeping their mouths shut .
the film suffers every time the story shifts back to these two . which is unfortunately , the other main story is n't any great shakes either .
the second part , concerning two cops , political corruption and that elusive tape is incredibly muddled .
at many points during the movie i had no idea what was going on , a situation that did n't improve on repeated viewing .
there is no doubt that this film 's achilles heel is its script .
as for the rest of the cast , it 's a mixed bag .
john flaus , one of australia 's most criminally underused actors , is in top form as the withering , alcoholic jazz fan cop , who may or may not have sold out to the highest bidder .
although he falters at one point , when the script calls for him to get up on stage and deliver a drunken beat sermon , but believe me , they way it was written , no one could have pulled it off .
dominic sweeney is fine , though he seems to be uneasy in front of the lens but he really is n't given a whole lot to do .
pre home and away elmaloglou is pretty good as the inquisitive jojo , but her character seems extraneous to the story , well , at least until the final scenes .
i must admit , in too deep does have some impressive qualities , not the least of which is it visual element .
cinematographers mark gilfedder & peter zakharov have achieved the almost impossible by making melbourne look like a sweat drenched tropic city , which is akin to turning london into san paolo .
the bar is an oppressive red , like all of it 's patrons are being baked while they drink , outside it hazy orange by day and cool blue by night .
if only deborah parson 's script could have supported this idea better .
having two director 's ( colin south & john tatoulis ) does n't help either , the most glaring example of which is the final retribution / fight scene , where for some reason the camera pulls away from the onscreen action , and more importantly it does n't pull away to anything else .
it just stays static as the fight happens in the distance .
it has no reason to it ; it 's just bad direction .
and , ultimately , that is what sums up in too deep
, it 's tries to be good , and you want it to work , but , it 's just lacking the talent behind it , that it needs to succeed .
[EX A]: N

[EX Q]: plot summary : the year is 2024 .
the ozone layer has long since gone and the earth is now protected from radiation by a shield invented by connor mccleod .
the shield , although saving lives , has made the atmosphere hot and humid .
connor is a mortal and a tired old man who has given up hope .
on returning from the opera one night connor is accosted by the leader of a " terrorist " organisation .
they have tried to find out what the company that now runs the shield unit are covering up .
connor is then attacked by two assassins sent by katana from the planet zeist ( like zeit -- get it ? ) .
they fail and connor becomes immortal again by chopping their heads off .
he then brings ramirez back to life in glencoe in scotland .
both ramirez and connor are rebel leaders back on zeist and have been sent to earth as punishment .
connor now has the option to return being the last one but opts to stay with his new found immortality and fight to find out about the company and the shield .
katana meanwhile , fearing connor would return , sets out himself to kill the highlander .
if you have never seen it . being a fan of highlander and mr .
connery , i was in the cinema as soon as i could to see highlander ii :
the quickening .
i wish it had been quicker .
i feel whatever else you can say about a film ( bad script bad music , etc . ) if you sit just plain bored through most of it then nothing much else needs to be said .
the film was short but in my opinion only twelve minutes or so
( the time mr .
connery is on the screen for ) is worth watching .
the plot sounds a little ridiculous but i was willing to give it a chance .
maybe they could pull it off .
instead , i find that the characters have completely changed from those in the first film .
it 's as if they are different people with the same names .
witness connor jumping into bed with the leader of the resistance -- where is the attitude of " who wants to live forever , when love must die " gone to ?
the love sub - plot
* must * have had footage cut out .
the highlander and ramirez both seemed aware of powers they had never mentioned before .
putting our heroes in deadly situations and then having them walk away because of some new power is very annoying .
i still want to know why connor 's coat becomes flame proof when he is immortal !
we are not given enough time on zeist to believe in it , nor are we told why advanced aliens still use swords to kill .
why not dynamite or laser saws or just plain bullets followed by a quick chop to the neck ?
i know the head needs to come off
but you could at least immobilise your opponent with laser rifles first .
to be fair one assassin tried this
but he must be the world 's worst shot .
meanwhile connor develops luke - skywalker - like powers of laser beam deflection .
as for " bad guys , " we see a rebellion on zeist , crushed easier than a grape and then the rest of the plot depends on katana being obsessed with killing mccleod in case he returns to zeist .
two assassins are sent , presumably they are meant to be good at killing but an aged connor kills them both with no problems .
no more assassins are sent .
katana , supposedly a very powerful man goes himself to kill connor .
has he no more assassins ?
has he no better ?
why was the rebellion crushed so easily then ?
michael ironside is totally unconvincing
( bring back the kurgan ) .
he seems like a cartoon character and really is n't that evil , just stupid and violent .
we see the hollywood trick of the chief nasty threatening a child again and killing lots of innocents .
yet he still seems like no threat -- perhaps because he seems too stupid to threaten connor , or maybe because his two best assassins would n't have been amiss with larry , curly and mo .
so much for plot and characters .
the music is atrocious .
it is at best intrusive and at worst annoying . bring back queen .
there was an audible sigh ( of relief ? )
when connor played a queen track in a juke box .
i believe this at least is to be corrected for the american release .
the acting is at best flat , except for mr .
connery .
lambert is uninteresting and when he delivered " there can be only one " this time around it
just made me wish there had only been one -- highlander .
michael ironside is unconvincing
; sorry , michael , i usually like you and everyone else was incredibly forgetable .
so why 2/10 ?
visually the film is interesting at all times .
it has a blade runner feel to it and some of the special effects are quite stunning .
add to this an irrepressible sean connery who smiles throughout the whole film -- or is he smirking to himself ?
his lines and delivery might make the film worthwhile
had it not been so obvious that he can not take the whole thing seriously at all
but hey
--
*
i 'd * have done it for 12 million .
oh , and i agree with a previous reviewer
, she * does * look like sharon stone but i believe it is her first film .
incidentally there is a line producer credited and i hear rumours of highlander iii : the wizard .
[EX A]: N

[EX Q]: conventional wisdom among collectibles retailers is that children 's items begin to dramatically escalate in price about twenty - five or thirty years after the item was made .
that 's when the kids of that time have jobs , disposable income and a desire to re - visit the awe and wonderment of childhood that has disappeared from their lives .
check out the prices of toys from the late sixties and you 'll find that yogi bear lunch boxes are demanding big bucks .
there 's a heavy nostalgia nowadays for the late sixties and early seventies and nowhere is it more apparent than on the big screen .
boomers are now mostly in their forties and fifties and have lived in the work - a - day world for a long time .
they 'd like to re - capture some of that fun they remember from days of yore .
hollywood seems more than eager to churn out product to help them .
directors are zealous to put their stamp on icons from that time .
and for the most part they 're messing it up .
" mission impossible " , " lost in space " , " godzilla " , " zorro " .
none of these successfully capture the originals .
none of these are even good films .
you can now add " the avengers " to the list .
the british television series began in 1961 .
super secret agent john steed ( then - patrick macnee ) and his third partner , emma peel ( then - diana rigg ) are the pair that the american audience fell for .
surrealistic and witty , the series fit the mood of the times .
the leather - clad rigg probably did n't hurt the ratings either .
after all it 's not a coincidence that you ca n't pronounce her character 's name without " appeal " .
now we 're in the nineties .
steed
( now - ralph fiennes ) and peel ( now - uma thurman ) are battling evil genius sir august de wynter ( sean connery ) who is screwing with england 's weather .
that 's about as much of a plot as we have .
there 's some footage about a lot of other things that either do n't make sense or make even less sense
.
we get betrayal for some unknown reason .
evil clones appear and vanish and have no connection to the film
. remarkably ineffective giant flying robot wasps with machine guns in their belly come from nowhere for no good reason .
there 's a high tech hot air balloon , but i have no idea why anyone 's in it .
the spy agency is run by a man called " mother " who is in a wheelchair and a woman named " father " who is blind . . . at least in some scenes .
there 's probably a reason for all of this , but we 'll never know it
.
macnee makes an appearance of sorts .
he is the voice for an invisible man whose character goes nowhere in a scene that does nothing .
a group of villains sits around a table , all clad in huge pastel - colored teddy bear outfits .
at first it 's humorous to watch the teddies waddle around , but
then it becomes goofy .
the movie is a medley of clutter , confusion and wrong decisions around every corner .
it feels like major portions of the film are missing .
the storyline jumps rather than flows .
reportedly the film was re - cut several times .
this is one of those times where the whole is less than the sum of the parts especially since some of the parts appear to be missing .
there 's one good point where peel is running from one room to another in a house designed by escher .
other than that ,
the effects are second - rate .
the weather threat is old hat as are the scenes of huge tornadoes .
thurman almost makes an adequate emma peel but it does n't work .
she looks good , dresses in all the right fetish outfits
but there 's no spark .
fiennes fares even less well
.
macnee 's steed was a witty man of the world with a sense of humor .
fiennes ' agent comes across as a dour kid in grown - up clothes who has never been out of his home town .
even connery , one of the greatest living actors , does n't have much of a presence outside of a few fiery scenes .
the action scenes are difficult to follow .
director jeremiah chechik ( responsible for the atrocious remake of " diabolique " ) somehow manages to put the camera exactly where it should n't be .
things happen , people move around , but even if , with the utmost effort , you were able to care about any of it , the scenes are bewildering .
the primary allure of the original was the interaction between the two leads .
witty banter and an underplayed sexual tension were a winning combination .
admittedly there are a few humorous sexual puns in the film , but there 's no chemistry and the repartee is anything but clever .
one of emma peel 's first lines of dialog is " rules are made to be broken .
"
it does n't get any better .
advance word alone should have been enough to scare off anyone .
the release date was changed several times .
connery refuses to promote the film .
there was no screening for critics which may have been a good choice for warner brothers .
at least this way , they get something of an audience for the first weekend before the news gets out .
admittedly i have n't seen an episode of the television series for a couple of decades .
my guess is that it would be severely dated now .
no matter how antiquated it might be , there 's no doubt that it holds up better than this film is at first viewing .
there 's no reason to waste any part of the last few days of summer inside watching this movie .
no reason at all .
[EX A]:
N