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

[Q]: here i sit at my computer about to write my review of the recent action comedy " bait " starring jamie foxx and david morse .
this is a review i do n't even want to write because i 'd just be laying the same criticisms on it that i would with any other so - generic - and - predictable - it's - beyond - ridiculous piece of hollywood fluff
.
if they 're not going to give us , the audience , just a little credit and put something together with half a brain , why should i waste my time and mental energy criticising it ?
last summer i took this same approach with my review of " the mummy , " in that review i just quoted phrases my reviews of other sub - par movies .
i think i shall do the same thing here but with a few less quotes ( not all are applicable ) .
i hope this goes to show you what i think of " bait " and why you can find out all you need to know about it without having to take a wild guess .
it 's genuinely unfunny
( i , and the other audience members only laughed once during the entire two hours ) , unoriginal and unthrilling .
it 's not so bad to the point where it 's fun to watch because of its badness
and it 's no so bad you absolute
loathe it and are pained by watching it
, it 's just such a cliche in and of itself , that , uhh . . .
lost my train of thought .
anyways , here 's those quotes , enjoy !
" getting an audience 's attention right from the beginning plays a major role in how today 's films work .
we want to have something exciting to watch , not a slow build - up of a story ( god forbid ! ) , and this film plays right into the mainstream 's hands . . .
" - review of " armageddon .
"
" it 's clear the film does n't want to waste time on reality and thus the attempt to establish plausability ( the most minimal amount necessary ) comes across as a half - assed effort
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supporting characters and shady sup - plots are introduced , but as is the case with films made up of a large cast of characters , only a handful have any real significance . . .
there 's a fine line separating homage from plagiarism . . . , " - review of " godzilla " ( 1998 )
" unfortunately , as is the case with most modern thrillers , once the film showed potential for authenticity and intelligence , the cliches and action sequences take over , " - review of " the jackal .
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[A]: N


[Q]: i wish more films would take on issues of faith and morality in the modern world .
and i wish that film - makers would use commandments as a blueprint on how _ not _ to do it .
writer / director daniel taplitz has created a bizarre conglomeration of satire and soul - searching in this tale of seth warner ( aidan quinn ) , a man of faith who runs into a streak of bad luck which usually inspires country - western lyrics : his pregnant wife drowns , his home is destroyed by a tornado , he loses his job and his dog is crippled by a bolt of lightning .
convinced that god has broken his half of the covenant , seth decides to break his , and sets out to turn every " thou shalt not " of the ten commandments into a " thou shalt " ( and vice versa ) .
his wife 's sister rachel ( " friends " ' courteney cox ) wants to help seth ; rachel 's selfish husband harry ( anthony lapaglia ) , who tends to break a few commandments of his own , thinks seth is a lunatic .
thus begins a film which picks the wrong tone for every occasion .
taplitz is n't interested in treating seth 's tragedies as genuinely tragic , making it impossible to sympathize with him .
composer joseph vitarelli provides a score full of whimsical woodwinds , turning seth 's sacrilegious mission into an amusing lark ; quinn 's performance as seth is all wild - eyed fervor without any genuine pain .
the actual breaking of the commandments is almost treated as an afterthought , with one through five dispatched in a five - minute montage .
the result is a character whose actions feel less like the authentic responses of an anguished man than the machinations of a high - concept movie plot .
it 's not even entirely clear that commandments is about seth .
corporate attorney rachel is given a case which is supposed to soften a hard heart we see no indication she has , while harry gets his comeuppance as part of seth 's " false witness .
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only courteney cox strikes a note of reality in a solid performance ; she is sane center around which too equally troubled men revolve .
even she ca n't force taplitz to decide whose story this is , or what we should have learned about dealing with the struggles in our lives and our relationship with the infinite .
by the time seth makes a singularly biblical reappearance late in the film , it has become clear that taplitz is aiming for a fantastical fable which makes no connection with real human experience .
commandments is a bad comedy which could have been a decent drama if daniel taplitz had had the guts to take faith -- and the loss thereof -- at all seriously .
[A]: N


[Q]: wild things is a way to steam up an otherwise dreary early spring day ?
provided , of course , that you 're the victim of a frontal lobotomy .
there is , in fact , no doubt about who this motion picture is aimed at : movie - goers in their late teens and early twenties -- the most lucrative target group .
this is film noir for the mtv generation : fast - paced , slick , flashy , gleefully mindless , and hollow to the core .
wild things is easily one of the five dumbest movies to arrive in theaters during the first eleven weeks of 1998 .
i 've seen more convincing drama ( with nearly as much bare flesh ) on that pinnacle of narrative quality , baywatch .
wild things wants to dupe viewers into thinking it 's a thriller with a real story .
what it is , however , is a series of increasingly- improbable and shockingly predictable plot twists .
everything in between those serpentine moments is filler -- a flash of a breast , a spatter of blood , and some of the most idiotic dialogue this side of a steven seagal movie .
the film tries so hard to surprise its audience that the twists end up being easy to guess -- just take a stab at the most unlikely thing to happen , and that will probably be it . using this approach , i was right three times and wrong only once .
that 's not a good average for a production that wants to keep viewers in the dark about what 's around the next corner .
the ad campaign uses two things to sell this movie : the hot , young cast and the old standby , sex .
both have an abundance of screen time , although i 'll admit that the film 's erotic content is somewhat less impressive than i expected .
nothing about wild things is exceptionally risqu ? .
the soft - core sex sequences are generic , and do n't generate much heat .
the lesbian kisses ca n't hold a candle to those in bound .
theresa russell and denise richards have only token topless appearances ( neve campbell , possessing an iron - clad " no nudity " clause in her contract , keeps her clothes more or less on ) .
the film 's greatest curiosity is a full frontal shot of kevin bacon climbing out of the shower .
maybe a few girls will skip seeing a fully - clothed leonardo dicaprio for the thirteenth time in titanic to catch a glimpse of what kyra sedgwick ( mrs .
kevin bacon ) is familiar with .
the director of wild things is john mcnaughton , whose last effort was the finely - tuned psychological thriller , normal life .
that movie featured copious sex , a pair of real characters , and a powerful script .
it 's difficult to believe that something this shallow could come from the same film maker .
but i suppose we all need to put food on the table .
mcnaughton appears to have completely lost his way here , in what is obviously a stab at mainstream success ( his previous wide - release picture , mad dog and glory , was a box - office disappointment ) .
quick cuts and pretty sunrises ca n't even begin to cover up this movie 's flaws .
the main character ( and i use that term lightly , since no one in wild things shows more than an occasional flash of personality ) is sam lombardo ( matt dillon ) , a guidance counselor at florida 's blue bay high school .
a student , the deliciously curvaceous kelly van ryan ( denise richards ) , has a crush on him .
one afternoon , she comes to his house to wash his car , and , when she leaves , her clothing is torn .
after confessing to her mother ( theresa russell ) that she was raped , she goes to the police station , where she tells her story to detectives ray duquette ( kevin bacon ) and gloria perez ( daphne rubin - vega ) .
they are skeptical about here claims until another girl , suzie toller ( neve campbell ) , comes forward with a similar tale .
meanwhile , sam , convinced that he 's being set up , goes to a shyster lawyer ( bill murray ) for help .
the acting in wild things is n't very good , but none of the principals have much to work with .
this is definitely not a character- based motion picture .
not only does the ludicrous screenplay ignore the possibility that someone in the audience may have a triple - digit i .
q . , but
it does n't bother to give any of the on - screen individuals even a hint of depth .
the men and women populating the picture are there to look nice , but nothing more .
matt dillon is given plenty of opportunities to flex his biceps .
neve campbell gets to model the slutty look .
denise richards strikes a fetching pose in a see - through , one - piece bathing suit .
and nothing in the film gets a rise out of kevin bacon .
the only one who 's even remotely interesting is bill murray , and he seems to think he 's in comedy , not a thriller ( maybe he 's got the right idea ) .
columbia pictures has specifically requested that critics not reveal the film 's ending , which prompts the question : which ending
do they want kept secret ?
wild things has no less than three ( one occurs during the end credits , so stay seated ) , all of which are jaw - droppingly absurd --
a feat that joe eszterhas ( the writer of basic instinct and showgirls ) would be impressed by .
thanks
to jeffrey kimball 's polished , kinetic cinematography , wild things always looks great , and george s .
clinton 's score keeps it pulsing and throbbing .
but , no matter how shiny the superficial sheen is , this is still trash ,
and , like all garbage , it stinks .
[A]:
N