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

[EX Q]: jet li busted onto the american action movie scene , when he stole the show in 1998 's lethal weapon 4 , with his wicked looks , his nasty moves and his undeniable charisma .
it only took another two years for mega - producer joel silver to set him up in an all - american movie , primed to take over some of the empty action - hero seats left by alleged coke - head van damme and that pudgy guy named steven seagal .
would this film take li past his rival asian action counterparts , namely chow yun - fat and jackie chan ?
let 's find out .
plot : rival chinese and black gangster organizations fall further out of favor from one another , when members of their respective families start turning up dead .
that 's when badass jet li blasts into the picture to find out who the men were behind his brother 's death and to exact some of his own style of revenge .
critique : three words : not enough action !
simple enough ? not enough hong kong kickass jet li action to compensate for a horribly predictable screenplay , bad actors , crappy dialogue and oh - so many over - the - top melodramatic moments . and a romance angle ?
why , one must ask . . .
why ?
i love fight scenes and i really dig jet li too , but this little ditty barely contained three memorable action sequences , and jet , well , the poor dude was barely in the movie .
and i thought this was supposed to be his big break ?
how 'bout giving the slickster some more opportunities to show us his kung - fu fighting chops , slap him in a few more scenes , and give him more chances to practice his acting / english abilities ?
what a letdown .
even black mask was more entertaining than this glossed up , empty shell of a film .
in fact , i am sure that more time was spent gathering the " hits " for the soundtrack of this film , than were on the so - called " screenplay " .
i felt like i was watching a soundtrack rather than a movie most of the time .
the sad part about the bad script is that it would n't matter so much if the film actually had some decent actors spouting out the tacky lines .
but no , save lindo and aaliyah , who were n't too shabby , i thought the rest of the cast was picked primarily from their inability to deliver lines convincingly .
and what was the deal with the whole nfl franchise deal run by some 15-year old looking guy , acting like he 's the overlord of a drug ring ? !
what a mess .
then again , i do n't want it to seem like i 'm complaining solely about the story which was completely foreseeable , since we all go to see these movies for the action anyway , not the story .
well , i guess that 's what disappointed me the most out of this film .
there were a couple of cool fight scenes with li , but simply not enough to satisfy my overall craving .
also , as much as i love the way they incorporate wires and special effects in some of their stunts , a couple of the exaggerated fight scenes were simply too obvious a stunt .
it should be seamless , fellas , not necessarily against the laws of gravity !
the one cool thing that was original in the movie was the way in which the director showed us some of the inside cracklings of the human body when penetrated by a blow , but that simple creative touch could n't save the rest of this film 's uninteresting plot movements .
i 'm disappointed for jet li that this film did n't give him the real opportunity to star in a good story with many great action scenes .
hopefully , the next time will be a charm for this charismatic actor .
for now , i just hope that for his sake , the film 's title is n't a premonition of the movie 's ultimate fate at the box - office .
[EX A]: N

[EX Q]: paul verhoeven , the dutch auteur who dragged his violent , sexually aggressive aesthetic into american film , has never been what i 'd consider a thoughtful director ( though some of his films , notably starship troopers , have been lauded as artistic achievements ) , but he is the kind of hollywood film maker who 's managed to , no matter what the budget , make his films distinctive and even sometimes smuggle stimulating themes into the lavish high concepts on which he toils .
starship troopers was essentially a b - monster movie remake of his enthralling dutch war film soldier of orange ( a great film that 's nearly impossible to find on video , yet showgirls is everywhere ) , in which he cast a troop of stunningly attractive mannequins ; the square jawed casper van dien and denise richards ( who may actually be 45 % silicone ) , in what feels like an american propaganda picture set to monotonous scenes of graphic carnage .
it 's not a completely successful film , but
as a failure
it 's certainly an interesting ( and mostly entertaining ) one .
my favorite verhoeven films were the ones he made before he hit our shores ; spetters , a dark near pornographic coming of age film set within the sub - culture of drag racing and the aforementioned soldier of orange ( have n't yet gotten around to seeing the 4th man or turkish delight ) .
i believe his best hollywood film to be robocop , a bleak super - hero satire with a robotic hero that 's as touching as schwarzenegger 's in t2 .
that movie was violent but not in the overdone cartoonish manner of more recent verhoeven pics .
its violence seemed to be there for a purpose , namely to create an atmosphere of unpredictable dread , not to simply titillate an attention deprived audience .
there 's a jaw - dropping scene within the first ten minutes of robocop wherein the lead villain toys with a cop before snuffing him .
he tortures the officer by taking glee in his victim 's every fearful tic .
it 's a startling moment of barbaric , maddening violence that effectively sets the tone for the film that could be designated as splatter punk - noir .
in hollow man kevin bacon brutally slays a dog because it just wo n't shut up , he impales a co - worker , drowns another and so on .
but why ?
his character is introduced as a smug genius , the kind who 's always impeccably dressed and races a sports car while generic rock tunes blare from his stereo for the world to hear , sort of like a scheming uber villain from dallas or melrose place , though once the character becomes invisible , this film has him pull a 180 shift into a psychotic movie monster .
the kind who just wo n't die .
hollow man 's protagonists are the completely bland but beautiful scientist linda ( elizabeth shue , acting as if she were rebecca of sunnybrook farm ) and her lover , a hunk of beef scientist played by josh brolin who 's saddled with the film 's worst lines
( " i 've lost cohesion again ! " ) .
they 're a typical aaron spelling couple , good - looking but as vacant as george
w .
bush 's republican national convention speech ( i .
e .
bush referring to clinton ; " ? ?
?
so much promise ? ? ?
but to what end ?
to what end ?
"
-- this actually got applause !
suddenly warren beatty does n't look so absurd ) .
the rest of the film 's characters are all well past thirty , though act like annoying high school party animals insulting one and other with a series of strained one - liners
; is it just me or have
labored insults become big budget hollywood 's new character developing technique ?
ahh , what a cynical time we live in ? ? ?
as the picture opens we meet cain ( kevin bacon ) , an egocentric scientist working with the crew of aforementioned irritating scientists on a top secret ( so top secret the government has only provided them with a dilapidated warehouse in which to perform their extensive experimentation 's ) project with the goal to make invisibility a possibility ( for what purpose is never hinted at ) .
they 've performed several experiments on animals and have nearly solved the quandary causing caine , in a twist worthy of the film 's 1950 's late show origins , to impulsively experiment on himself .
caine neglects to let the pentagon in on his plans and somehow gets two of his co - workers to lie for him
so the rest of the crew will think the pentagon gave the go ahead .
our mad scientist is turned invisible ( after several fx - heavy complications ) , then he inexplicably
( it 's hinted that the process of invisibility has made the animals into more savage creatures , but this is never explored , and if that was the case why the hell would anyone be stupid enough to test this out on a human ? ) begins raping , assaulting and murdering anyone he pleases , always with a lame wisecrack ready a la freddy krueger .
it grows abundantly clear with each new release that it 's verhoeven 's films that have become hollow .
like the rest , this one is cold , heartless , and full of contempt for humanity , but in addition to all that it lacks any trace of wit , insight and makes no statement other than " audiences will pay for anything these days " .
it 's an affront to anyone looking for something stimulating on an intellectual level , or even those hoping to spend a saturday night with a fun , thrill - a - minute ride .
verhoeven has instead served up an utterly routine mad slasher flick with nobody to root for and no reason to care .
the previews make hollow man look like an irresistible flick .
how can one not have a good time at a film that utilizes state of the art fx to illustrate an invisible man getting down and dirty with his bad self ?
a couple weeks ago , after seeing the trailer , a bunch of friends and i got into a long discussion of how invisible man flicks never go so far as to have the invisible individual indulging in their newfound ability .
hollow man looked like the first film to do so and whoa , in a serious manner to boot .
but oh yeah , it is directed by paul verhoven not atom egoyan or peter greenway .
verhoeven delivers the sleazy " goods " , but not in a watchable or thrillingly disturbing manner , here
it just feels icky and uncomfortable .
the director keeps his camera trained at his nubile actresses , caressing their breasts with his lens all while faux - psycho music strains in the background .
it 's plainly obvious that verhoeven is n't exploring voyeurism ( like in the classic peeping tom ) but exploiting it and not even doing that very well .
it 's funny that with all the technology $ 90 million can get you verhoven is stuck at trying to figure out how to show a woman 's naked breast manipulated by an invisible hand .
most vexing is that the invisibility aspect is used simply as gimmick in yet another slasher movie wherein characters do stupid things just so the villain can pop up for more attacks .
in fact it 's largely irrelevant that bacon is invisible since , by the end , most of his potential victims don infer - red glasses that track his body heat .
as in every mad slasher film we get the killers pov ( a scene where he spies on his neighbor while she undresses triggered unpleasant memories of slumber party massacre ) , and lots of scenes where people are unknowingly stalked .
the film only provides one moment that i found genuinely creepy .
it happens when a lab assistant ( kim dickens , who looks like she stepped out of playboy ) in the middle of a chit chat with an invisible bacon , suddenly pauses .
"
are you looking at me ? " , she queries , obviously haunted .
it 's a little moment in a big film with nothing to offer but
ground breaking special effects set to a plot that should have run its course by 1982 ( the apex of the mad slasher craze ) .
those special effects are so stunning they alone keep this from being as bad as urban legend or i still know what you did last summer .
and they 're the only reason to check out hollow man , preferably as a mid - week bargain rental .
you 've been warned .
but you probably wo n't listen , will you ?
tis ' a pity ? ? ?
[EX A]: N

[EX Q]: it is an understood passion and an understood calm .
bud white walks into the home of lynn bracken , a prostitute " cut to look like veronica lake .
"
he 's one of l .
a . 's
finest investigating the murder of fellow cop , and one of the leads takes him to her home .
it 's understood that he is quiet thunder , a guy who 's calm voice is more powerful than his arms .
it 's understood that she 's supposed to be beautiful , but underneath her face is pain and scraped out lines that say her life could have been so much more .
you know without having to be told .
"
you 're the first guy who has n't told me i look like veronicca lake in under a minute , " she says .
"
you look ten times better .
"
he says it without thinking .
like he knows without her having to say anything .
white 's face does n't turn , it does n't blush .
you see his eyes , and you believe him .
it 's a perfect moment in a near perfect movie .
l .
a . confidential is the best movie of the year .
it is grace and poetry ; a richly layered work of pure entertainment .
it is a portrait of police and morality as it works it 's way through characters that are so real on screen that you believe that they might have a soul .
in a phrase , it is everything .
it is funny , it is exciting , has enough action and adventure and mystery and grace and suspense .
it is the pinnacle of a movie , a complete work , a flawless film .
it 's hard to tell you about the plot , because it 's about so much more than plot .
besides , there 's too much to describe .
sure , it 's about police and searching for corruption and who fights for the right reasons and the definition of justice .
but it 's also about what you feel when you look into the eyes of the characters in the film .
director curtis hanson has perfectly framed each character , letting you see into them , rooting for them one moment , doubting them the next .
the actors work with their lines , but in this movie their most important weapon is their eyes .
you can tell what each person is feeling just by looking into their eyes for one moment .
russell crowe plays bud white , a muscle cop with a beef for wife beaters .
his movements are fierce .
when he strikes , you jump , when he 's calm , you know it wo n't be for long .
his intensity oozes out of the screen .
you follow his character through the movie afraid of him , but in sympathy of him , because you know how good his heart is .
he 's looking for a way to solve crimes , you 're just never sure how he 's going to do it .
his counter is ed exley , played with a chisselled face by guy pierce .
you feel for him , for his character , because of all the cops in the movie he 's the one that 's actually trying to do the right thing by going by the book .
you know that he must face the reality of breaking the book , and you love the way he gets there .
i 've seen l .
a confidential twice , immediately after it was over , i wanted to hit the rewind button and watch it again .
i did n't want the theater experience to end .
it 's been a long time since i actually experienced a movie , feeling like i got something after i walked out .
that 's why i love movies ; the great ones can be too rich and powerful to describe .
watch l .
a . confidential : after you leave the theater , you feel like you just watched a classic movie
.
that 's why la confidential stands as the best movie of the year .
l .
a . confidential ( directed by curtis hanson .
starring russell crowe , guy pierce , kevin spacey , james cromwell , and kim basinger .
[EX A]:
P