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

[EX Q]: another ' independent film ' , this comedy , which was brought by miramax for $ 5 million , is good fun
.
favreau and vaughn
( the lost world : jurassic park , 1997 ) play mike and trent , two everyday 20somethings on the lookout for women .
the film just basically follows their plight on the lookout for lurve , and along the way we get to meet some of their friends , see their attempts at chatting up girls , and just basically get a insight into their lives .
and all of this is great fun .
swingers does n't rely on huge special effects , or big name stars to provide entertainment .
no , it just has a great script and superb little known actors .
the script , by favreau , is great .
mike is always missing is girlfriend , who has n't called him for six months , and every time he meets a girl , he always end up telling her about the ex .
the audience feels for this pathetic little man , thanks to the great script .
vaughn is ' the money ' ( swingers speak for ' the best ' ) as the womanizing trent , always on the lookout for a new girl .
some of his chat - up lines are awful , but he always seems to get the girl thanks to his ' hard man ' nature .
vaughns character also gets the best laugh in the film , towards the end in a diner .
the conversations that go on between mike and trent are great , but it never quite reaches tarantino standards ( which i suspect the film was trying to reach . )
there are some excellent , laugh out loud jokes in the film , and some superbly funny set pieces ( such as favreau cringe - worhy battle with a answer machine that always cut him off before he finishes his sentence .
embarrassing to him , hilarious to the audience . )
mike & trents friends are also good , although there characters seem a bit underwritten , and we never really learn as much as we would like about them .
although this is primarily mike and trents film , it would of been nice to learn a bit more about their friends .
they just seem to wander aimlessly in the background .
but again , the lines they say are usually pretty good , and they do have some funny parts .
it 's just a shame that they did n't have more meatier roles .
the acting is superb .
as said above , vaughn is superb as trent , he 's definitely the best thing in the film .
favreau is also good , acting as ' the little man ' very well , and the way he always feels sorry for himself is very funny .
graham ( boogie nights , 1997 ) has a small but good role as lorraine , a girl mike finally falls in love with .
she hardly features in the film at all , but she still manages to make an impact on the audience .
swingers , then , is funny , but it does have some flaws .
firstly , the running time is a bit too short .
the film comes to an abrupt halt , and i actually wanted the film to carry on longer .
it never really comes to a satisfying conclusion , which is a shame , as most films are too long !
also , this type of film has been done too many times , such as sleep with me ( 1994 ) .
but these small flaws do n't really spoil what is a funny , entertaining comedy .
[EX A]: P

[EX Q]: any remake of an alfred hitchcock film is at best an uncertain project , as a perfect murder illustrates .
frankly , dial m for murder is not one of the master director 's greatest efforts , so there is ample room for improvement .
unfortunately , instead of updating the script , ironing out some of the faults , and speeding up the pace a little , a perfect murder has inexplicably managed to eliminate almost everything that was worthwhile about dial m for murder , leaving behind the nearly- unwatchable wreckage of a would - be ' 90s thriller .
almost all suspense films are loaded with plot implausibilities .
the best thrillers keep viewers involved enough in what 's going on so that these flaws in logic do n't become apparent until long after the final credits have rolled .
unfortunately , in a perfect murder , the faults are often so overt that we become aware of them as they 're happening .
this is a very bad sign .
not only do such occurrences shatter any suspension of disbelief , but they have the astute viewer looking for the next such blunder .
of course , in the case of a perfect murder , at least that gives an audience member something to do besides concentrating on the inane plot and the lifeless , cardboard characters .
a perfect murder is n't a strict remake of dial m for murder , but it does borrow heavily from frederick knott 's play ( which was also the source material for hitchcock 's version , as well as a 1981 made - for - tv retelling ) .
emily hayes ( gwyneth paltrow ) is the wealthy wife of powerful wall street mover - and - shaker steven hayes ( michael douglas ) .
their marriage is n't going well -- emily resents steven 's controlling instincts , and , as a form of rebellion , she is having an affair with a penniless painter , david shaw ( viggo mortensen ) .
when steven learns of the relationship , he decides to confront david , but his approach is n't that of a typical cuckolded husband .
instead of yelling or threatening , steven offers david a proposal that 's too good to resist : for $ 500 , 000 in cash ( $ 100 , 000 before , the rest after ) , he is to break into steven 's new york apartment and kill emily .
( of course , after getting the first payment , david never bothers to ask how he 's supposed to get the rest . )
ultimately , i 'm not sure which of the three main characters we 're supposed to be sympathetic to : the cold - hearted husband , who wants his wife dead so he can get his hands on her fortune ; her mercenary lover , who is willing to do the deed for half - a - million ; or the woman , who is happily carrying on an extramarital affair .
not only are these individuals all profoundly dislikable , but they 're not interesting .
( it 's possible to make a good movie with detestable characters -- see reservoir dogs -- but there has to be something compelling about them , which , in this case , there is n't . )
steven , emily , and david are all lifted directly from the screenwriting 101 text book on stereotypes .
the actors in this film are obviously just on hand to get their paychecks .
michael douglas is playing the kind of heartless tycoon that he can do in his sleep -- he 's gordon gekko with an unfaithful wife .
gwyneth paltrow , who was recently delightful and appealing in sliding doors , is simply awful here .
she now has the dubious distinction of have starred in two of 1998 's worst thrillers ( the other being hush ) .
at least viggo mortensen ( g .
i .
jane ) has a little fun with his part , but then he usually does interesting things even in bad movies .
the thin supporting cast includes david suchet , the star of " poirot , " as a police inspector , and sarita choudhury ( kama sutra ) as emily 's best friend .
a perfect murder is a plodding production that generates almost no suspense from beginning to end .
there are n't many twists and turns in the unexpectedly linear script , which makes the ending inevitable almost from the start .
it 's surprising to see director andrew davis , the man behind the fugitive , involved in this mess
, but , like his stars , he too needs to earn a living .
it 's just that remaking hitchcock , and doing it so badly
, hardly seems to be an honorable way to go about getting the dough .
[EX A]: N

[EX Q]: if you had a chance to create a genetically perfect child , would you do it ?
" gattaca " is a film which presents a future where society has answered " yes " to this question , but then ponders if this was actually the right decision .
" gattaca " came out only a couple months following the first genetically engineered creature , the lovable dolly the sheep , and with this in mind , the film only becomes more frightening .
the way the realm of genetics is heading , it may only take a couple decades until the future " gattaca " presents becomes true .
contrary to the misleading trailers , " gattaca " is not a sci - fi thriller , in the way that there 's lots of murder , hitchcockian suspense , and chase scenes .
this is a quiet , sad film about intelligent theories .
in fact , the film seems like it would have been written by george orwell or aldous huxley ( the latter who 's novel " brave new world "
featured genetically engineered children ) .
it 's a film that may likely become a cult hit to people who are frightened by a promise of shallow utopia , which is exactly what " gattaca " presents . .
.
and the main reason
i dug it so much .
the story revolves around the genetically insufficient vincent freeman ( ethan hawke ) , a man with high hopes but a 90 % chance of heart problems , and a prospected life span of around 30 years .
as a child , he was put down because of the threats of genetics , while his younger genetically perfect brother , anton ( loren dean ) , was promised whatever his heart desired .
vincent yearns to be an astronaut , but when he gets a job at a giant space company , it 's as a janitor ( ernest borgnine plays his boss ! ) .
but one day , he finds out that it 's probably possible that his desires can come true in the form of a business deal brought out by a black market geneticist ( or something ) , german ( " wings " ' tony shalhoub , who did like hundreds of cameos in films back in ' 97 : " men in black , " " a life less ordinary " . . . ) , who 's client is a genetically perfect man , jerome morrow ( jude law ) , who has unfortunately been crippled .
fortunately , though , there 's no record of the accident , and he 's willing to give someone else his life .
since vincent looks a bit like him . . .
after a couple alterations ( some minor , some really major ) , he has donned the life of jerome , and is doing his job .
there , he meets a genetically imperfect woman , irene ( uma thurman , who 's genetically perfect in real life anyway , hee hee ) , and the two begin a kind of relationship , albeit a very shallow one since romance is deemed by how great a man 's stats are .
however , a murder of a high - level worker at his office is killed , and one of vincent / jerome 's eyelashes is found by the anal retentive investigators headed by a semi - wily inspector , hugo , ( alan arkin ) , and none other than vincent 's long lost brother , anton , who has n't seen him since they were teenagers .
we know vincent
/ jerome did n't do it , but with his older picture being posted everywhere , not only vincent / jerome 's in trouble , but also the real jerome , who 's as much in it as he is .
however , there is n't many big suspense set pieces , which is actually a blessing because if they were tossed in , the film would lose
it 's message and descend into just being a sci - fi thriller
a la william gibson .
the suspense in the film comes from the idea that vincent and jerome can easily be captured just by dropping a hair or dead skin .
while there are several scenes which are pretty frightening , there are no big distractions from the point of the film , much to the dismay of commercial audiences .
what is actually portrayed is the lack of life in the utopian society that is created .
irene has no real spunk in her life , and is rather amazed by the sheer beauty of a sunrise rather than genetically perfect people .
and the genetically flawless jerome is in actuality a bitter man , claiming that his accident was really no accident .
what jerome has done is fool the system in giving a man who yearns for better things a chance at that , and the ending is shocking as it 's a definite work of dystopian propaganda , but does n't have the down ending of other works of this kind .
the production design of this film is
probably the best i 've seen this year
: it 's stunning , very pleasing to the eye , but still very cold .
since genetics has ruled out any chance of improvement , the world has cooled into a state of inhumanity , and the sets echo a sense of shallow misery .
and the sequence of all the high - level workers doing their jobs has a kind of gilliam - esque feel to it , showing the nightmare of slipping into a routine zombie - like life .
the ability to perfect people has left humanity cold and generally unhappy .
the acting from everyone is great , with thurman giving a wonderfully cold performance , and hawke creating a character who has been beaten down by the system but has found a new sense of optimism by a bitter man who was willing to give it out anyway ( interesting pointless fact :
uma and ethan started dating after this film , and currently she is pregnant with his child ) .
but the best performance belongs to jude law , who steals every scene
he 's in , and creates a character filled with the pessimism over having such a horrible burden placed on his burden .
i think that people are generally tempted by the fact that genetics can actually create perfection in a child , but whether or not they would actually act on this temptation is something i 'm not sure of .
" gattaca " warns us not to go any farther , chiefly because we 'll create a world of elitism where the elite are shallow and unhappy , and as bitter and angry as the lesser people are .
and when i see a possible future featuring a 12-fingered piano player , well folks , that just creeps me out .
[EX A]:
P