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In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
question:
ingredients :
neophyte lawyer , legal situations , corrupt insurance company , synopsis : rudy baylor ( matt damon ) is an ethical kid fresh out of law school who must juggle three legal situations at the same time .
rudy 's girlfriend is attacked by her violent husband ; rudy 's elderly landlady wants to arrange her will so that her children are excluded , and ; the family of rudy 's friend with leukemia is suing the corrupt insurance company that would n't pay for a bone marrow transplant .
rudy is new to being a lawyer and is thoroughly outgunned , but luckily he is aided by a sleazy ambulance chaser ( danny devito ) who has failed the bar exam six times as well as by the kindly presiding judge ( danny glover ) .
jon voight plays leo
f .
drummond , the intimidating and arrogant leader of the all - powerful insurance company 's team of lawyers who will do anything to oppose justice .
will rudy defeat leo ?
will he enjoy being a lawyer ?
opinion :
the good news is that this movie has a happy ending , and it features a guy trying to do the right thing .
director francis ford coppola does this film a little differently than the stereotypical law movie .
in the typical lawyer movie there 's one big case and the movie focuses on solving it , and somewhere along the line surprise witnesses and motives turn up before the good guy wins ( after lots of gripping courtroom drama ) .
however , coppola 's movie is deliberately more low key . ' the rainmaker ' plays out like a personality sketch of young rudy as he gets emotionally involved with and tries to save various little quirky side characters .
in the background rudy 's voice narrates his feelings and makes half - cynical jokes about the legal profession in general .
two factors combine to make this movie less heavy than it can be .
first , rudy 's time is split juggling three cases , rather than concentrating on a single high - stakes case .
also , rudy 's use of voice narration in place of acting makes the film lose some of its dramatic edge .
the end result is an entertaining low key law movie where the good guys win , and rudy narrates his way into coming of age .
answer:
P


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you always have to be careful with the first official studio release out of the gate each year .
they 're obviously films for which the studios have no great hopes ( having missed both the deadline for academy award eligibility and the big box - office holiday season ) .
combine that with howie long 's first starring action role , and
you 've got a doozy of a movie
that , while not as bad as it could have been , is n't a very good film .
howie stars as an ace smokejumper ( a firefighter who parachutes into forest fires unreachable from the ground ) .
in the slightly contrived opening scenes , we witness his heroism in action , as he , and his mentor ( played by scott glenn ) attempt to rescue a small girl and her dog from an oncoming forest fire .
william forsythe plays the bad guy , a mass murderer who has several million dollars tucked away to help fund his jailbreak .
he ( and five convict cohorts ) manages to get selected for firefighting duty when a woodland blaze just happens to ignite nearby .
his escape plan bets a lot on the laxity of the guards , but ( since there must be a movie )
luck is with him .
soon the now - escaped convicts are masquerading as canadian firefighters .
why canadian ? who knows , eh ? along the way they pick up a pretty birdwatcher ( suzy amis ) to be their hostage .
enter howie long .
he 's called in to help fight the blaze , and when he spots the group of " ground pounders " , apparently lost , he parachutes in to help .
when he discovers their true identity , he is the only thing standing between them and escape , and the only hope of help for the hostage .
long 's acting talents are above those of , say , steven seagal , but not by much .
although his delivery is mostly flat and wooden
, he 's a likeable hero , and there are some hints here and there that he may get better .
the script does n't help him out any , however .
all too often , it veers into the realm of the unintentionally funny .
the dialogue is strictly b - movie material , and the plotting relies too heavily on coincidences to be believable .
long 's co - stars are a mixed bag .
at least they 're all comfortable in their respective roles .
forsythe has the scenery - chewing villain down cold , down cold , and scott glenn is always enjoyable to watch , even when he does n't seem to be stretching his talents ( as is definitely the case here ) .
suzy amis plays peril pretty well , but is n't given much more to do .
some of the nature and wildfire shots are interesting , but many are rather bland .
you 'd think that the director , dean semler , a former cinematographer , would at least produce a film with interesting visuals .
that 's not the case .
there 's a lack of originality to nearly all the sequences .
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we 've seen this stuff before .
it 's not the most auspicious start to 1998 , but it could have been worse ( just think back to 1996 's debut , bio - dome ) .
however , after a month of oscar - caliber pictures , a movie like firestorm at least gives you some perspective on how good those movies really were .
in fact , there 's a good chance that some of them are still playing near you . . .
answer:
N


question:
susan granger 's review of " the closet " ( miramax films ) in this hilarious french farce , a shy , boring accountant ( daniel auteil ) named francois pignon discovers
he 's going to be fired from his job at a condom factory .
lonely and distraught , he contemplates suicide .
but then he runs into belone ( michel aumont ) , an elderly homosexual neighbor , who suggests a " sex discrimination " lawsuit to intimidate management .
as evidence , belone concocts provocative photographs of pignon locked in a leather - clad embrace with another man and mails them anonymously to pignon 's boss .
when the racy snapshots start circulating around the factory , not only does pignon get his job back
but he suddenly finds himself the focus of attention as an openly gay man .
his lusty supervisor ( michele laroque ) is so intrigued that she wonders if , perhaps , she could change his sexual preferences .
even his ex - wife ( alexandra vandernoot ) and indifferent teenage son ( stanislas crevillen ) drop their disdain .
but not everyone is enchanted .
a mucho macho co - worker felix ( gerard depardieu ) , a self - righteous homophobe , is stunned and repulsed when he 's forced by the pr director ( thierry lhermite ) to grovel and court pignon 's friendship or risk losing his own job .
writer / director francis verber artfully milks the farcical comedy as he dissects the hypocrisy of political correctness , veering off - track only occasionally into pedophilia .
daniel auteuil (
" the widow of saint - pierre " ) is delightful - particularly with a blown - up condom perched on his head , riding on a float in a gay pride parade - and gerard depardieu delivers one of his most restrained , and effective , performances .
on the granger movie gauge of 1 to 10 , " the closet " is a frankly sexual , adult 8 .
it 's so clever
, in fact , that hollywood is already planning to re - make it in english , like " la cage aux folles .
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answer:

P