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

[Q]: the most popular trend of the last couple of years has been the twist ending .
watching one of these movies , everything seems to make sense until suddenly you are blown away by an unexpected surprise .
when the film ends , there is a moment of confusion , then recollection , then some more confusion , then possibly a second viewing for clarification .
this is a description of an ideal twist that perfects everything it sets out to do and more .
good surprises make movies fun to watch .
then there are the bad twists .
you either know what is going to happen ten minutes into the movie ( i 'm talking about you reindeer games ) or you did not guess the ending because it is so outrageously stupid
.
screwed perfectly suits the latter description .
what starts out as a dumb guilty pleasure which should be fun to mock with a group of friends ends with a complex finale with way too much going on .
by the writers of man on the moon and the people vs .
larry flynt , scott alexander and larry karaszewski leave milos forman behind and take a stab at film directing .
whoops .
screwed is an inane christmas carol gone berserk with few genuine laughs and many acting embarrassments
.
norm macdonald stars as willard filmore , a hard working chauffeur who just wants a little respect from his rich , old , insidious boss , miss crock ( elaine stritch ) .
when he overhears her plans to fire him on christmas day , willard is convinced by his best friend rusty ( dave chapelle ) to kidnap crock 's beloved dog and hold it for a ransom of one million dollars .
too excited to pay any attention , the hapless losers ' plan goes awry when the dog escapes and returns home .
now crock thinks willard has been kidnapped and the two friends , realizing they can make even more money , decide to stage the fake kidnapping .
of course , everything that could go wrong does .
the first forty - five minutes of screwed is harmless entertainment - a guilty pleasure that should be enjoyably bad .
but the convoluted script eventually builds into a disaster that is impossible to bear .
the more idiotic these characters get , the more reckless the script becomes
.
at one point , i wanted to get out of my seat and yell at these characters : " no , you idiot !
"
i 'm not just talking about willard and rusty , who were extremely annoying
, i 'm also talking about the cops in this film .
a monkey could have solved this case within an hour but these guys ( headed by murder one 's daniel benzali ) were just too clueless to forgive .
they give real cops bad names .
also poor danny devito apparently does not know how to turn down a role these days . looking almost identical to his penguin in batman : returns ,
every time he appeared on the screen i had to shake my head in disbelief .
he just did n't belong in this movie .
macdonald and chapelle are veterans at these kinds of movies but devito made the film much worse than it already was , gross out humor is certainly not his forte .
if you 're a fan of norm macdonald 's other chaotic comedy , dirty work , you might actually love this near - sequel .
otherwise , do n't get screwed out of your hard - earned money .
[A]: N


[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 .
[A]: N


[Q]: in the continuation of warner brother 's franchise , joel schumacher has successfully killed this cash cow .
what makes this film such a grand disappointment is the tremendous line up of talented people involved with the film .
avika goldsman 's screenplay is such a cluttered mess that there is no suspense built from one scene to another .
this coming on the heals of such a marvelously written project as " the client " is such a shock that it gives rise to thoughts that the latter film was a fluke .
situations are developed and executed with no thought of reason other that to get the characters from one point to another .
this is most glaringly brought to point by the appearance of alicia silverstone 's batgirl , who just happens to be alfred 's niece .
the story of dr .
victor freeze is told almost completely in dialogue as an afterthought .
while working on a cure for a tragic decease contracted by his wife , dr . freeze is injured during a cryogenic procedure , and becomes a man who can only survive in a sub zero environment .
now of course he has become a terrorist intent on turning the world into a frozen planet where only he can live .
now the logic of that little sub - plot escapes me .
if mr .
freeze wanted to find a cure for his wife and bring her back from the brink of death , why would he want to have her live in a world with no warmth .
this is indeed a cold hearted man .
the development of poison ivy is no less contradictory .
she wants to breed a form of plant life that can defend itself like an animal .
she joins with mr .
freeze in his plan to start a new ice age , destroying all animal life , therefore giving her plant creations no reason to have the defense mechanism she had been trying to breed into them .
the characters have no logic .
batman of course is no longer the dark knight of the earlier films .
now that he has an adoptive son in burt ward / robin , bruce wayne is trying to be a father figure , constantly spouting out homilies about family and relationships , while at the same time not really having any .
george clooney tries in vain to keep from rolling his eyes while reciting the dialogue given him .
to say that his performance is workman - like is to be generous .
his best performances are still on " e. r. " .
bruce wayne has the most unromantic evening with his girlfriend ( played by elle macpherson ) , that it brings into question bruce 's latent homosexuality .
there is no spark and no passion ( as there was for nicole kidman 's psychologist in " batman forever " ) between bruce and anyone other than alfred .
and even that relationship is very reserved .
robin comes off less charismatic that in the last film in the series .
now he 's just a spoiled kid .
in " batman forever " , burt ward wanted to be batman 's partner and friend .
now , robin is suffering from ego deficiency .
robin 's attraction for poison ivy is not believable , except for a boy around the age of 15 .
his later flirtation with batgirl smacks of incest , even though they are not related in a traditional sense .
chris o'donnell , once considered a rising star , successfully burns up on reentry with this performance .
his robin needs nothing more than a good spanking .
the less said about alicia silverstone 's performance the better .
this talented young actress reads her lines with all the aplomb of a dubbing actor for a godzilla film .
she was cast strictly for her commercial value and she knew it .
this brings us to the villains .
arnold scharzenegger walks through his part with all the concern of someone waiting for payday .
the most rediculous scene is during mr .
freeze 's imprisonment .
the guards are at least a foot taller that arnold and yet fall at his hand in one of the most unbelievable fights scenes caught on film .
it 's almost as ludicrous as seeing michael jackson as a gang member .
umu thurman struts and coos her way through her part , showing a growing discomfort with her sex symbol status .
her poison ivy has all the come hither sex appeal of may west in " sextette " ( 1978 ) .
the only performances worthy of notice are pat hingle and michael gough .
these two seasoned veterans carry their scenes with a dignity sorely lacking from the rest of the film . without going through the intricacies of the plot , there is one question that always comes to mind with this series ( except for the first " batman " ) , and that is how do these super villains manage to hire so many thugs only to abandon them at the final reel .
mr .
freeze is introduced with a team of hockey playing hoodlums that seem to have stepped out of an old kiss music video .
every villain ( even the minor ones ) have to have a look , no one can be an individual with day glow paint on their face or some sort of elaborate costume .
with this film , warner brothers has succeeded in retrograding the series back to it 's tv incarnation .
the only thing missing from the action scenes are the superimposed titles detailing the pows ! , gwaaaa 's , and clang 's associated with the old series .
you almost wonder if william dozier , producer of the tv series is collecting royalties from this film .
the special effects ( by john dykstra ) and production design ( by barbara ling ) are the primary stars of this film .
and it is a case of extravagance in the pursuit of nothing .
every set , from ivy 's lair , the batcave , to freeze 's hideout is set with enough neon and fiberglass to keep the epa in paperwork for years to come .
there is no one realistic set or set piece in the film .
everything is set for maximum exposure .
the special effects have that strange cartoon look that most rushed cgi effects have .
there are homage thrown in by dykstra and his team to gene warren and his work on " the time machine " ( the growing plant scene ) but these scenes are so wroth with glaring color and art that they are almost obscured .
joel schumacher has directed the film with no flair .
camera angles are poorly chosen rehashing set ups from the old tv series .
master shots pepper the action scenes , destroying any flow of kinetic quality they may have had .
mr .
schumacher is a good director .
one just has to look back on the films " the lost boys " , " cousins " ( an underrated film ) and " the client " to know that .
but " batman and robin " comes off as a mated made for tv movie .
the film has no style of individuality .
it is the cinematic equivalent to jell - o , pretty to look at , but empty .
it is unfortunate that this film , even with it 's surprisingly strong box office has succeeded in doing what warner 's thought tim burton would do with the franchise .
kill it .
joel schumacher 's " batman & robin " is loud , colorful , action packed , and ultimately . .
boring .
stars .
[A]:
N