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

[EX Q]: battlefield
long , boring and just plain stupid battlefield earth a film review by michael redman copyright 2000 by michael redman in my mid - teen years , i had a horrendous re - occurring nightmare .
behind the wheel of a car , i was driving down a straight road in the middle of a desert .
no scenery except the horizon line and the converging parallel lines of the highway .
no matter what i did , the view did n't change : travelling but not getting anywhere .
each time i awoke in a sweat , terrified .
you do n't have to be carl jung to understand that dream .
powerless to make changes , trapped in a boring situation with no hope of rescue
, this is the stuff of nightmares whether we are asleep or awake .
this is exactly how you will feel 15 minutes after " battlefield earth " begins .
for all of its flash and style , l . ron hubbard 's science fiction epic is the earliest and best entry for the dullest summer film of 2000 . dull " and " stupid
.
in the year 3000 , the psychlo aliens have ruled our planet for 1 , 000 years .
humans either work as slave labor in mining operations or live as barbarians .
there 's no hope .
the future is bleak .
then the psychlo make a mistake and capture feisty jonnie goodboy tyler ( barry pepper ) who organizes a revolution against chief of security terl ( john travolta ) and the alien race .
it 's an archetypal post - apocalyptic plot full of promise .
considering some of the talent involved and all the millions thrown at the screen , it 's difficult to see how it could have failed so miserably .
but it does .
the story is so full of holes that it falls apart within minutes of the opening credits .
are we really supposed to believe that after a millennium of looking for gold , the psychlo never discovered fort knox ? or that fighter planes are still in pristine condition after all that time -- and gassed up ? or that the cavemen become such expert pilots in seven days that they can easily down the advanced alien ships ? or that the psychlo spy cameras somehow do n't notice that their slaves are missing for days ?
travolta prances across the screen hamming it up for all he 's worth and is almost entertaining .
almost .
the rest of the actors are wooden mannequins trying not to laugh while delivering lines that no person -- " man - animal " or not -- would ever utter .
some of the film
_ looks
_ good , but it also looks so familiar .
a race of large hulking ape - like creatures has taken over the world while our cities lie in ruin .
sound like something charlton heston might be in ?
the psychlo look like overweight klingons in gear from " dune " .
the final air battle between the air force fighters and the psychlo ships in their high - tech city is something george lucas might have been associated with .
it 's too loud .
it 's too oppressive .
it 's too slow .
it 's too long .
. .
far too long .
and on it goes .
the list of the problems with " battlefield earth " is endless .
it 's difficult to find anything in the film that does work .
oh yeah .
the color scheme is nice .
the real question is how this movie ever got made .
could it have something to do with the fact that l . ron hubbard was the founder of scientology ?
and that john travolta is a member of the church .
that might explain why travolta bought the rights to the novel years ago .
but it does n't give us a clue as to why first - time screenwriter corey mandell 's atrocious script was used .
or why the high - profile project was entrusted with roger christian who had never before directed a major film .
or why no one looked at this thing before it was released and realized there might be problems .
the one bright spot is that no longer will kevin costner 's " the postman " ( which i begrudgingly admit as a guilty pleasure ) be " the " big budget science fiction failure .
" battlefield earth " has the honor sewed up .
often reviewers will recommend that you skip mediocre films and wait for the video .
that 's not the case here .
you can act now and make the decision to not see it on the big screen or on the small one .
do n't hesitate .
strike now while the iron is cold .
[EX A]: N

[EX Q]: its a stupid little movie that trys to be clever and sophisticated , yet trys a bit too hard .
with the voices of woody allen , gene hackman , jennifer lopez , sylvester stallone , and sharon stone , this computer - animated yak - fest ( think toy story [ 1996 ] filled with used merchandising ) is one for the ant - eaters .
the main story is the independence of a worker named z ( allen ) .
he wants more to life than just digging away underground for the colony .
when he finds out about ` ` insectopia , " a mythical place where all insects can run free , z , along with his colony 's princess ( stone ) , journey out into the world to find a meaning for life .
about 15 minutes into the picture , i began to wonder what the point of the film was .
halfway through , i still did n't have an answer .
by the end credits , i just gave up and ran out .
antz is a mindless mess of poor writing and even poorer voice - overs .
allen is nonchalant , while i would have guessed , if i had n't seen her in the mighty and basic instinct , stone ca n't act , even in a cartoon .
this film is one for the bugs : unfunny and extremely dull .
hey , a bug 's life may have a good time doing antz in .
[EX A]: N

[EX Q]: well i guess it 's that time of the year again .
the one time of the year where movie craftors are exonerated from the need to even * try * writing a script that has more dialogue than explosions .
it 's also the best time for the handful of existing bigtime hollywood mr action heroes to dust off their miniscule vocabularies , pull on their black vests and charge onto our screens tersely expirating what they hope will become memorable catchphrases .
in america they call this time " summer " and it happens once every year .
and maybe it 's the exposure to all that nasty sun that does it , but in the process normally weak , insipid lines like " consider this a divorce , " " hasta la vista , baby , " and " you 're the disease .
i 'm the cure
" actually do end up being repeated more often then the phrases from my book of biblical proverbs .
this is not entirely a bad thing , of course .
what am i talking about ?
i 'm talking about the summer " blockbusters , " the " action thrillers , " the " this - obviously - cost - a - lot - so - you - know- everyone's - going - to - go " explosions , gas threats , flying saucers , and special effects .
in the rash of " my , what big guns you have , but wait !
mine are bigger " movies , there are also the usual boy - meets - fish - and - saves - environment movies ( or whale , whatever ) , and * this * year , the odd crop of " save - the - world - from - aliens - or - environment- threats " offerings .
i 'm talking about the three batmans , the speeds , the terminators , etc .
this year i 'm talking about twister , independence day , the arrival , the rock , mission : impossible , and of course , eraser .
here in singapore , as our local movie critics like to whine , we seem to get the pick of the crop of " my explosion is more real - looking than yours " movies , but nothing else .
mission : impossible opened in our theatres almost as soon as it did in the us .
the same goes for eraser , which is unfortunate for arnold schwarzenegger because coming so soon after what time magazine recently called " mission : unavoidable " ( on account of its worldwide mega - advertising blitz ) , eraser seems like a cheaper , less thoughtful imitation
.
that 's saying a lot , because mi the movie was already a cheap , thoughtless imitation of its tv originator of the ' 60s/'70s .
in eraser , arnie is a us federal marshall who relocates trial witnesses whose testimonies place their lives in danger .
he does this by destroying all evidence of their present existence and re - situating them with new identities .
his new case is lee cullen , played by vanessa williams who , unlike all the other scumbags he 's ever relocated , is " an actual , real life honest person .
"
because she 's so good , and has such nice legs , arnold spends the whole movie trying to protect her , and only uses the opening movie sequence to save robert pastorelli from * his * killers .
lee obtains evidence that the high - technology weapons company she works for is secretly selling sophisticated , black - market arms to people with foreign accents and stringy hair .
of course , as the formula goes , her revealing this information will destroy the system as we know it because heck , there are people in high places who will go down with this , because yes , this is the biggest conspiracy in the history of the world ( that is , america ) since watergate .
in protecting lee , arnold is framed by the mentor - turned - evil robert deguerin , nicely played by james caan , and ends up having to prove that he is n't the one killing the programme 's witnesses in addition to making sure lee is n't accidentally torpedo - ed to death by the new , green guns his enemies all have .
it 's around this time that people in the theatre with me starting humming the mission : impossible theme , because arnie 's mission includes breaking into a high - security building to run a disk .
i guess i should tell you more about the particular gun everyone in this movie is so antsy about .
it 's an electro - magnetic pulse gun thing which fires aluminium missiles , and which can see through walls .
it has some sort of x - ray vision , so its user can target the victim 's heart even from great distances .
despite this , which i figure is a pretty cool feature in a gun ( though i 'm certainly no expert ) , however , arnold , whose own heart is targeted a number of times ,
* never * goes flying 10 feet backwards with a two - foot missile through his chest like all the others who get shot by this gun .
instead he outruns and outsmarts his trackers each time , giving eery and ironic resonance to that terminator line that practically made him famous
: " i 'll be back .
"
like everyone else in the theater , i left the movie feeling that the trailers had duped me , because they made me want to watch this movie voluntarily .
although there is a * lot * of violence in this movie , not to mention mutilation and some bloody tussles with alligators ,
i recommend this movie to most over-18s who need some therapeutic mindless action to get over the weirdness of fargo or the hangover effect of leaving las vegas .
review 's rating system :
* wait for the video .
*
* a little creaky , but still better than staying at home with gotcha !
*
* * pretty good , bring a friend .
*
*
* * amazing , potent stuff .
*
*
*
* * perfection . see it twice .
[EX A]:
N