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

the word to describe sharon stone is " wonder " .
not that she _ is _ a wonder , but rather that
i wonder how she can be so inconsistent .
she has a dynamic screen presence in " basic instinct " , turns in a surprisingly fine acting job in " casino " , but possesses neither of those here .
stone teams up with private school headmaster 's wife isabelle adjani to kill adjani 's thoroughly unlikable husband ( chazz palminteri ) .
in a comedy of errors and unexpected twists
straight out of hitchcock ( as in ` homage to ' [ read " steal from " ] ) , it turns out that someone saw them or he 's not dead or maybe . . .
kathy bates turns in a credible , if unspectacular , performance as an investigative police detective .
her character is a bit dull but realistic , although her actions at the end are puzzling .
adjani is more than satisfactory as the timid beaten spouse driven to desperation .
it 's stone that is a disappointment among the actors .
how can she be the epitome of a femme fatale in previous films and come off as a blank in this one ?
costumed in skin - tight clothes and looking down her nose at everyone , she is someone you would want to avoid because she is boring , not enticingly dangerous .
even the threat ( or promise ? ) of a lesbian relationship between the conspirators is only half played out .
on the positive side , there are enough unexpected plot developments to keep your interest alive .
that is if you can put up with stone 's cardboard cut - out character and scenes directly lifted from hitch 's movies .
N

mike myers , you certainly did throw us a ? frickin ' bone here in what you call ?
the biggest austin powers adventure yet . '
austin powers :
the spy who shagged me is the sequel to the 1997 smash comedy austin powers : international man of mystery .
many are skeptical about sequels , saying that the sequel is never better or as good as the original , but austin powers : tswsm goes beyond the first film .
austin powers :
the spy who shagged me stars mike myers in three different roles .
he reprises his role as the title character , austin powers , the shagadelic spy whose body was frozen in 1967 , and unfrozen in 1997 to stop his long time nemesis dr .
evil , also played by mike myers , from destroying the earth .
tswsm leaves off where the original stopped , with dr .
evil 's ?
frisch 's big boy ' space capsule floating through space .
dr .
evil returns back to earth by ejecting from his capsule , plotting to go back in his time machine to the year 1967 , in which he plans to steal austin powers ' " mojo " ,
what keeps austin going with spy talents .
upon his return to his secret lair , which is now a starbucks coffee shop , dr .
evil learns that his evil henchman , which includes the returning robert wagner as number 2 and mindy sterling as frau , have created a 1/8 size clone of dr .
evil , which is later named mini me .
the evil mini me replaces scott evil , played by seth green , as dr .
evil 's son in the madman 's mind ,
because dr .
evil thinks of scott to be only " quasi - evil .
"
dr .
evil has always wanted a son that is evil just like him , and now he has one .
dr .
evil tells mini me , " you complete me , " in a loving manner .
dr .
evil loving ?
wow !
mike myers ' third role is as fat bastard , a scottish henchman of dr .
evil 's , who is sent to steal the mojo from austin powers ' frozen body .
austin powers learns of dr .
evil 's trip back into the 60s , and uses his own time machine to take him back to 1967 , to try to save his mojo before fat bastard gets a hold of it .
once arriving in the year 1967 , austin travels to his " pad " , his smashing home / dance club , where he meets felicity shagwell , played by heather graham , a cia agent who is willing to help him in his journey to stop dr .
evil .
as the film progresses , hilarious one liners are thrown at us , mainly by dr .
evil , for example , " do n't go there , girlfriend ! " to the president of the united states .
many witty gags take place , note the entire tent scene , and just plain , funny scenes which are so stupid-
they 're funny
come a dozen per fifteen minutes .
take for example , scott evil going on the jerry springer show complaining about how evil his father is .
the way austin powers : tswsm uses its humor is clever , throwing a hilarious scene at you , followed by five minutes of one liners , followed by another outrageous scene , so
you never stop laughing .
there was honestly not one moment in austin powers :
tswsm where i was n't laughing .
the last film that i laughed so hard in , was well , austin powers !
it is apparent that mike myers knew how funny this film was while writing it .
the film even makes fun of itself in a line , something along the lines of , " it 's funny how england and southern california look nothing alike .
"
tswsm was filmed in southern california , but was supposed to take place in england .
i can tell you one thing-
he is having a lot of fun with this enormously popular character , which is all over television , newspapers , magazines , and the movie theaters .
i believe that dr .
evil got more attention in the tswsm than austin powers did .
dr .
evil provided more laughs , more memorable moments , and more interesting dialogue than austin
did this time around , who seems to missing the funny touch that he had in the first film .
i felt that austin really did have his mojo taken away , but from screenplay writer mike myers , not fat bastard . also making a great addition to the series is mini me , who is played by verne troyer .
even though the midget actor is 30 years old , he is adorable by dr .
evil 's side constantly .
the first austin powers film had barely any sentimental quality , such as lack of character development , barely any detailed plot characteristics , and barely any good acting , but austin powers tswsm
actually shows some quality behind the frequent humor .
mike myers , with his three roles , acts as eddie murphy did in the nutty professor , disguising himself completely in one of the roles .
( fat bastard )
all three characters are different , and mike myers does do a good job handling each one of them .
heather graham made a great addition with her talent to tswsm , and does a much better job than elizabeth hurley did , who gave a very flat performance in the original , speaking her lines without any feeling or emotion .
speaking of hurley , she can be seen in tswsm for a few brief moments .
hopefully , graham tags along for future austin powers adventures .
the bottom line- a groovy sequel that mike myers put all of his mojo into writing .
P

for his directoral debut , gary oldman chose a highly personal family drama about a violent , alcoholic husband and father , and the various lives he affects .
but while the characters , places and events may have special meaning to the writer - director , the audience is left in the dark .
the center of this tale is the abusive raymond ( ray winstone ) , and the film focuses on him and the people who orbit around him .
he spends his days hanging out with his friends at pubs and girlie bars .
then , he returns home to his pregnant wife , valerie ( kathy burke ) and their five - year - old daughter .
raymond demonstrates his violent tendencies ( and his paranoid delusions ) early on when he accuses valerie 's brother , billy ( charlie creed - miles ) , of stealing .
raymond then proceed to beat ( and bite )
him to a bloody wreck .
but these are the least of billy 's problems .
billy is a heroin addict on the downturn , and it does n't seem that he 'll last much longer .
billy and valerie 's mother , janet ( laila morse ) , is raymond 's nemesis .
she disapproves of him ( and he of her ) , but is powerless to do anything about it .
she merely struggles on , hoping her children will survive their respective torments .
if this description seems bleak , i have n't told the half of it .
this is not a cheery movie , and most of the time
it 's downright depressing .
while at times it is interesting to watch to see just what makes raymond tick , and why no one ever simply calls the cops on him , in the end ,
it 's not quite worth it .
there are too many scenes which randomly dot the picture with little or no purpose .
take for example the extended sequence where one of billy 's scuzzy friends defends a stray puppy .
the film is filled with these " character moments " that never really achieve anything .
granted , there are a few genuinely powerful ( and sickening ) moments in the film , but their expression seems to be more of a catharsis for the creator than us .
the actors do a fine job , particularly in the central roles .
the good thing about an actor turned writer is that oldman knows how to write good scenes , and the actors in nil by mouth have some meat they can tear into .
the bad thing about an actor turned director is that there 's no one to restrain oldman from making poor choices .
a good character drama should mean something to those involved in making the film and the audience .
oldman got it about half right .

N