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

[Q]: capsule : annoyingly unentertaining , obvious and paper - thin buddy / cop / drug / sexy - witness movie .
presence of director michael bay shows none of the talent he demonstrated in the rock .
i 've seen this movie already , i said , as i looked at the box art .
no , i have n't even seen a trailer for the movie ; i do n't even know what it 's about , but i can look at the way they 're promoting it , and i know i 've seen it already .
i thought : it 's about these two cops .
and they 're buddies , sort of .
they 're at each other 's throats a lot , but they really do like each other .
and everyone else in their department hates them 'cause they 're hot - shots .
and they have some kind of diametric opposition in their relationship .
and one day they 're in the middle of cop business as usual when they get mixed up in this plot that involves a really sadistic bad guy with lots of henchmen who can never hit anything with the billions of rounds of ammo they are always carrying .
and the bad guy is a drug lord .
and there 's a witness , and she 's this sexy thing who rubs both of them the wrong way .
and their supervisor wants their badges for breakfast when they blow up half the town bringing this guy down .
i only missed the bit about the badges .
the rest i got dead - on .
and i had n't even left the video store yet .
the cops in this movie are will smith and martin lawrence , and the bad guy is the immensely underutilized tcheky karyo .
smith plays a cop who has a trust fund and is thus not a cop for the money ; martin l .
is a family man ( shades of the now - tired lethal weapon dynamic here ) whose wife and he are at total odds .
this leads to some strained scenes about lawrence 's " not getting any " , and some totally unneccesary bits with him skulking around his own house , thinking his partner is now his wife 's " back door man " .
not funny ; tiresome .
bad boys gets some of its incredibly meager selling points from the presence of will smith and martin lawrence .
will smith is a natural , and i 'm happy to see him in movies like six degrees . . .
and men in black .
he 's funny and charming without trying to be ; he really does seem to be enjoying himself .
martin lawrence is a different story ; he 's so uptight and verbally constipated
that sitting through his improvised riffs are a trial .
movies like this are not about originality .
i know this .
they are about style and energy and synergy between actors .
i know this , too .
and yet , while watching bad boys , which its glamorous photography and impossibly exact stunt choreography , i felt fed up .
i 'd seen con air , which despite being completely implausible , was still great fun , because it tried however feebly to put some new life into the mix .
bad boys is a dry run -- and overlong , too , clocking in at just over two hours with a lot more by - play than i felt could be justified .
i could write this movie .
you could write this movie .
many people have .
many people will continue to write this movie , over and over again .
other people will buy it from them , and make it , and we will pay money to see it .
more the fools we all .
in a terrifyingly prescient line from his book
a scanner darkly , phil k .
dick once mused that the mcdonaldburger ( as he called it ) would eventually eclipse money as the token of cultural and financial exchange .
one day we will all just sit in our living rooms and sell the same burger back and forth to each other .
the same could be said about this movie .
i have the sinking feeling we 're going to see it again .
soon .
[A]: N


[Q]: i think maybe it 's time for the batman series to be put to rest .
not only has the first two films ' unsettling insight into what it would really take for someone to make himself into a " superhero " been abandoned , but this one throws any lingering realism out the window and goes for all - out camp with few traces of the self - mocking restraint of the relatively light - hearted third installment .
let me give you an example : in the first scene of the movie , batman ( george clooney ) and robin ( chris o'donnell ) are summoned to a museum that has been literally turned to ice by mr .
freeze ( arnold schwarzenegger ) in an attempt to steal a diamond .
mr .
freeze 's thugs are armed with none other than hockey sticks , but this is no problem for our heroes : automatic skates shoot out of their shoes , at which point robin manages to get hold of a hockey stick , grabs the diamond , and stick - handles it through the museum .
i might have expected this from an airplane - style farce , but i do n't think that 's what this movie is supposed to be . after all , the previous three batman movies were actually fairly realistic by the standards of the superhero / action genre and kept the corny death - defying stunts to a minimum , while playing the obligatory cheesiness with at least some amount of irony .
not any more ; the list goes on and on in this one .
robin holds onto the outside of a flying rocket ship 30 , 000 feet high in the atmosphere , climbing in the door to save batman .
mr . freeze and poison ivy ( uma thurman ) leap from a skyscraper and survive by landing in a small pond .
a world dominating mad scientist lives in a fortress that seems to have been stolen from the old he - man cartoons .
my very favorite example is the scene in which batgirl ( alicia silverstone ) gets in a race with motorcycle thugs , during which they come up with the clever notion of dousing the road with gasoline and setting it on fire to distract her .
not bad , but would n't the police ( or maybe batman ? )
notice if the road was on fire ?
i knew gotham city was this crazy anarchic place ,
but . . . . it also seems that the creators of the batman movies are obeying some unwritten rule that there have to be more main characters and plot lines in each successive installment .
as if three protagonists and two villains were n't enough , batman and robin
further weighs itself down with an underdeveloped side story of the failing health of bruce wayne 's butler alfred ( michael gough ) , which might have seemed poignant if it was n't surrounded by so much silliness , as well as several scenes with elle macpherson as bruce 's girlfriend which serve no purpose other than to remind us that she is in the movie .
all this might be semi - excusable if the story were interesting and entertaining , but it is n't . in fact ,
it 's kind of boring
.
mr . freeze and poison ivy pale in comparison as villains to past baddies such as jack nicholson 's joker and danny devito 's penguin .
their evil plot is as predictable ( schwarzenegger actually pronounces the words , " today gotham city , tomorrow the world ! " ) as it is lame - brained
( did n't it ever occur to poison ivy that freezing the entire world would kill her precious plants too ? ) .
and robin 's constant challenging of batman
mostly just makes him look bull - headed and stupid and makes us wonder why batman ever would have taken him on as a partner in the first place .
strip away the stars , the fancy set design , and the status as a " batman movie , " and all you have here is another barely passable summer action flick .
[A]: N


[Q]: with three pre- to mid - teen children and an aging father - in - law to care for -- cooking and cleaning and laundry , drop - offs at little league practice and pick - ups from ballet practice -- margaret hall 's life is rife with complications .
and with her naval officer husband stationed somewhere in the north atlantic , virtually impossible to reach by telephone , margaret leads the crazed life of a single parent .
but margaret 's hectic world is about to get a lot more complicated .
her teenage son beau , a talented trumpet player with strong prospects of being accepted into wesleyan university 's music program , has fallen in with the wrong crowd .
his mother drives from their idyllic , lakeside community of tahoe city , california to the sprawling urban metropolis of reno , nevada , with its imposing concrete superstructures and seedy neon - lit nightclubs , to confront the 30-something man who has befriended beau .
" stay away from my son " margaret warns darby reese .
her words , however , appear to fall on deaf ears as reese turns up drunk at the family homestead later that evening , urging beau to join him in the boathouse .
there are words and advances and some pushing and shoving and beau runs back into the house , passed his startled mother , as the crack of a wooden railing giving way breaks the cold blue silence and an intoxicated reese tumbles out of sight .
the next day , on her morning walk , margaret discovers reese 's lifeless body lying crumpled on the shoreline , a boat anchor impaled in his chest .
with her maternal instincts working overtime , margaret quickly ferries the body out into the lake , weighs it down , and dumps it overboard .
but margaret 's life is about to get a lot more complicated .
soon after the body is discovered , snagged on a local fisherman 's line , margaret is paid a visit by an attractive - seeming blackmailer in a red nova .
alek spera threatens to hand over compromising videotape of beau to the police unless margaret comes up with $ 50 , 000 by 4 o'clock the next day .
but margaret 's life is about to get a lot more complicated , for alek
turns out to be something she never expected .
based on elisabeth sanxay holding 's novel " the blank wall , " " the deep end " is a well - crafted thriller written and directed by scott mcgehee and david siegel ( " suture " ) .
it makes the most of a talented but not particularly well - known cast -- goran visnjic plays alek with a suave likeability , jonathan tucker shines as the conflicted beau , peter donat is amusing as grandfather hall , and josh lucas has an equally small but effective role as the hapless darby reese .
the film is also lovingly photographed by giles nuttgens and features an evocative score , courtesy peter nashel .
but it owes everything to british actress tilda swinton .
swinton , whose pale - faced ethereal beauty has graced many of derek jarman 's films
( " caravaggio , " " edward ii , " " the last of england " ) , plays margaret hall in " the deep end " and , like charlotte rampling in this year 's " under the sand , " turns in a commanding and accomplished performance .
margaret is a devoted mother who is willing to risk everything to protect the ones she loves , and swinton captures every frustration , every fear , every subtle examination and every fervent realization and every nervous oscillation of her being .
the role calls for an extremely wide range of emotions none the least of which is simply playing a mother beset with a multitude of domestic responsibilities .
many can relate to that , of course ; it 's the murder cover - up and the blackmail and the fear of losing one 's son that swinton so gracefully , so graciously , makes resonate with the truest of colors .
the end is deep all right , and there is n't a single shallow moment in tilda swinton 's canon .
[A]:
P