user: In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
One example: plot : two teen couples go to a church party , drink and then drive .
they get into an accident .
one of the guys dies , but his girlfriend continues to see him in her life , and has nightmares .
what 's the deal ?
watch the movie and " sorta " find out . . .
critique : a mind - fuck movie for the teen generation that touches on a very cool idea , but presents it in a very bad package .
which is what makes this review an even harder one to write , since i generally applaud films which attempt to break the mold , mess with your head and such ( lost highway & memento ) , but there are good and bad ways of making all types of films , and these folks just did n't snag this one correctly
.
they seem to have taken this pretty neat concept , but executed it terribly .
so what are the problems with the movie ?
well , its main problem is that it 's simply too jumbled
.
it starts off " normal " but then downshifts into this " fantasy " world in which you , as an audience member ,
have no idea what 's going on
.
there are dreams , there are characters coming back from the dead , there are others who look like the dead , there are strange apparitions , there are disappearances , there are a looooot of chase scenes , there are tons of weird things that happen , and most of it is simply not explained .
now i personally do n't mind trying to unravel a film every now and then , but when all it does is give me the same clue over and over again , i get kind of fed up after a while , which is this film 's biggest problem .
it 's obviously got this big secret to hide , but it seems to want to hide it completely until its final five minutes .
and do they make things entertaining , thrilling or even engaging , in the meantime ?
not really .
the sad part is that the arrow and i both dig on flicks like this , so we actually figured most of it out by the half - way point , so all of the strangeness after that did start to make a little bit of sense , but it still did n't the make the film all that more entertaining .
i guess the bottom line with movies like this is that you should always make sure that the audience is " into it " even before they are given the secret password to enter your world of understanding .
i mean , showing melissa sagemiller running away from visions for about 20 minutes throughout the movie is just plain lazy ! !
okay , we get it .
. .
there are people chasing her and we do n't know who they are .
do we really need to see it over and over again ?
how about giving us different scenes offering further insight into all of the strangeness going down in the movie ?
apparently , the studio took this film away from its director and chopped it up themselves , and it shows .
there might 've been a pretty decent teen mind - fuck movie in here somewhere , but i guess " the suits " decided that turning it into a music video with little edge , would make more sense .
the actors are pretty good for the most part , although wes bentley just seemed to be playing the exact same character that he did in american beauty , only in a new neighborhood .
but my biggest kudos go out to sagemiller , who holds her own throughout the entire film , and actually has you feeling her character 's unraveling .
overall , the film does n't stick
because it does n't entertain , it 's confusing , it rarely excites and
it feels pretty redundant for most of its runtime , despite a pretty cool ending and explanation to all of the craziness that came before it .
oh ,
and by the way , this is not a horror or teen slasher flick . . .
it 's just packaged to look that way because someone is apparently assuming that the genre is still hot with the kids .
it also wrapped production two years ago and has been sitting on the shelves ever since .
whatever . .
. skip it !
where 's joblo coming from ?
a nightmare of elm street 3 ( 7/10 ) - blair witch 2 ( 7/10 ) - the crow ( 9/10 ) - the crow : salvation ( 4/10 )
- lost highway ( 10/10 ) - memento ( 10/10 ) - the others ( 9/10 ) - stir of echoes ( 8/10 )
Solution is here: N
Explanation: The phrases used in the review convey a negative sentiment (e.g. "presents it in a very bad package").

Now, solve this: 1 .
he does n't have a hard - to - decipher accent ,
2 .
he does n't always speak in a monotone , and 3 .
his face does n't always wear the same impassive expression .
in short , the former nfl player turned fox sportscaster turned actor is too good to be bad , but too bad to be good .
unfortunately , the same can not be said of his first star vehicle , firestorm , which is just plain awful .
one of the most glaring problems with long ( who made his acting debut in john woo 's broken arrow ) is that he 's so mediocre that he often blends in with the scenery .
as ace firefighter jesse graves , long is supposed to be playing a bigger - than - life action hero -- the kind of he- man who will crash through a flaming door to save a child or parachute into a burning clearing to rescue some stupid campers .
unfortunately , despite the best efforts of first - time director dean semler to photograph long using heroic shots that make kevin costner 's work in the postman look stark , jesse turns out to be a pretty boring good guy .
to put it kindly , this is not a well - written motion picture .
firestorm is a collection of howlingly bad lines set against a backdrop of disaster movie clich ?
s which , taken together , form something that requires a level of viewer inebriation to be recognized as a plot .
the only reason this film is getting one star ( instead of something lower ) is that most of the fire sequences are realistic , and i was fascinated by the meticulous planning that must have been necessary to stage them effectively .
we 're introduced to our big burly hero one afternoon when he and some colleagues jump into the midst of a forest fire to save a group of people .
during this sequence , our big burly hero proves that he 's also a sensitive guy by risking his life to save a little girl and her dog ( yes , the dog lives ) from being broiled alive .
flash - forward a year .
now , our big burly hero is taking over as chief of his smokejumpers association , replacing outgoing honcho wynt perkins ( real actor scott glenn ) .
but this day , our big burly hero 's first in charge , is n't going to be business - as - usual .
a group of nasty escaped criminals have set a wyoming forest alight to aid their flight to freedom .
led by randy earl shaye ( william forsythe ) , the sadistic creep who must be killed twice to really die , they pose as canadian firefighters who somehow got lost across the border .
along the way , they meet and take hostage the damsel in distress ( suzy amis ) .
eventually , our big burly hero is placed in a position where he has to fight the fire , rescue the damsel in distress , defeat the sadistic creep who must be killed twice to really die , and restore order to the galaxy .
firestorm 's director , dean semler , is a former cinematographer ( he won an academy award for his work on dances with wolves ) ,
so it 's no surprise that the film looks good .
unfortunately , that 's firestorm 's lone asset , and it falters near the end , when computer - generated special effects fill up the screen .
these are of about equal quality to what you might observe on a nintendo 64 video game .
the action sequences , which include a variety of chases , are occasionally interesting , but never invigorating .
everyone , including long , appears to be going through the motions .
there is n't a memorable performance to be found from beginning to end , unless you count the forest fire , which generates some heat .
as the sadistic creep who must be killed twice to really die , william forsythe lacks panache .
he 's worse than a generic bad guy ; he 's a boring generic bad guy who does n't have any snappy one - liners to hurl at our big burly hero .
my advice to scott glenn ( absolute power ) and suzy amis ( titanic ) is to accidentally forget this film the next time they 're making out a resume .
there 's some small comfort in knowing this early in the year that
i already have one entry for my bottom 10 list .
( at least i hope there are n't 10 worse films than this . )
and i know i was n't the only one who really disliked this movie .
as the audience was filing out of the screening , i loitered in the theater lobby to catch a few comments .
the general consensus seemed to be that , although the movie sucked , the promotional key ring was cool .
the problem is that fox wo n't be giving out key rings to regular movie - goers , so that nixes any reason to see firestorm .
Solution:

assistant: N