Detailed Instructions: In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
See one example below:
Problem: 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
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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
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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
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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: N
Explanation: The phrases used in the review convey a negative sentiment (e.g. "presents it in a very bad package").

Problem: capsule : a short punchy action sequel to the two dinosaur films made by steven spielberg .
joe johnston directs a straightforward story of an excursion back to the island of the dinosaurs .
it lets us see some new dinosaurs ( is that an oxymoron ? ) and gives us a nice and generally reasonably written adventure .
the film is neither ambitious nor pretentious .
i had a good time . ,
low +2 ( -4 to +4 ) here goes my credibility .
this is a film on which i expect to be in a minority .
i liked the third jurassic park film .
i even liked the second jurassic park film .
in a lot of ways jurassic park : the lost world was a creative three - way braiding together of michael crichton 's novel the lost world , arthur conan doyle 's novel the lost world , and the classic silent film version of the doyle .
jp2 was an adventure , as doyle said , " for the boy who 's half man or the man who 's half boy .
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that is what all the jurassic park films are .
expecting them to give the viewer insights into the human condition is like expecting your car to vacuum your house .
the classic adventure films like gunga din or king solomon 's mines had under - written characters also .
jurassic park iii is an all out adventure on an island inhabited by dinosaurs .
the characters are a little more complex than they at first appear to be , and even that is a little more complex than i was expecting .
some of the characters who start out looking stupid and useless prove to be neither as the film proceeds .
that degree of complexity combined with those very realistic looking dinosaur effects is just about as much as i require .
i feel i got my money 's worth
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the story opens with eric ( played by trevor morgan ) and friend parasailing near the forbidden island of isla sorna off costa rica .
this was the research island where the dinosaurs were created for the now defunct jurassic park .
they hope , no doubt , to get a look at the island 's dinosaurs from a safe height .
the height is safe , but driving the boat in the water is not .
the two soon find themselves in trouble and have to ditch their parasail onto the island where they do indeed get a better look at the dinosaurs than they had intended .
flash to the united states and someone is offering to fund paleontologist alan grant (
sam neill ) in his research if he will go and fly over isla sorna and act as a guide .
he has said that no force on earth or heaven could get him back near real dinosaurs .
but again money convinces him to drop what he is doing and go .
doing the convincing is a wealthy and eccentric couple ( william h . macy and tea leoni ) who has been just about everywhere else in the world and wants the adventure of seeing real dinosaurs .
they too plan to see the island from a safe height grant is relieved to learn .
he will fly over this island at a safe altitude just this once .
right .
guess what happens next ?
jp3 probably functions better as a sequel than jp2 .
first it has alan grant and ellie sattler ( laura dern ) back rather than the much less appealing ian malcolm .
sattler has a much smaller part in jp3 , but is still present to tie this story to the first .
curiously each film seems to arrange to have a signature scene with characters holding on to some large metal object that is about to fall some great distance .
one thing that does not quite fit with the earlier films is just as grant discovers that raptors may be able to talk to each other , suddenly they seem to be doing it all the time .
they did not appear to be conversing in the previous films .
of course , these raptors look a little different also , so perhaps they are a different related species .
not only are they more intelligent than in the past films , they are also more sympathetic .
in this story they are not just killing machines , they have reasonable motives for what they do beyond nutrition .
this time around they may be a little too anthropomorphized .
each new film in the series introduces us to some new dinosaurs , of course .
in this film a major threat is from a spinosaurus , not as common or as popularly known as a tyrannosaurus , but larger and presumably more nasty .
it has a crocodile 's head and the body that looks like a dimetrodon walking upright .
perhaps as an economy measure or just to create a mood the visual effects team frequently obscures our view of the dinosaurs .
sometimes they just move too fast to see .
occasionally darkness or fog obscures our vision .
a few times we get unconvincing matte shot , particularly of the laboratory .
but there is less money on the screen in terms of dinosaur effects than in the two previous films .
the musical score by don davis borrows heavily from john williams 's score for the first film .
joe johnston , who directs , already has to his credit two very good films i recommend the rocketeer and october sky .
a team including alexander payne and jim taylor known for election writes the screenplay .
the film they have made is a long way from great cinema , but it still is fun . if you get a thrill from seeing what look very much like live dinosaurs alive today , the film is for you .
i rate it a 7 on the 0 to 10 scale and a low +2 on the -4 to +4 scale .
Solution:
P