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

Example input: 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 )
Example output: N
Example explanation: The phrases used in the review convey a negative sentiment (e.g. "presents it in a very bad package").
Q: by - the - numbers : a film which introduces characters , situations , dilemmas and developments that we 've seen before in a parade of other films .
a film which can easily be guessed out by the end of frame number one .
a film which is packed to the cap with predictability , leading to very little tension , excitement , suspense or interest on the part of its paying audience .
in short , a clich ?
-ridden formula film .
welcome to my review of the general 's daughter .
plot :
an undercover army detective and a rape counselor find themselves locked inside an investigation into some bigwig general daughter 's rape , torture and murder .
they must delve through all of the unspoken army rules and the hush - hushes , to figure out the conspiracy behind the shocking murder .
critique : by the numbers
( see above ) .
this film is just there .
it sits there on the big screen for a couple of hours , floats around , goes away , hopefully never to be heard from again .
it is so predictable that even a blind man could see its plot points coming a mile away .
it 's as suspenseful as a leaf dropping from a tree .
it 's as action - packed as a canadian curling tournament
.
get the picture ?
i sure did . . .
it 's too bad that it took my friend
and i less than two minutes to figure out the entire plot , and to break down each scene before it was even completed .
easy as pie .
it 's unfortunate because james woods and john travolta actually have one extremely enjoyable scene together near the beginning of the film , but alas , t'was not to be
( that scene alone scored two of my four points allotted . )
woods chews it up in the few scenes that he 's in , travolta passes the test , cromwell plays , well , cromwell , and stowe is window dressing with a smile ( mia since 12 monkeys ( 8/10 )
it seems ) .
and this predictability is n't reserved only to those who have seen films like courage under fire or a few good men , it runs deep inside every one of us who knows to suspect someone as soon as they see their obvious guilty mug on the big screen .
it 's like riding a bike .
other scenarios which sponge out any tension , suspense or interest from this film include every single character eventually " breaking down " to the investigators without much reason given , a ridiculously placed background relationship between two of the lead characters , as much action as my grandparents bedroom nightly , and a directorial style that can only reward director simon west with a solid nomination for the " best poor man 's michael bay doing his best poor man 's impression of tony scott
" ( add two scenes with sunlight shining through some half - open shades for grit and integrity , and an all - out rainfall for the finale for further chaos , and you 're a great director . yawn .
yeah ,
whatever tony . . .
i mean , simon . )
and are n't we all sick of hearing about these army " bad boys " and their overdone " code of silence " ? ! enough already !
next subject ,
please . see it on video if you wanna fall asleep after seeing a much better movie like an officer and a gentleman ( 8 . 5/10 ) .
otherwise , save yourself the trouble and go take a crap instead .
you 'll feel much better afterwards .
trust me .
little known facts about this film and its stars : ironically , john travolta turned down the lead role in an officer and a gentleman , which eventually went to little dickie gere .
ironically on james woods ' part , he completed one of his earliest acting roles on tv 's " welcome back , kotter " , starring none other than john travolta .
actor james woods recently confirmed reports of his " big dick " on howard stern 's radio program .
unlike rocker tommy lee , woods is also alleged to have an iq of 180 .
he apparently scored a perfect 800 on his verbal sats and a 779 on the math section .
what a man !
john travolta is married to actress kelly preston , and they have a son named jett
( travolta loves them planes ! ) .
word on the street is that the kid was apparently conceived during a weekend at demi moore and bruce willis ' home .
director simon west 's first film was the jerry bruckheimer produced con air ( 6 . 5/10 ) .
before that , he directed tv commercials including the budweiser ad with the dancing ants .
yippee !
veteran director john frankenheimer ( ronin ( 7 . 5/10 ) , the manchurian candidate ) portrays the character of general sonnenberg in this film .
the imdb reports that when senator robert kennedy was shot at the ambassador hotel in los angeles on june 5 , 1968 , it was his good friend john frankenheimer who had personally driven him there that day .
clarence williams iii , who plays colonel fowler in this film , is known to some from his role as " linc " in the original " mod squad " tv series .
younger folk may remember him as prince 's father in purple rain .
A:
N