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: you think that these people only exist in the movies , but trust me , they 're as real as life .
i once talked to a guy who thought the united states government was putting satellites into orbit which could fry an individual person 's brain with microwaves .
then i sat in a room full of people who believed that the government rigged state elections .
i even listened to a man who swore that nicotine was an additive that cigarette companies put in their products for the specific goal of getting people addicted .
these people had what are known as " conspiracy theories " - ideas about how unseen forces work to deceive and control the public .
a little imagination goes a long way .
in richard donner 's conspiracy theory , jerry fletcher ( mel gibson ) is a new york city cab driver who seems to have a conspiracy theory about everything .
his latest , that nasa is trying to kill the president by causing an earthquake from the space shuttle , might sound outrageous to us , but is all in a day 's work for him .
he combs the newspaper , looking for tidbits that leave telltale warnings about the goings - on behind the scenes , and from there jerry draws his conclusions .
upstanding citizen that he is , he tries to convince alice sutton ( julia roberts ) of the justice department that the president must be warned .
lucky gal , alice , who met jerry when he saved her from a couple of muggers and has had to listen to his theories during the six months since .
what she does n't know is that jerry 's interest in her is far more than , well , professional .
he goes to great lengths to follow her around and watch her in her own apartment .
but when some secret government types seem to take an interest in jerry 's ideas and his limited - circulation " conspiracy theory " newsletter , he finds himself in danger and in real need of alice 's help .
one of the problems with conspiracy theory is that it tries to pass itself off as an action - thriller when it seems to have neither a whole lot of action , nor a significant number of thrills .
part of this is a result of the film 's slow pace .
it takes forever to set up the relationship between jerry and alice , and even once that is over with , the rest of the film seems to be a lot of boredom that every once in a while stops to take a break for excitement .
at over two hours , this film could have been significantly condensed and had it 's running time shortened by twenty minutes to half an hour , but even then , the action scenes would not be able to save the film .
instead of truly exciting and engaging set pieces , we 're treated to a few of the generic scenes with the requisite " black elements " : black helicopter , men in black action suits and body armor , black vehicles -
you know the drill .
they come on down with all kinds of neat gadgets and weapons , but for some reason a guy with just a bunch of theories and some chick with no training somehow manage to elude them every time .
big deal , we 've seen it all before .
watching the film , i wished donner had at least tried to use a little imagination , but i was out of luck .
now , when i say it took forever to set up the " relationship " between jerry and alice , i completely mean what one person is relative to the other , and not romantic involvement .
oh , donner and screenwriter brian helgeland would like you to believe that by the end of the movie , the two main characters will end up falling hopelessly in love with each other , but there seems to be no evidence of that ever occurring .
you see , there were more sparks between gibson and danny glover in the lethal weapon movies ( also directed by donner ) than between gibson and roberts in conspiracy theory .
the two just do n't click , and when you throw in a number of happenings that would cause alice to reject jerry altogether ( like finding out he 's been stalking her ) , the subsequent attraction is absolutely forced .
the script in general also seems forced , like someone sat helgeland down and forced him to write it , then took it and forced it upon us .
dialog is undistinguished and rather unmemorable , to the point that i almost stopped listening .
even gibson 's usual gift for ad lib could n't punch up the film sufficiently to raise my interest , although one of jerry 's theories about oliver stone was mildly amusing .
unfortunately , much of what 's discussed in the film is not inherently important to what 's going on , but instead filler that starts out with potential , but ends up just being extraneous because it 's never followed through .
for example , jerry professes that a man found drowned in his swimming pool was actually murdered by the government in a new york subway station .
he even goes so far as to explain that the station was flooded at the time due to a water main break ( hence the water in a subway station ) , and that the coroner should check the man 's lungs for chlorine .
this is convincing enough to alice that she seems to believe him .
you know what happens then ?
nothing , zip , nada .
no follow - up whatsoever , so what 's the significance ?
okay , here 's another one .
a couple of well known ( real life ) assassins were found to have possessed copies of the j .
d .
salinger novel " the catcher in the rye " .
jerry also has a bunch of copies .
whenever he goes into a bookstore , he has to buy one . leaving out the question of whether or not this makes jerry an assassin , we 're never given a reason to believe why this would make him an assassin .
not when we find out about his salinger collection , not when he goes to the bookstore , not later on when we get the answer to our first question .
the point becomes totally extraneous .
oh , did i mention that patrick stewart is in this film ?
yeah , he plays this government psychiatrist named dr .
jonas who may or may not be a bad guy .
that 's about it .
for all the presence this usually marvelous actor has , he 's nearly forgettable in conspiracy theory .
you can just lump him in with the supporting players , with the exception of cylk cozart who plays agent lowry of the fbi .
this guy was really likable , and i wish he and his character had gotten more screen time .
okay , here 's my theory .
this really started out as a great film , but some of its jokes were actually true !
the government came in and forced donner to make edits for the sake of national security , and this was what was left over .
A:
N