In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
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 )
Example solution: N
Example explanation: The phrases used in the review convey a negative sentiment (e.g. "presents it in a very bad package").

Problem: > from writer and director darren stein comes jawbreaker , the poorly told tale of what can happen when an innocent birthday prank goes wrong .
at reagan high , four girls are sitting on top of the world .
courtney shane , played by rose mcgowan , holds the title of meanest , most disrespectful soul in the school .
everyone hates her , but everyone envies her due to her popularity .
courtney is the " leader " of her clique , which also includes julie , played by rebecca gayheart , liz purr , played by charlotte roldan , and marcie , played by julie benz are the other three in the group .
it is liz 's seventeenth birthday , and julie , courtney , and marcie concur that they will play a seemingly innocent prank on her , but the prank results in the death of liz .
just like stupid teens in any teen directed film such as this one , the foursome decide to cover up the death to make it look like a murder committed by someone else .
and also just like in other teen directed movies , one of the four do n't agree with hiding it , this time that character being julie .
and finally , just like in other teen movies , there is a witness outside the group trying to hide the truth .
this time that character being fern mayo ( judy greer ) , who is subject to many cracks from courtney 's group , as well as the entire school .
> from here
, jawbreaker turns into a predictable tale of revenge , bad morals , and at least trying to do the right thing .
not only is the script weak , on a whole the acting is horrid
thanks to a large amount of the main cast .
judy greer is undeniably awful as her one dimensional , annoying character , as she overacts every line she has .
also on the bad side of acting is julie benz , almost falling to the annoying factor that greer delivers .
on the positive side of acting , rose mcgowan performs well here , but does n't match her wickedly clever performance as " tatum " , in 1996 's scream .
mcgowan 's role is annoying , but this only adds to the film .
she is wickedly mean , and even though she a well - written character , you downright hate her .
faring even better than mcgowan is rebecca gayheart , who is always exceptionally believable as her roles .
when the script feeds her a one or two dimensional character , she turns it into three , always putting strong emotion and power into her roles .
gayheart is n't given as much to do here as she was in 1998 's urban legend , but you can still get a strong taste of her acting skills in jawbreaker .
jawbreaker drifts and mianders different sub plots throughout , hardly throwing anything for the viewer to get absorbed in .
we get way off of the topic of the jawbreaker incident , and get into things that do n't have anything to do with the actual film .
the beginning and ending are strong , it 's just the middle that needs a lot of help .
during the body of the movie , it is undeniably repetitive , never progressing towards a conclusion .
nothing to grab the viewer 's interest is around , and the same , extremely annoying song plays over and over again .
jawbreaker tries to get off on the same time of humor used in the 1995 film clueless , but falls flat .
the few gags that actually work die off quickly and die off with a bang .
all in all , a horrible disappointment .
the bottom line : the tagline reads , " even the sweetest candies are sour as death inside .
"
yes , that is too true .
no matter how good this film may have looked , it fails to deliver .
Solution: N