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: in the grand scheme of mel gibson movies , payback was better than conspiracy theory , but not as good as braveheart or lethal weapon .
in other words , it 's a decent couple of hours of entertainment , but 20 years from now if a they compile a list of mel gibson 's greatest hits , payback probably wo n't be on it .
gibson plays a crook who gets double crossed by his partner after they heist a payroll .
mel 's partner needed the money to pay off a mob debt .
so he puts a couple of bullets in mel , leaving him for dead , and goes on to pay off his creditors .
but , mel is n't dead
( it would be a real short movie if he was ) and he certainly is n't happy .
to make matters worse , he wants his money back and is willing to go to any lengths to accomplish this feat .
his ex partner has already used it to pay off the mobsters , so mel goes after the mob to get it back .
payback is often a very violent film . to its credit
, there are a few scenes that could have been very graphic , but the director ( i 'm not sure which one -- more about that in a second ) made the choice to let the audience use their imagination instead of subjecting us to the usual gratuitous gore found in many films .
the film appears a bit disjointed in places , which is understandable considering producer / star gibson was n't thrilled with how the film turned out and wanted parts of it re - shot .
when the director refused , another one was brought in to do the re - shoot .
so as a result while the final product is apparently better than the original ( although personally i would love to see the original version for comparisons sake ) it does get a bit of a choppy feel to it towards the end .
it 's always tough to make a film where the main character is a villain , unless that person has some redeeming qualities .
in this case , gibson 's character has few redeeming qualities .
but hey , its mel , so even when he is killing people in cold blood we are still rooting for him .
my guess is that if that you put some other johnny bananas actor in this role , the audience would not be quite as responsive .
gibson is gibson , whether he is playing a suicidal cop or a stone cold killer ,
he does a good job .
he almost guarantees that no matter what else happens in the rest of the movie at least the audience is going to get one good performance .
this time out mel is surrounded by a good supporting cast , including maria bello ( as his love interest ) , william devane and kris kristofferson ( as mod bosses ) .
the man who steals the show and unfortunately does n't have a real big part is james coburn ( as yet another mobster ) .
if i had one big disappointment in this film , it would be that coburn did n't have a bigger role .
in the end , payback is a fairly solid action thriller , just not in quite the same league as some of mel gibson 's other work .
A:
P