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In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
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plot :
jet li is a chinese cop asked to help some french policemen nab a bad guy .
but one thing leads to another , and the next thing you know
, li 's being chased by the same french cops with whom he was supposed to be working .
a lot of ass - kicking , face - whippings , gun fights
and . . . okay , a little more ass - kicking ensues .
critique : very cool !
now here 's a movie that gives you exactly what you 're looking for
, if what you 're looking for is kickass action , a palpable good cop / bad cop story line , some hardcore stunts and jet li slam - dunking everyone in sight !
the film also moves fast ( a mere 95 minutes ) , develops a certain " cute " chemistry between fonda and li , has nice surroundings
( paris , baby ! )
and gives us one of the best bad guys that i 've seen all year .
tcheky karyo is the devil incarnate in this film .
he is pure evil .
they should have called this movie bad lieutenant 2 as keitel has nothing on this man .
what a great , great monster !
my favorite line of tcheky 's was when li was explaining the whole " kiss of the dragon " thing to him
and he cut him off by saying " kiss my ass !
" pure action movie poetry .
anyway , other than him , jet li also handled his " acting " pretty well in this film , with very little real dialogue to say , but enough to make us believe his character .
actually , just looking into the man 's eyes generally tells you a lot .
fonda was also pretty good , despite playing one of the most trashy and abused women that i have seen in quite some time , but i still felt kinda bad for her
, so i guess she did her job
okay .
but in the end , nobody goes to see this kind of movie for oscar performances .
we go to see jet li movies because we want to see jet li kicking a lot of ass from side to side , and this film delivers gangbusters on that front .
and yes . . .
they have no wire - fu in this movie .
. .
i say again . . .
no wire - work , no bullshit stunts with li floating around in mid - air for over a minute .
it 's all straight action , fist to fist , boot to face and all around cool stunts .
if that 's what you 're looking for ,
i do n't see how you will be disappointed with this film .
yes , it 's not very original in plot ( just take luc besson 's own la femme nikita and mix in plenty of his own the professional et voila ! ) , does have an annoying hip - hoppy soundtrack that just got on my nerves after a while ( i also would have gotten rid of the whole acupuncture thang . . . ) and will have anyone not willing to restrain their disbelief , rolling their eyes all over the place .
but was i entertained ?
thoroughly .
does the film feature more gunplay , martial arts and over - the - top kills that most recent action flicks ?
yes , again .
does this sound interesting to you ?
well , the answer to that question is entirely up to you .
one thing that i would definitely recommend is , as jet li pointed out himself on his website , that you leave the kids at home for this one .
in fact , you might even wanna
leave yourself if you ca n't handle the more violent of sequences .
all in all , a rippin ' , roarin ' fun time !
where 's joblo coming from ?
black mask ( 5/10 )
- blade ( 7/10 ) - la femme nikita
( 8/10 ) - lethal weapon 4 ( 7/10 ) - the matrix ( 8/10 ) -
the professional ( 9/10 ) - romeo must die ( 3/10 ) - rush hour ( 7/10 ) - shanghai noon ( 6/10 )
answer:
P

question:
"
the 13th warrior " comes at the end of as summer where we 've already experienced man eating sharks ( " deep blue sea " ) , man eating crocodiles ( " lake placid " ) and even a man hunting witch ( " the blair witch project " ) .
now , " the 13th warrior " presents a tribe of flesh eating men who believe that they are bears .
the story , if that 's what you want to call it , follows ahmed ibn fahdlan ( antonio banderas ) an arabian poet who falls in love with his king 's wife and is banished from his home land .
he then travels to the land of the vikings and becomes an ambassador to them .
eventually the vikings are called upon to protect the people of the village who are being hunted by the flesh eating men .
thirteen warriors are chosen to go on the mission , and as you guessed it , ahmed is chosen as the thirteenth .
he 's not a warrior , and at first not well accepted by the vikings , but as the movie advances he 'll have to prove himself both on and off the battlefield .
that 's basically the entire plot .
there is also a romantic subplot that has been so badly mishandled and , one assumes , drastically cut that you begin to wonder why the filmmakers did n't just edit out all of the scenes attaining to that part of the story .
instead they chose to leave just enough of those scenes in to annoy the viewer .
the film is basically non- stop action and when it pauses and tries to develop a story
it becomes a laughing stock .
the battle scenes , although well choreographed , are not involving and not the least bit exciting .
we do n't get to know any of the characters
and so we do n't care who lives and who dies .
the film , which wants to be beowolf , comes across more as a failed action - adventure story aspiring to epic proportions but not achieving it on any levels .
it was directed by john mctiernan who 's , " the thomas crown affair " is also playing in theaters currently .
and it 's not that mctiernan worked simultaneously on both films but that , " the 13th warrior " was placed on the shelf for so long with the studio just waiting for a time to dump it on audiences .
it belongs back on the shelf .
answer:
N

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when bulworth ended , i allowed myself a sigh of relief : ?
it is possible for me to enjoy political satire . ?
there have been several recent political films that did n't do a whole lot for me -- wag the dog , for instance , i found to be an intelligent but heartless film , while primary colors is unbearable and unwatchable in its awfulness . ?
bulworth is a far better film than these , both in its execution and lasting impression .
?
it 's a tremendously funny and intelligent picture , but it also has an emotional center -- writer / director / star warren beatty
allows the audience to identify with his character , and , in turn , we like him and actually care about the story . ?
beatty plays incumbent democratic senator jay billington bulworth ; the film opens and we see bulworth sobbing as he watches his television spots over and over again . ?
he has n't slept in days , nor has he eaten , and , almost instantaneously , he goes insane . ?
he 's not stark raving mad ( not outright , anyway ) , but he 's definitely bonkers .
?
it 's the final weekend of his campaign , and his assistant , murphy ( oliver platt ) has written him a speech to feed to a group of black people in a church in the ghetto . ?
bulworth begins the speech , but suddenly goes off track and just starts being honest . ?
"
you mean , " one lady asks , " the democratic party does n't care about the african american community ? " ?
" well , " he shouts , laughing , " is n't that obvious ?
"
the story is propelled by a device in which bulworth puts out a contract on his own life ( he muses later that it 's a bad thing to make decisions when you 're suicidal ) ; he keeps seeing a man in sunglasses ( graham beckel ) whom he believes to be the hitman . ?
bulworth also meets nina ( halle berry ) with whom he becomes infatuated . ?
suddenly , in the short span of this weekend , bulworth 's
no - nonsense " truth in politics " methods become a national sensation , and he shoots ahead in the polls despite the fact that he 's appearing on television wearing gang clothes and spewing more profanity than coherent sentences .
beatty 's work on both sides of the camera is excellent . ?
his script and direction are both extremely sharp , as is the surprisingly strong characterization of bulworth himself . ?
here is a man who 's reached his limit , and his way of lashing back is by screwing over the entire political structure . ?
i like
that the film does n't take a clear shot at any of the political parties or affiliations , but at politics in general and how everything is run by the rich ( although the anti - rich sentiments do get a bit tiresome by the end of the film ) . ?
some of the segments are simply hilarious , such as a lengthy rap that he delivers at a luncheon dedicated to him . ?
much of the film is completely absurd , but that 's the fun part about it .
?
it 's an angry , serious film at the core , but the package that beatty has created is so much more accessible
than recent attempts in the genre . ?
what adds to this feeling is beatty 's portrayal of bulworth ; this is a performance that deserves recognition on a higher scale . ?
beatty is so much fun to watch here -- he 's always funny , but he 's also subtle in ways that flesh out his character without dialogue or hugely noticeable actions . ?
beatty is so good that bulworth , despite his shortcomings as a human being , is an entirely sympathetic and likable character almost from the beginning .
the supporting cast is vast and colorful .
? berry is luminous , as always , and adds to her repertoire of solid supporting roles . ?
don
cheadle has a good role as a drug dealer who uses gun - toting toddlers to do his dirty work .
?
oliver
platt is an actor who should be careful , for someday i fear he may induce a heart attack with the intensity of his acting ( though he 's very funny to watch ) . ?
paul sorvino adds the southern accent to his list of mastered inflections .
is bulworth offensive ? ?
i suppose some may see it that way . ?
i was n't offended by the film , but then again , i hardly care about politics . ?
i think that people who find this film offensive will just be blindsided by the honesty of the story .
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the film is n't perfect , of course -- the ending did n't quite work for me , and the a few of the scenes between bulworth and nina feel forced ( although the eclectic dance sequence is fantastic ) .
?
but these are minor quibbles about an otherwise brilliant film . ?
bulworth is a smart , uproariously funny picture that proves to me that political satire can scratch far deeper than the surface . ?
answer:
P