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

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warner brothers ; rated pg-13 ( mild violence , sexual situations ) ; 132 minutes director : luis mandoki screenplay : gerald di pego ( from the novel by nicholas sparks ) cast : kevin costner , robin wright - penn , paul newman , illeana douglas , robbie coltrane , jesse james , john savage .
review by :
geoff berkshire
i 'm not an overly cynical guy .
there have been many glossy hollywood romances that have carried me away with their romanticism over the years .
however , i have my limits and i also have standards .
this brings us to the subject at hand : message in a bottle , the big ticket romance that warner brothers ' unleashed upon the movie going public just in time for valentine 's day .
the story , what little of it that there is , involves boring chicago tribune reporter theresa osborne ( robin wright - penn ) dealing with her recent divorce and trying to raise her young son jason ( jesse james ) .
during a brief stay somewhere in new england she finds the titular message in a bottle while on a morning run by the ocean .
the letter , written to a mystery woman named catherine , instantly captivates her .
upon her return , theresa shares it with her best friend lina ( illeana douglas ) , her boss charlie ( robbie coltrane ) , and the entire city of chicago ( the newspaper publishes an article about it ) .
it turns out that the message was written by grieving widower garret blake ( kevin costner ) and so theresa travels to north carolina and tracks him down .
he turns out to have a colorful father ( paul newman ) but is otherwise perfectly dull and overly obsessed with sailing .
this is somehow attractive to theresa and the two begin their awkward courtship .
of course she does n't tell him that she found his letter , she wants to but the rules of this type of film require him to find out later ( preferably right after they first make love ) .
this way garret can get very angry and the relationship can be threatened .
the discovery of the message and garret 's discovery that theresa discovered the message are really the only two noteworthy events that happen during the nearly two and a quarter hour running time of this film .
there 's a truly lame subplot about garret 's relationship with his dead wife 's family ( he gets into a bar fight with her brother , played by john savage ) and then the necessary tear - jerking ending .
a fun way to pass the time is to take bets on exactly who will die , although it becomes pretty clear by the second reel .
the actual death sequence is one of the most ridiculously forced , and unintentionally humorous , sequences filmed since .
. .
well , since costner 's the postman ( 1997 ) .
message in a bottle is one slow moving film .
last year audiences were offered endurance tests such as the horse whisperer and meet joe black but both of those films resemble jerry bruckheimer productions next to this .
they also had redeeming qualities in the form of quality performances and some stand out technical work .
message in a bottle has a decent enough cast but they 're fighting the material all the way , and losing badly .
costner and , especially , wright - penn are both likable and attractive enough to cheer for but their characters are simply too boring .
they also fail to generate any kind of real romantic chemistry .
the supporting players are given very little to do .
the reliable douglas is particularly wasted .
old pro newman gives his all and occasionally threatens to kick some life into this dead horse of a film .
a confrontational scene he has with costner near the end is especially well played .
however , too frequently he just reminds us how unexciting our lead characters are .
the film is very polished on the technical side to be sure but it only works to undercut the story .
gabriel yared , who previously set the romantic moods of the english patient ( 1996 ) and city of angels ( 1998 ) with his scores , overdoes it a bit here .
caleb deschanel 's camera makes everything look a little too beautiful .
do the offices of the chicago tribune really need to look heavenly ?
the editing by steven weisberg is troubling not only considering all that could have been cut out but is also simply messy at times .
the real offender here is screenwriter
gerald di pego .
working from a best- selling novel by nicholas sparks ( which i have not read but have been told is on the same literary level as the bridges of madison county ) , di pego creates one of the most uninspired scripts of recent times .
its strict adherence to clich ?
s brings to mind such disasters as i still know what you did last summer ( 1998 ) .
there simply is n't an original scene in this film .
the dialogue is rarely better than laughable and this is only accentuated by the excessively long pauses every character takes while speaking .
this is director mandoki 's first film since when a man loves a woman ( 1994 ) , the solid meg ryan / andy garcia romance .
he 's simply going through the motions with this .
message in a bottle is easily the worst of the several romantic offerings available in theaters at the moment and vies with what dreams may come ( 1998 ) as one of the most misguided romances of the decade .

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N

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late in down to you , the lead female character ( julia stiles ) states her greatest fear is having an " artificial conversation " with her boyfriend ( freddie prinze jr . ) .
the irony of this statement will not be lost on audience members who have not yet walked out , fallen asleep , or otherwise given up on this pathetic attempt at romantic comedy .
the film is a multi - million dollar testament to everything artificial .
filled with characters , motivation , plot and dialogue that ring fake and shallow at every step
this is an unquestionable disaster .
prinze plays a college student intent on playing the field until he falls for stiles ' freshman co - ed .
at first the movie seems to be an attempt to string along scenes with the sole purpose of out - doing the previous in how " cute " it can be .
the happy couple " psychoanalyze " each other ; they pick out a song because , as prinze 's dj mother ( lucie arnez ) explains , every couple needs a song ; he smells her shampoo ; she scratches his chest in the morning to let him know she wants to make love .
then , in standard romantic comedy style , things fall apart .
why ?
well , because they have to .
otherwise the couple ca n't make up and live ( presumably ) happily ever after .
down to you exists outside the realm of normal logic .
scenes do not connect to each other and it often seems to be attempting some sort of surrealism , but this is handled so poorly that everything comes off random and stupid instead .
a picnic scene involving the six key characters is just bizarre , not only for the stretched logic of these people hanging out together , or even knowing each other , but mostly because an unusual amount of screen time is dedicated to a goat .
the supporting characters are remarkably flat , and insultingly ridiculous as well .
stiles ' best friend ( rosario dawson ) is a pot head , prinze 's roommate ( shawn hatosy ) is a girl crazy fool who ca n't meet women , and then there are the porn stars ( zak orth and selma blair ) .
he is one of those famous porn stars who is frequently interviewed on television , does the college lecture circuit , and stars in high budget costume epic porns that are shot on film .
you know , the average porn star .
the costume epic idea gives him a reason to appear in a different ridiculous outfit everytime he 's on screen , the porn angle exists just so there can be a couple of stupid sex jokes .
she is a porn star mostly
so we know
she 's slutty , so
her very existence will make stiles jealous and prinze tempted .
attempts at drama ( which means julia is going to cry ) include a pregnancy scare and the big break up .
these characters are so insipid only the most forgiving viewer would be manipulated by these weak scenes .
what happened here ?
the cast is full of likable , promising , young actors ( stiles especially seems to be going places ) .
writer / director kris isacsson has simply given them material so weak not even seasoned pros could pull it off .
in fact the whole film feels like a reworking of last year 's extremely unpleasant the story of us , for teen audiences .
the direction is film - school - grad obvious .
it 's stylish in a hugely self conscious way which throws in split screen , a pointless parody of " cops , " characters walking into the flashbacks of other characters , and a hilariously cheesy airport meeting between prinze and stiles where all the extras move in fast motion while the couple moves in extreme slow motion .
plus , the whole story is told flashback style , narrated by prinze and stiles directly addressing the camera .
this is the second film in a row ( following wing commander ) starring freddie prinze jr . which should have premiered on the aisles of the local blockbuster but was likely saved from that fate due to the fluke success of she 's all that .
if he does n't start making better choices fast his future films wo n't be so lucky .

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N

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"
when you get out of jail , you can kill him .
" starring ashley judd , tommy lee jones , bruce greenwood .
rated r. double jeopardy is a lurid , prepostrous thriller that 's also one of the year 's most enjoyable .
it 's an uncompromisingly brutal , cheerfully anarchic , hyperactive actioner
that has a mission and never diverts from it .
there is not a moment here when the events on screen do n't have a direct bearing on the plot ; once the film gets going it never stops .
it has been branded as the female version of the fugitive and that 's probably a correct assessment of the plot , but the film itself has little in common with the 1993 andrew davis / harrison ford collaboration besides the presence of star tommy lee jones .
not even bothering with character introduction , director bruce beresford floors the gas pedal from the get - go and never finds the brake .
we meet , rather hastily , libby and nick parsons ( ashley judd and bruce greenwood , respectively ) a seemingly happy married couple , with a son matty , age 4 .
they go out on a sailboat one night , and after a period of some rockin ' sex , they go to sleep .
libby hears a strange noise , wakes up and discovers that she is covered with blood .
she follows a red trail to the upper deck , where she finds a knife and , out of astonishment , picks it up .
at that convenient moment , the coast guard shows up and libby is arrested .
her lawyer , a friend , puts up a defense in court , but though we know she is innocent , the evidence against her is too compelling .
her friend adopts her son and she goes to prison .
once in prison , she makes a phone call to her friend .
her friend gives her son the phone .
nick walks in the room .
little matty screams " daddy !
"
the phone goes dead .
libby realizes that the man she is imprisoned for killing is n't even dead .
she gets some advice from a prisoner / former lawyer , who tells her that since the state already convicted her of killing her husband , they ca n't convict her of the same crime again , meaning that when she gets paroled she can kill him and they ca n't touch her .
after a weirdly short amount of time , she gets out of parole .
she is sent to live at a house with other recent parolees , under the command of parole officer travis lehman ( tommy lee jones ) .
she sets out on a mission to find her husband and get her son back , which turns out to be much more difficult than anticipated .
she winds up tracking him all the way to new orleans where she finds out that he has long killed his girlfriend and her son 's " adopter " .
double jeopardy is based on an assumption that is legally false .
the law stating that nobody can be convicted twice for the same crime assumes that it is the same crime : same time , same place , same circumstances .
it 's not like it matters .
this is a rollickingly good thriller ; intense , exciting , fast and furious .
it 's silly alright , but this is the kind of film you just do n't question .
in some films , plausibility is everything .
double jeopardy , however , is not concerned with making sense : its sole purpose is to entertain , and it does .
judd helps the film tremendously in a difficult role .
this is her breakout box - office performance , and she is terrific .
she brings some emotion to what could have been a one - dimensional role , giving the movie a little soul to go along with its effective chase scenes and action set pieces .
tommy lee jones basically just reprises the role for which he won an oscar in the fugitive , but the movie makes good use of his stone - faced wit .
thankfully , too , double jeopardy refrains from developing a romance between libby and travis ; a subplot which doubtlessly would have interfered with the film 's story .
this is one of those movies where cops are the bad guys , and i took a sort of sick pleasure in that .
the sheer anarchy of the proceedings was nothing short of wonderful , as ashley judd kicks the crap out of every authority figure in the book .
after all the idealistic hollywood features featuring hero cops , deft fbi agents and the virtues of the american legal system , it 's great to see a movie that does n't so much demonstrate their fallacy as it delights in their failure .
double jeopardy is really good , but it is n't the kind of good that is remembered or recognized with awards .
it 's one of those movies better viewed with the brain turned off , otherwise , your brain will be busy ruining your experience .
this is a thriller that is n't concerned with being smart or plausible .
instead it diverts all attention to the action , which , this year , is second to none .

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P