In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
One example is below.
Q: 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 )
A: N
Rationale: The phrases used in the review convey a negative sentiment (e.g. "presents it in a very bad package").
Q: synopsis : a maniac , crazed by virulent microphage ,
slaughters more than twenty people , including a street gang and heavily - armed troops , with a small knife .
even with a handgun , however , he ca n't take out the two cops who are after him , despite having shot one of them a total of seven times .
comments : the most notable aspect of adrenalin : fear the rush is that it marks a striking career move for natasha henstridge .
not only does she manage to keep all her clothes on ( her trademark in earlier films such as species and maximum risk was to strip naked as often as possible ) , but she actually puts on even more clothes as the film progresses .
this will probably disappoint many henstridge fans , but i welcome the change because henstridge is an attractive , capable actress who deserves less exploitative roles ( though , i admit ,
it does n't show in this mess ) .
henstridge , just like every other actor in the film , delivers a wooden performance in this monumental turkey .
( the cast also includes christopher lambert , who has appeared in the highlander and mortal kombat films . )
how on earth this movie got two big - name stars to appear in it is beyond me .
adrenalin :
fear the rush is set in boston ten years in the future ( 2007 ) .
boston has changed dramatically in those ten years .
it is now home to a bunch of interred foreigners and policed by cops who drive around in small cars with " policia " printed on their doors .
some guy has a really bad virus , and he 's killing people because of it .
so , the brave good guys ( lambert and henstridge ) go after him .
that 's it .
76 minutes never seemed so long .
this is a drawn - out chase scene through dimly - lit abandoned buildings turned into an entire movie .
the plot development is nil ; we learn absolutely nothing about lambert 's character and very little about henstridge 's character .
the dialogue is littered with unnecessary obscenities and concerns mindnumbingly idiotic arguments over who will go down the next dark corridor / tunnel
/ airduct next and who will carry the flashlight .
a subplot does exist involving henstridge 's character 's illegal attempt to get her son out of boston . in her opening monologue , a monologue which sounds as though henstridge was reading from cue cards , we learn that she has gone to great lengths to secure a fake passport for her son .
twenty minutes into the film , i wondered if the movie would have been better if it focused on this plot .
in a defining scene of the movie , however , i changed my mind .
this fake passport drops to the ground .
lambert 's cop immediately recognizes it as a fraud from six feet away .
must not have been a good fake .
this emphasizes another fault with the film .
things just defy common sense .
lambert 's cop , for instance , is shot seven times , yet he is still able to talk and slide about .
adrenalin : fear the rush ends in a trite manner that does n't seem to even fit the mood that the filmmakers were trying for .
i found myself rather bored with this film , which will disappoint both sci - fi / horror fans and fans of henstridge and lambert .
do n't fear the rush .
fear the movie .
watch something else .
A:
N