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Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: every visual joke is milked , every set-up obvious and lengthy , every punchline predictable . there's no energy . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: apparently writer-director attal thought he need only cast himself and his movie-star wife sitting around in their drawers to justify a film . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: after the setup , the air leaks out of the movie , flattening its momentum with about an hour to go . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: this is a poster movie , a mediocre tribute to films like them ! ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: at three hours and with very little story or character development , there is plenty of room for editing , and a much shorter cut surely would have resulted in a smoother , more focused narrative without sacrificing any of the cultural intrigue . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: a bit too derivative to stand on its own as the psychological thriller it purports to be . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: a crude teen-oriented variation on a theme that the playwright craig lucas explored with infinitely more grace and eloquence in his prelude to a kiss . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the film's darker moments become smoothed over by an overwhelming need to tender inspirational tidings , especially in the last few cloying moments . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: if you recognize zeus ( the dog from snatch ) it will make you wish you were at home watching that movie instead of in the theater watching this one . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: abysmally pathetic ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: this is the kind of movie that you only need to watch for about thirty seconds before you say to yourself , 'ah , yes , here we have a bad , bad , bad movie . ' ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: shanghai ghetto should be applauded for finding a new angle on a tireless story , but you might want to think twice before booking passage . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: plays like a checklist of everything rob reiner and his cast were sending up . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: there's too much forced drama in this wildly uneven movie , about a young man's battle with his inescapable past and uncertain future in a very shapable but largely unfulfilling present . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: it's at once laughable and compulsively watchable , in its committed dumbness . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: all the sensuality , all the eroticism of a good vampire tale has been , pardon the pun , sucked out and replaced by goth goofiness . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: a cross between blow and boyz n the hood , this movie strives to be more , but doesn't quite get there . good performances keep it from being a total rehash . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the screenplay is hugely overwritten , with tons and tons of dialogue -- most of it given to children . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: troll the cult section of your local video store for the real deal . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: at times , the movie looks genuinely pretty . your nightmares , on the other hand , will be anything but . not even felinni would know what to make of this italian freakshow . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: elmo touts his drug as being 51 times stronger than coke . if you're looking for a tale of brits behaving badly , watch snatch again . it's 51 times better than this . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: it's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in slackers or their antics amusing , let alone funny . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: despite its promising cast of characters , big trouble remains a loosely tied series of vignettes which only prove that 'zany' doesn't necessarily mean 'funny . ' ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: both shrill and soporific , and because everything is repeated five or six times , it can seem tiresomely simpleminded . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: does not go far enough in its humor or stock ideas to stand out as particularly memorable or even all that funny . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: neither revelatory nor truly edgy--merely crassly flamboyant and comedically labored . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: just about everyone involved here seems to be coasting . there are a few modest laughs , but certainly no thrills . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: fails so fundamentally on every conventional level that it achieves some kind of goofy grandeur . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: there's a persistent theatrical sentiment and a woozy quality to the manner of the storytelling , which undercuts the devastatingly telling impact of utter loss personified in the film's simple title . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: while howard's appreciation of brown and his writing is clearly well-meaning and sincere , the movie would be impossible to sit through were it not for the supporting cast . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: a preposterous , prurient whodunit . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: go , girls , right down the reality drain . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: boasting some of the most poorly staged and lit action in memory , impostor is as close as you can get to an imitation movie . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: can be classified as one of those 'alternate reality' movies . . . except that it would have worked so much better dealing in only one reality . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: predictable and cloying , though brown sugar is so earnest in its yearning for the days before rap went nihilistic that it summons more spirit and bite than your average formulaic romantic quadrangle . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: . . . unlikable , uninteresting , unfunny , and completely , utterly inept . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the film is so busy making reference to other films and trying to be other films that it fails to have a heart , mind or humor of its own . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: an imponderably stilted and self-consciously arty movie . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: muddled , melodramatic paranormal romance is an all-time low for kevin costner . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: too clumsy in key moments . . . to make a big splash . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: just a bunch of good actors flailing around in a caper that's neither original nor terribly funny . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: `matrix'-style massacres erupt throughout . . . but the movie has a tougher time balancing its violence with kafka-inspired philosophy . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: at least it's a fairly impressive debut from the director , charles stone iii . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: it all unfolds predictably , and the adventures that happen along the way seem repetitive and designed to fill time , providing no real sense of suspense . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: wanker goths are on the loose ! run for your lives ! ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: why would anyone cast the magnificent jackie chan in a movie full of stunt doubles and special effects ? ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: a grating , emaciated flick . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: unambitious writing emerges in the movie , using a plot that could have come from an animated-movie screenwriting textbook . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: presents a good case while failing to provide a reason for us to care beyond the very basic dictums of human decency . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: we have poignancy jostling against farce , thoughtful dialogue elbowed aside by one-liners , and a visual style that incorporates rotoscope animation for no apparent reason except , maybe , that it looks neat . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: . . . unbearably lame . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: according to the script , grant and bullock's characters are made for each other . but you'd never guess that from the performances . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the animation merely serves up a predictable , maudlin story that swipes heavily from bambi and the lion king , yet lacks the emotional resonance of either of those movies . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: ararat feels like a book report ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: steve oedekerk is , alas , no woody allen . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: a lot like the imaginary sport it projects onto the screen -- loud , violent and mindless . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: an amalgam of the fugitive , blade runner , and total recall , only without much energy or tension . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the acting is amateurish , the cinematography is atrocious , the direction is clumsy , the writing is insipid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: shows that jackie chan is getting older , and that's something i would rather live in denial about ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: with miscast leads , banal dialogue and an absurdly overblown climax , killing me softly belongs firmly in the so-bad-it's-good camp . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: alas , the black-and-white archival footage of their act showcases pretty mediocre shtick . ### Response:
negative
Below is a statement. Write a response that appropriately conveys the sentiment of the statement in one of the following options: negative or positive. ### Instruction: the slapstick is labored , and the bigger setpieces flat . ### Response:
negative