Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: ruine

"The Ruins" is cheap and sadistic storytelling with a downward trajectory of a narrative that just dips lower and lower. As a reader, even if you're not rooting for an outright happy ending, on some level you hope to see some kind of curveball thrown at you, and to witness a glimmer of hope that the situation is not as hopeless as it seems. The Ruins is the horror equivalent of the worst type of contemporary fiction, meant to do nothing much more than bum you out -- if Smith was put in charge of writing "Star Wars", Luke, Leia and Han would have been crushed in the garbage compactor on the Death Star.