Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Sean Penn should have stayed at Ridgemont High

Other reviews give a good overview of the plot, such as it is. The acting by Jack Nicholson and David Morse is superb as always, but their best efforts can't save this disjointed, pretentious film full of existentialist garbage. This is one of those films that never seems to want to get to the point! I thought it appropriate at the end when Nicholson and Morse were crying together: I think they might have been glad this movie was finally over so they could then use their talents for a director who actually knows what to do with talent when he sees it. Sean Penn, go back to being surfer dude; it suits you better.