Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Overrated and nauseating

Generally, a regimmicking of usually-better vigilante/cop action and sci-fi movies; nihilistic and glib comedy with a tacked-on happy ending claiming satire on capitalism (must film-makers and critics rationalise so?); gaping plot holes; generally unremarkable characters, plot and performances (the friendship between Weller and Allen being a rare exception); partially enlivened by slick direction. The appalling sequence in which a jeering gang trap and nearly-dismember Murphy is as stomach-turning and needlessly explicit as anything I've seen in any movie and several other sequences, such as Verhoeven lingeringly recording a man's melting and annihilation in toxic waste, which would be as offensive if not ludicrous, show, as in most of Verhoeven's Hollywood films, a sadistic and pornographic artistry cynically catering to the box office. Insane that this gets by with an R-rating while less offensive violence or simulated sex gets NC-17.