Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: LONG IS TOO LONG

THE WALL is one of those stories you expect from writers like Ernest Hemingway as man faces off with the forces of nature. Jeff Long's paean is way toooo long; it would have been better as a short story. It seems like it takes forever for anything to happen and the characters while constructed nicely are not that likeable or involving. Perhaps as a movie, it might be more entertaining to watch than read all the technical terms and flashback diversions. As it is, though, THE WALL is just not that exciting, and its ending, though surprising, seems anticlimactic.