Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Far From an Epic Epic

Mounting this sweeping saga may have been a logistical triumph, but it makes for a soggy movie. Dire dialogue, incorporating great slabs of expository speechifying that would be laughable if it weren't so dull -- Roman princes and pro-consuls giving each other redundant history lessons on the glory of Rome (for the edification, of course, of the audience) -- characters that were Hollywood cliches for toga epics by 1964, and legions endlessly prancing around on horseback all conspire to emphasize Sophia Loren's sullen demeanor. Maybe in her youth, and in her native language, she was a competent actor, but English dialogue and the burden of being one of the great beauties of the age seem consistently to have reduced her to displaying the emotional range of a bad case of constipation.