Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: a populist statement

The movie is very good, not excellent. Spacek and Gibson are both lovable, in different ways of course. Historically the movie is kind of flimsy. There are things in in it that could be the 1930s, other htings that are more like the 1980s and 1990s, and the blend is not convincing. We are sopposed to see a kind of merging of oppressed factory workers and oppresed rural folk, 'the people' against heartless forces that do not respect their dignity. Dramatically, the film works, especially the epic struggle against floodwaters.