Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: I usually love De Niro, but...

This movie was awful. De Niro is a media savy cop, who, with the help of an arson investigator (played by Ed Burns), is hunting down a couple of Eastern European criminals. The criminals decide they can get away with anything if they can appeal to the media. If the intention of this movie was to poke fun of the media, then it seemed to take itself too seriously. If it was a serious movie, it was just too over the top to be enjoyable. I kept trying to find something to enjoy, but just couldn't. If you want to watch a better movie with De Niro, try "City by the Sea".