Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Thomas Hardy? Not even Oliver Hardy!

After two hours of watching it, I still don't know what it was about. Yes, the scenery is fantastic, but a National Geographic film would have done more.I applaud the acting of Milla Jovovich, and Nastassja Kinski. But, the kudos reviewers have given to Peter Mullen would have been better deserved if this were a silent movie. I hardly heard anything he said and there are no English subtitles offered on the dvd. As for Wes Bentley, that's acting? He kept the same expression when he was having sex as when he was having a gun pointed at him, or a co-worker being blown to "Kingdom Come" (that's a pun based on the movie). He makes Clint Eastwood look like Laurence Olivier.The film is supposedly based on a Thomas Hardy book, but very loosely based, and the scriptwriters should have at least used Cliff Notes to have learned more about the story and the character development. They obviously fell asleep after the first couple of chapters and made up the rest.