Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Unredemptive message, but some honest material on childhood trauma

I watched this movie on a recommendation, and was disappointed. Found it mostly sickening and over-the-top, which, I suppose, is what the directors hoped for. Of course, the movie was shot well, the acting was superb (the guy who played Sweeney was brilliant), the tension excellent...but still.Largely an awful message: a traumatized, unfairly imprisoned guy takes out his anger and revenge on strangers who never did him any harm--by murdering them. Yet the basic one who did him the real harm, his father, gets let off the hook easy. Sounds so much like the overall message our whole society promulgates as far as blaming parents: blame anyone else!That said, if Sweeney Todd really wanted to do the world a service he would have figured out how to grieve. But it's a lot easier to be a raging violent child in an adult's body than it is to be a self-reflective, grieving adult.Thus: this movie was a pointless failure.Don't watch it.