Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A couple of good performances; nothing else to recommend

Patricia Clarkson is always good, and she is great here as Carrie's religious nut of a mother. Emilie de Ravin (sp?) is good at getting us to hate her character, Carrie's main tormenter.All Angela Bettis does as Carrie is tremble and perspire a lot whenever she's about to do some telekinetic thing, while Kandyse McClure is merely competent.The fireballs that come down on the Whites' house when Carrie is a kid are just goofy and cheesy, not scary at all.Adapted or not, this one just doesn't make it. The Sissy Spacek version is the all-time classic. See that one instead.