Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Great acting, character development , scenery & music.

Julia Ormond is amazing again in another very different incarnation of herself as Smilla the incredibly prickly ice princess. Wow! Everyone in the supporting cast is superb. Gabriel Byrne who usually plays cynical and tough does a nice job as a gentle, vunerable foil for Ormond's character. Smilla's character and the plot beautifully & slowly evolve(European style)but Ormond makes it feel like the movie is going to be over too soon and we'll have to leave the strange ice lady in her alien(to us) worlds of wintery Copenhagen and frigid Greenland. The whole first 3/4ths of the film is wonderful on every level--drama, mystery, psychology and romance. The last 1/4th of the movie is as if the writers or the director couldn't handle both action and drama/psychology at the same time. But who cares when most of this film has such outstanding acting, directing, scenery, atmosphere and an incredible musical score.