Spare a thought for Kevin Costner whose career seems now to comprise one step forward and one back … this is the backward step.

Sometimes Hollywood can rise above itself and come up, as here, with a deeply involving film which manages to take in a wide range of emotions and plotlines.

The big guy from Austria likes the sound of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Pumping political iron will have to wait, though, while the actor revisits roles as the world’s favourite cyborg from the future and a family man-superspy.