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Estevez uses Bobby’s words too much, but you can’t blame him, because Kennedy’s compassion and sympathy for the underprivileged shines.

Dude, what's the point of this movie?

There is a breadth of quality about the acting, including a fine performance from Sela Ward as Ben's estranged wife - making a lot more of her role than her meagre scripting suggests.

The writers have serious fun with black-on-white prejudice.

The film oozes bad taste like pus from a poultice.

Everything has a thrown-together feel, as the characters are tossed from romcom situations to action set-pieces and back again with no thought to applying any sort of grace notes to ease the transition.

The story of Stanislas Petrov is one that needs to be told and The Man Who Saved The World is a near perfect telling of it.

The script lacks any kind of wit and the plot is so careful not to dilute the treacly sentiment that it's not exciting.

Catch one episode of this, and you are likely to be left in awe... catch more than on and you will start noticing the grinding repetitions.

It's not long before it all becomes delightfully self-mocking.

All quite predictable, but glossily done.