Given that rugged Kevin Costner is a divorced flier who's just quit the US armed forces and gone to see his aged friend Anthony Quinn, a ruthless Mexican power broker and man of violence, with a beautiful, unhappy wife (Madeleine Stowe), would you need over two hours to tell the ensuing story? Indeed would you tell it at all? 'A woman like that ... ' mutters Quinn. 'I do almost anything to keep her.' The biggest mystery, though, is that the two leading characters ever thought they could get away with a love affair under the nose of such a man. It needs a special chemistry, giving off heatwaves of passion, to overcome these improbabilities, but every time Costner and Stowe are together on screen, the film goes to sleep. The violence and sleaze that vein the story are more successful than the eroticism, though, with good support work from Miguel Ferrer (son of José), Sally Kirkland, James Gammon and Joe Santos. Be warned: after more than two hours, the film still doesn't really have much of an ending.

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