This is an object lesson on how to make a mint with a bad movie: give it lots of music, lush locations, glitzy sets and charismatic stars in Tom Cruise and Bryan Brown.

It's a tired old story about a cocky young hustler (Cruise) who finally realises the error of his ways.

Long stretches of painfully risible dialogue feature, but never mind, as the cocktail 'choreography' between Cruise and Brown is terrific.

And with stars like these behind the bar, who needs a script?