The world's fastest Indian ****

Gentle, funny, moving, inspiring and only occasionally a little cheesy. Mr Hopkins pulls off an acceptable (to a person born in Scotland and has lived in Yorkshire and London) accent portraying the slightly aged, penurious New Zealander, Burt Munro, who went after the motor bike land speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats in the sixties. Bit of a feel good movie and some great sequences. At one point we see the hero testing his low slung bike, haring along a straight bit of rural Utah tarmac, passing a sedantry traffic cop in his car at the side of the road like a bullet. Sparked into life, the policeman sets off and eventually tracks down Mr Munro standing by his bike scratching his chin reflectively.

"Can you tell me how fast you think you were going when you past me back there?" asks the cop.
"About 160?" suggests the old man, disappointed