Desert Dancer

It is montage heavy and toe-curlingly naive.

It strives to be a rousing tale of rebellion, but the over-earnest result is more slow shuffle than kicky capoeira.

There would seem to be only one thing that the act of dancing cannot free the characters in Desert Dancer from, and that's the movie they're in.

Contains important messages about human rights, cultural liberty and the significance of artistic expression but, despite the real-life source material, is weighed down with clichés.