He cornily suggests that the tune is snatched from songbirds twittering on Havana's streets.

It is not without flaws, most notably cramped space compounded by intrusive display tables that cornily resemble looms.

On Jones's performance, they noticed how he was "dead-on as the taskmaster instructor who cornily singles out Cage for rough treatment".

A monotoned, badly paced, cornily written, unexciting (despite its most desperate efforts), predictable, high-pitch squeal of a drama.

Mark Kermode said of the film in The Guardian as 'the set-ups are familiar, the characters well worn and the film-makers' message (we are all victims) writ cornily large.

The newspaper headlines cornily shout: "BAKED APPLE"; "HELTER SWELTER"; "QUE CALOR!"