KEVIN Costner has made a string of memorable films, from the convoluted thrills of No Way Out and high adventure in The Untouchables, to the gentle Bull Durham and the award-winning Dances with Wolves.
Indeed, you'd be hard pressed to name a bad Costner movie . . . if it wasn't for Revenge (Pearl 9.45 pm, Original Running Time 120 mins), a ponderous love story that fails to captivate.
Costner plays a newly retired navy pilot who visits old pal, Tiburon Mendes, (Anthony Quinn) an ageing powerbroker whose life he once saved. Mendes also happens to be an ex-gangster which you'd think would put Costner off messing with his young wife (Madeleine Stowe).
But no, soon Costner and Stowe are enjoying an illicit quickie and surprise, surprise, Mendes ain't happy.
Revenge is part of Pearl's Be My Valentine campaign to raise money for the Children's Cancer Foundation. Donations have now reached $197,000, almost twice the target figure.
NARROW Margin (World 9.30pm, ORT 97 mins) may not have the clout of Costner but it's a better movie than Revenge. Gene Hackman is outstanding as an assistant district-attorney escorting a frightened murder witness (Anne Archer) through the Canadian Rockies.