Like Hearts of Darkness, this documentary follows the making of a movie on which more than a million feet of film was reportedly exposed, but sadly Le Mans is no Apocalypse Now.

There is real poignancy here in the reminiscences of McQueen's former wife Neile Adams and his son, Chad. Like the Le Mans movie itself, the doc sometimes loses its focus but it is beautifully made.

Beginning with its punning title, Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans proves to be a clunky film about the actor's obsession with motor racing, and his incredibly expensive attempt to make Le Mans.

The race sequences, shot with car-mounted cameras, are dazzling, but otherwise it's a bore. Mind you, the documentary's suggestion that McQueen stuck to safe fare like The Getaway and The Towering Inferno thereafter is wrong.